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 Post subject: Noob (still) says Hi!
PostPosted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:12 pm 
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Real Name: Duke Normandin
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I'm a Mumps noob (or wannabe) from the Calgary, Alberta, Canada area. I stumbled onto Mumps sometime in 2007 - 2008 I think. I Dled Ray Newman's MV1, and with his kind help got it installed on my wife's OSX system. Since then, she's booted me off the machine, for hogging it too much ;)

I've been away from teaching myself Mumps for a some time now, although I still lurk the NG. I'm semi-retired from my career in the oil patch. I program as a hobby, especially web site development, first in Perl4 then PHP. I'm currently learning Ruby. I would dearly love to become somewhat proficient with Mumps. I like the idea of not having to use SQL! ;) plus I'm just attracted to this language! It would be cool, if I could be proficient enough to even be somebody's code-monkey. :))

Anyway, I'm old enough (64) to know when to shut my gob, and pay attention when someone is trying to teach me something. I hope this Forum will do just that! Thanks for the opportunity!

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 Post subject: Re: Noob (still) says Hi!
PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:43 pm 

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Welcome to mumpster dukester.


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 Post subject: Re: Noob (still) says Hi!
PostPosted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 12:37 pm 
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Did you get a chance to look at the MUMPS teaching pdf files that Terry posted about on this forum? It would be interesting to see if they are useful to a semi-noob as you profess to be.

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 Post subject: Re: Noob (still) says Hi!
PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 8:24 am 
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William Shatner wrote:
Welcome to mumpster dukester.


Thank you!

Nice to be on board. I'm not sure thought that this forum is for a noob wanting to learn MUMPS. I'm thinking that maybe MUMPSTER is more like a "MUMPS Pub" where MUMPS hackers hang out. :)

I'll find out soon enough I suppose.
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 Post subject: Re: Noob (still) says Hi!
PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 8:30 am 
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whitten wrote:
Did you get a chance to look at the MUMPS teaching pdf files that Terry posted about on this forum? It would be interesting to see if they are useful to a semi-noob as you profess to be.

David


I did! Haven't yet had a chance to review them.

I've been reading O'Kane introductory material on MUMPS.

As well, some time ago, Chris Bonnici gave me permission to "refresh" the HTML and some wording for the tutorials that he once shared at Geocities. I've been doing more work on them lately, and absorbing a lot in the process. I have to find a home for these tutorials when I'm done - after bouncing it off Chris again!
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 Post subject: Re: Noob (still) says Hi!
PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2011 2:37 pm 
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It is interesting that Chris Bonnici is still involved in MUMPS related stuff. I haven't heard his name for years. I seem to recall he had stuff on Geocities (now archived on Reocities, as I understand).

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 Post subject: Re: Noob (still) says Hi!
PostPosted: Thu May 12, 2011 10:53 am 
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whitten wrote:
It is interesting that Chris Bonnici is still involved in MUMPS related stuff. I haven't heard his name for years. I seem to recall he had stuff on Geocities (now archived on Reocities, as I understand).


I have no idea how involved Chris is with MUMPS these days. Yes! Geocities is where I originally found his tutorials.
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