@Jon Let me know if you want me to connect the two of you.
I realized early on that people do not want to pay for any code. This is not just the case for Microsoft Access, it's a prevalent attitude across the internet, where there's a pervasive belief that everything should be free.
That is such a foolish notion it is hard to come to grips with.
Before the internet solved all our problems and ChatGP wrote all our code
, we relied on books. The books ranged in price between $30 and $60 which I considered to be pretty expensive back in the 90's but they usually came with CD's that included all the code and samples from the book. I used to spend hours at my favorite bookstore for technical books - Borders - and if I found a book that answered at least two of my current questions or offered a solution I knew would be useful in the future,, I bought it. The theory being, it was cheaper for me timewise to pay for the author's expertise and the CD than to spend my own time trying to figure out the solution by myself and if I didn't reward the authors for helping me, they would eventually stop. And they did. There are very few new Access books released each year and they were never actually profitable for the authors anyway, so they just stopped writing them.
Access developers, especially, seem to work alone so the internet is their source of help because they don't usually have even a single coworker to talk ideas through with. For most of my career I have had my own LLC and so worked for myself. Sure, I could get away with billing a client an extra 10 hours to solve a problem but if I could spend an hour at Borders to find the solution, I come out looking good and everyone is happy. I pay the author, the client pays me for a smaller amount of my time than he otherwise would have had to and the client thinks I'm a genius.
A lot of the examples I see out there posted for sale are less than $5 a pop. That is probably less than what you paid for coffee at Starbucks this morning. Others are significantly more expensive but even $200 for a working solution for something like simple security can save you a week's worth of coding and testing time. Your employer will probably even pay for it if you ask. Really people, do you want experts like Dan who was one of the more prolific and good content creators out there to pick up their ball and go home because you are too cheap to support their efforts?
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