Tragic News (by yag)
I got an email today that an old friend and a long time VFP MVP, Drew Speedie and his son Brent died on Friday while hiking in Yellowstone Park. Drew and I spent many years speaking at the same conferences all around the world – and he was one of the speakers that could invariably find something new and interesting to discuss in his sessions. His son, Brent, came to many of the conferences, and I remember him proofreading conferences reports written at European conferences for the Universal Thread.
Our entire team offers our condolences to Drew’s family. They’ll be missed.
UPDATE: We just got this information from Russ Swall at Drew's company:
We have built a memorial site for Drew and Brent. We will continue to add information as it becomes available. It also includes a forum and some photos. If you have pix you'd like to share, please send me an e-mail with a link to them or we can arrange to put your photos on that site.
http://drewspeediememorial.visionpace.com/Thanks to all who have contributed their experiences and condolences. We will be passing them along to Irene when she returns to Scottsdale.
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About YAG
Yair Alan Griver is the architect for the Microsoft.com community properties. As architect, he is responsible for creating a coherent underlying platform for properties that include blogs.msdn.com, forums.msdn.com, GotDotNet, chats and CodePlex. In addition to MSCOM architect, Alan is also responsible for the continued development of Visual FoxPro. Prior to the architect role, Alan was Group Manager for the Visual Studio Data group. As Group Manager, Alan’s teams produced the tools used inside of Visual Studio .NET, Office and SQL Server that surface data capabilities, as well as Visual FoxPro. Prior to this position, Alan was a Lead Program Manager and Community Evangelist for Visual Basic .NET, driving community interests into Visual Basic .NET. Before joining Microsoft, Alan was Chief Information Officer at GoAmerica, a publicly traded telecommunications (wireless internet) company, and co-founder and CIO of Flash Creative Management a business strategy and technology consulting company.
Alan is the author of five books on Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic, the creator of various development frameworks, and has developed database systems ranging into the thousands of users. He has spoken around the world on databases, object orientation and development team management issues, as well as XML and messaging-based applications.
