Our user group exists to provide a friendly & helpful place for Access Developers both in the UK and world-wide. We remain committed to Microsoft Access as a powerful tool to build database applications for our clients and employers. Access is not going away (despite repeated claims over many years), and neither are we!
Things have changed. On the 17th September 2024 we relaunched the group with big and exciting (to us at least!) announcements based on the feedback from members earlier in the year.
The plans for now are:
* The ListServer carries on as before.
* In-person conferences will be held in Spring and Autumn, future conferences will be paid for events with a large discount for members, and life members (life members get 4 free conferences).
* Online Talk and Chats for members, will remain free.
* members have a profile page, on which they can advertise their skills and availability.
* as the group grows, we have ambitions to provide more to members.
The 4 people who currently organise the group are below:
A few years ago PJ pulled the short straw and was given the credentials to the UKAUG ListServer. He has been working with Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server since the earliest days of the Access Beta. He specialises in helping businesses understand their processes, and then turn their assorted data sources into a structured database that supports those processes better; thus letting them run their businesses more effectively. A long standing member of the UK Access User Group, until the docs tried to rebuild his spine he presented at every user group conference for over a decade, He started the Talk and Chat online events when the pandemic kyboshed conferences. He can be found at https://corylus-business.co.uk/.
Andrew Richards has been using Access since 2000. He started with a book called “Learn Access 97 in a week end” and is planning to get his money back one of these days, because he’s still learning it (well, the successor versions) 24 year later. He spends his days split between teaching about data – focussing on Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel and a bit of SQL – and building databases using these technologies for companies large and small, including Imperial College London, Oxford University, The Environment Agency, various local government bodies and others. He has presented on various topics including “Getting Excel charts onto Access Forms”, “Getting data from web forms into Access with no code” and the forthcoming (as it was then) GDPR for the UKAUG since 2017. His company is The IT Service - https://theitservice.co.uk
Steve is based in North Wiltshire by the M4 corridor and has been developing Access applications since the mid-nineties. He has moved from pure Access FE & BE solutions to concentrating heavily on SQL Server backends from the mid-2000’s both in house and with SQL Azure.
Steve specialises in slick, non-access looking user interfaces – apart from the first few applications, that in hindsight were shocking, and takes a keen interest in SQL Server query and index tuning.
In what seems a different life, Steve previously worked for an advertising directory business and prior to that a software house developing case management solutions for solicitors.
Steve is the IT software development manager for Blackmore UK who are one of the country’s leading data destruction and secure IT disposal companies. More information on Blackmore can be found at h|s company is – https://www.blackmoreuk.com.