Question about other users' code

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Good morning,
I'd like to start by saying that I am posting in this newsgroup because this is where I obtained the most help/answers/suggestions for my development experience. (I'm trying to avoid flames for 'irrelevance' <g>)

First I would like to thank all of you who have helped me over the past several months with my Budget Tracking System, my CigLogic recordset question, the dot (.) vs. bang (!) quesetion, and many others. I have used various code in the Budget Tracking System to facilitate its use and deployment of updates/enhancements to the Front End. I have maintained all code comments pertaining to source code developers (Dev Ashish and Brandon Kidwell).

What I want to know is this. I am providing a short user manual (it's a pretty simple application to use - developing was the real challenge) for the other engineers in my group, my manager, our department assistant (who is the major user), and our Accounting Manager responsible for bill payment. In the appendix, I mention Tony Toews by name for his Auto FE Updater utility - since his utility isn't actually a part of the application.

What other comments/etc should be included in the manual to give appropriate recognition where it is due?

Finally, of course, I'd like to develop on the side (I'm know I am not good enough to make a career out of this). Unfortunately, the few applications I have developed now belong to my employer, who are aware of the freely distributed code built into the application and the owners of the intellectual property). This is probably overkill on my part. However, my company is rather large (15-20k people) and no telling what will happen if I ever leave this place.

Anyway, back to the users' manual. Please be honest about what should be in there. I want to do this right.

Thank you again!
Derek
 
If you have used significant chunks of others' code ("significant",
like beauty, is a bit in the eye of the beholder, but complete
Functions would certainly qualify), I think you should acknowledge the
original authors briefly in your Users' Manual, as well as in code
comments. For other sorts of help, it's up to you. "I would also like
to thank [list of names] for their help and encouragement", doesn't
cost much!

Good morning,
I'd like to start by saying that I am posting in this newsgroup because this is where I obtained the most help/answers/suggestions for my development experience. (I'm trying to avoid flames for 'irrelevance' <g>)

First I would like to thank all of you who have helped me over the past several months with my Budget Tracking System, my CigLogic recordset question, the dot (.) vs. bang (!) quesetion, and many others. I have used various code in the Budget Tracking System to facilitate its use and deployment of updates/enhancements to the Front End. I have maintained all code comments pertaining to source code developers (Dev Ashish and Brandon Kidwell).

What I want to know is this. I am providing a short user manual (it's a pretty simple application to use - developing was the real challenge) for the other engineers in my group, my manager, our department assistant (who is the major user), and our Accounting Manager responsible for bill payment. In the appendix, I mention Tony Toews by name for his Auto FE Updater utility - since his utility isn't actually a part of the application.

What other comments/etc should be included in the manual to give appropriate recognition where it is due?

Finally, of course, I'd like to develop on the side (I'm know I am not good enough to make a career out of this). Unfortunately, the few applications I have developed now belong to my employer, who are aware of the freely distributed code built into the application and the owners of the intellectual property). This is probably overkill on my part. However, my company is rather large (15-20k people) and no telling what will happen if I ever leave this place.

Anyway, back to the users' manual. Please be honest about what should be in there. I want to do this right.

Thank you again!
Derek
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Peter R. Fletcher
 
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