After 35 years of bookkeeping experience and 20 years in the IT world (fortunately these periods overlapped) Richard Wright left the security of paid employment and stepped out on his own. He set up Midnight Software Solutions to provide IT and bookkeeping services to small business.
Richard's bookkeeping experience commenced with hand written books of account and that background really helps when you are in the middle of a modern computer based accounting package and sometimes wondering where the entries went. He moved onto some of the early accounting packages such as Attaché before settling on the popular packages like MYOB and Quickbooks.
His programming life began at home with a VZ 20 machine running Basic in the mid 70s. When IBM launched its first PC, the XT, he moved onto Turbo Basic, Prolog and C.
His commercial programming life began with dBase III, and then Pick running on a Unix machine before settling down to programming Windows based applications, mostly in Visual Basic, although with a few side trips into the main frame world.
He has programmed commercial applications in every version of Visual Basic since version 3, and his major emphasis has been on database applications and analysis.