BigChimp passed away on 4th december

[x2nie]

My respect to him and his family.
 

[jwdietrich]

This message saddens me.

I had some very fruitful discussions with him in this forum and in the Lazarus wiki. He will leave a large gap in the community.

My condolence to his family and friends.

[Mike.Cornflake]

I was absolutely gutted when I heard the news and I miss him dearly.

Rest in peace Reinier, thanks for everything...

[bill0287]

I am also deeply saddened by this news.

BigChimp helped me immensely when I first discovered Lazarus. His knowledge and patience made the transition to Laz easy and enjoyable.

My condolences to his family and friends.

[typo]

He just helped me with lzRichEdit. Rest in peace, my friend.

[clauslack]

My condolences to his family. Thanks for you work. (specially Turbobird and TDbf).
A big lost for Lazarus Comunity 

[nomorelogic]

I know this shocking news just now
thanks for everything BigChimp

[typo]

Good way to die, making what you like in an open source community. I want to die this way too.

[motaz]

I found that BigChimp was active in TurboBird repository until 26-October, and this is one of his last commits/additions there:

Code: [Select]

// if -1 specified: delete entire mapping array
// Returns true if one or more mappings were deleted
function DeleteMapping(Item: integer): boolean;
+ // Delete mapping for specified destination field
+ // Returns true if one or more mappings were deleted
+ function DeleteMapping(DestinationField: string): boolean;
// After calling readrow, getdata returns data in the field mapped to
// DestinationField or empty if nothing found
function GetData(DestinationField: string): string;
@@ -222,6 +225,19 @@ function TFileImport.DeleteMapping(Item: integer): boolean;
FRowData.Delete(Item);
// Release last array item
SetLength(FMapping,High(FMapping));
+ result:=true;
+ end;
+end;
+
+function TFileImport.DeleteMapping(DestinationField: string): boolean;
+var
+ Index: integer;
+begin
+ result:=false;
+ Index:=GetMappingIndex(DestinationField);
+ if Index>-1 then
+ begin
+ result:=DeleteMapping(Index);
end;
end;

[cov]

Sorry to hear this sad news on the Lazarus mailing list.

Big Chimp helped me a lot and could always be relied upon to offer helpful advice.

~Dave Coventry

[TurboRascal]

I came to the forum after some time and I couldn't believe my eyes...

A great loss for this community... he helped many people on the forum and made quite an effort to improve the wiki, IMHO a great contribution in itself. And what's more to say about fpcup... I fortunately got to know him a little while briefly collaborating with him on the project...

In any case it's a great loss of a person too young to die, and so full of creative energy and willing to share it with others...

You will be missed, Reiner... Rest in peace...

[jshand2010]

i feel upset about this.  i remember him being very helpful regardless the mood i was in.  a big thanks to him

[jma_sp]

Siento enterarme de estas malas noticias 

Estuvo por aquí incluso en su estado compartiendo con tod@s nosotr@s, no sabía que estaba tan enfermo:

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LazReport translation!

Ola Jma sp, (Sorry, my Spanish is about non-existent). Noticed your work on translating the LazReprot docs into Spanish - just wanted to say thanks. I'm glad that my own work in updating the docs pays off and helps others

Regards, --BigChimp 10:27, 15 October 2014 (CEST)

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Pero realmente las gracias es para él, yo solo traduzco, el mérito es para quien tiene algo que enseñar y además lo más importante la dedicación a su afición para con los demás de forma altruista.

Gracias BigChimp, sin duda una gran persona, se te echará de menos por aquí.

Mi más sentido pésame para la familia.

A pesar de la aparente distancia que a veces no deja conocerse a la gente que participa y disfruta de este site hay cosas que no tienen precio y una de ellas es contribuir a crear algo mejor todos los días.

[WickedDum]

Wow.

My condolences to his family.

I have read numerous posts/comments by BigChimp; not only in response to my own posts.  His contributions will stand the test of time; but we're all going to have a void due to no new posts...

May he rest in peace.  God bless.

[swierzbicki]

So sad 

RIP BigChimp.

Condolences to his family