Archive for September, 2004

I met Rick Strahl

Posted on September 30, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

I’ve just returned from the Devcon opening keynote, and what a great keynote it was. 2.5 hours jam packed with demos, features and anecdotes.
Afterwards I met Lisa Slater Nicholls and Colin Nicholls, then David Stevenson, Ken Levy, Doug Hennig and to finish the night, The Man himself: Rick Strahl. Oh man, so many VFP heroes [...]

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I met Rick Strahl

Posted on September 30, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

I’ve just returned from the Devcon opening keynote, and what a great keynote it was. 2.5 hours jam packed with demos, features and anecdotes.
Afterwards I met Lisa Slater Nicholls and Colin Nicholls, then David Stevenson, Ken Levy, Doug Hennig and to finish the night, The Man himself: Rick Strahl. Oh man, so many VFP heroes [...]

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Sydney VFP User Group webcast

Posted on September 29, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

A big thank you to Andrew Coates for coordinating the user group webcast and to Paul, Craig and Castro for presenting. Details of how the event went are here: http://svfpug.blogspot.com/2004/09/web-cast-debrief.html
See also the UG site at www.svfpug.com.au for next month’s details.

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Sydney VFP User Group webcast

Posted on September 29, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

A big thank you to Andrew Coates for coordinating the user group webcast and to Paul, Craig and Castro for presenting. Details of how the event went are here: http://svfpug.blogspot.com/2004/09/web-cast-debrief.html
See also the UG site at www.svfpug.com.au for next month’s details.

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Sauce Reader

Posted on September 25, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

I’ve just stated playing with Sauce Reader -  a very nice blog reader, and free for personal use.

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Sauce Reader

Posted on September 24, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

I’ve just stated playing with Sauce Reader -  a very nice blog reader, and free for personal use.

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Off to Devcon

Posted on September 24, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

I’m off to Devcon on Monday. Unreal, I get to meet my VFP heroes in person.

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VFP9 CoDe Focus magazine

Posted on September 24, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

CoDe Focus magazine is devoted to VFP9 this issue – download the PDF here
CoDe magazine is here

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Sydney VFP User Group reminder

Posted on September 24, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

Sydney VFP User Group is on next Wednesday – a big combined meeting with the Melbourne VFP User Group – details are here

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Off to Devcon

Posted on September 24, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

I’m off to Devcon on Monday. Unreal, I get to meet my VFP heroes in person.

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VFP9 CoDe Focus magazine

Posted on September 24, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

CoDe Focus magazine is devoted to VFP9 this issue – download the PDF here
CoDe magazine is here

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Sydney VFP User Group reminder

Posted on September 24, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

Sydney VFP User Group is on next Wednesday – a big combined meeting with the Melbourne VFP User Group – details are here

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Checking your Managed Funds performance with VFP

Posted on September 8, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

Checking your Managed Funds performance with VFP
If you like to keep track of how your managed funds are performing you’ve probably used one of the many web sites such as ninemsn to get the latest prices and performance. There’s a stack of them out there, but I find the ninemsn site pretty easy to use. [...]

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Axis of Deceit by Andrew Wilkie

Posted on September 8, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

I don’t normally mention books I’ve read (the last time I did was The Rule of Four I think) but this one is worth noting. Its called Axis of Deceit by Andrew Wilkie, a senior intelligence analyst, and it covers what was really known in the lead up to the Iraq war. I’ll reserve stating [...]

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Checking your Managed Funds performance with VFP

Posted on September 8, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

Checking your Managed Funds performance with VFP

If you like to keep track of how your managed funds are performing you’ve probably used one of the many web sites such as ninemsn to get the latest prices and performance. There’s a stack of them out there, but I find the ninemsn site pretty easy to use. [...]

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Axis of Deceit by Andrew Wilkie

Posted on September 8, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

I don’t normally mention books I’ve read (the last time I did was The Rule of Four I think) but this one is worth noting. Its called Axis of Deceit by Andrew Wilkie, a senior intelligence analyst, and it covers what was really known in the lead up to the Iraq war. I’ll reserve stating [...]

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34 today

Posted on September 3, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

So I’m 34 today.
Am I feeling older? Wiser? More confident and mature? Who cares? Just tell us what presents you got!
Well, my wife has excelled herself this year.
First up she gives me the new Alter Bridge album (think Creed with a new singer). Now, after checking the web these guys are huge in the [...]

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34 today

Posted on September 2, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

So I’m 34 today.

Am I feeling older? Wiser? More confident and mature? Who cares? Just tell us what presents you got!
Well, my wife has excelled herself this year.

First up she gives me the new Alter Bridge album (think Creed with a new singer). Now, after checking the web these guys are huge in the [...]

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VFP9 Reporting articles

Posted on September 1, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

VFP 9 Reporting articles announced by Ken Levy here that are available:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfoxgen9/html/VFP9Reports1.asp and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfoxgen9/html/VFP9Reports2.asp

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VFP9 Reporting articles

Posted on September 1, 2004. Filed under: Visual FoxPro |

VFP 9 Reporting articles announced by Ken Levy here that are available:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfoxgen9/html/VFP9Reports1.asp and

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfoxgen9/html/VFP9Reports2.asp

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