Archive for December, 2005
VFP: Using Win32 functions in VFP – offline viewer coming
I’m sure you all know how fantastic the Win32 site is:http://www.news2news.com/vfp/index.php Here’s yet another reason…http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?article=12
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )VFP: Using Win32 functions in VFP – offline viewer coming
I’m sure you all know how fantastic the Win32 site is:
http://www.news2news.com/vfp/index.php
Here’s yet another reason…
http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?article=12
COMPUTERS: Praise, Gripes and why Rick Strahl should move to Australia
Rick writes about his frustration with Dell courtesy of his new notebook. Well, I’m glad to say I have had the exact opposite experience. My new Dell turned up a few weeks back (on the exact day they said they would deliver it no less) and all worked fine. The only issue was a slightly noisy [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )PERSONAL: Time to wind down
Boy am I looking forward to a break next week (I plan to take a few days off in addition to the regular public holidays). The last 2-3 months have been incredibly hectic. I’ve worked most weekends and a lot of nights finishing projects (or atleast trying to!), working on proposals and even making some [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )VFP: Sydney VFP User Group session links
A few of the sessions from last week’s meeting are on the UG site:Eka’s presentation on new SQL stuff is here (and Eka when are you going to start blogging?)Scott’s quick tips are hereMy quick tips are here Thanks to everyone for their support this year – it has been a great year with some excellent sessions. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )VFP: Great Lakes Great Database Workshop 2006
The thing I like about Whil’s conference description is how he is focussing on best practice. A little while back Scott and I discussed the need for better design in the VFP development space. Our basic point was that VFP’s ease of use had often lead to an abandonement of proper analysis and design in many [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )PERSONAL: The BBQ stage
There comes a stage in young man’s life… (well kinda young) Well, I thought it would never happen, but I have now officially entered that stage of life where the BBQ is a prominent feature. Got this little beauty on Saturday and it has been BBQ central at our place ever since. I love this time of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )COMPUTERS: Praise, Gripes and why Rick Strahl should move to Australia
Rick writes about his frustration with Dell courtesy of his new notebook. Well, I’m glad to say I have had the exact opposite experience. My new Dell turned up a few weeks back (on the exact day they said they would deliver it no less) and all worked fine. The only issue was a slightly noisy [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )PERSONAL: Time to wind down
Boy am I looking forward to a break next week (I plan to take a few days off in addition to the regular public holidays).
The last 2-3 months have been incredibly hectic. I’ve worked most weekends and a lot of nights finishing projects (or atleast trying to!), working on proposals and even making some [...]
VFP: Sydney VFP User Group session links
A few of the sessions from last week’s meeting are on the UG site:
Eka’s presentation on new SQL stuff is here (and Eka when are you going to start blogging?)
Scott’s quick tips are here
My quick tips are here
Thanks to everyone for their support this year – it has been a great year with some excellent sessions. [...]
VFP: Great Lakes Great Database Workshop 2006
The thing I like about Whil’s conference description is how he is focussing on best practice. A little while back Scott and I discussed the need for better design in the VFP development space. Our basic point was that VFP’s ease of use had often lead to an abandonement of proper analysis and design in many [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )PERSONAL: The BBQ stage
There comes a stage in young man’s life… (well kinda young)
Well, I thought it would never happen, but I have now officially entered that stage of life where the BBQ is a prominent feature. Got this little beauty on Saturday and it has been BBQ central at our place ever since.
I love this time of [...]
WTF?: Blogger thinks I am a spam blogger
Posting from Qumana has been difficult lately as I’ve been flagged as a potential spam blogger. To their credit Blogger is very apologetic about it and explained what they are trying to do to stop misuse of blogs. Good on ‘em I say.
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=1260#whatwedo
But it makes we wonder what filters they use for identifying spam [...]
LINK: Scott Scovell on VFP AMEMBER gotcha
Interesting post from Scott Scovell on using AMEMBERS in a FOR EACH..NEXT loop.
How many times have you spent hours chasing a little gotcha like this?
http://scottscovellonvfp.blogspot.com/
UPDATE: Scott’s atom feed is at http://scottscovellonvfp.blogspot.com/atom.xml
VFP: FoxPro enDangerfieldment
A few people have written their thoughts on Mary Jo Foley’s article on VFP
http://redmondmag.com/columns/article.asp?editorialsid=1166
I liked Andrew MacNeill’s discussion, and in particular his closing appeal that we need to make our users excited. Read it all here:
http://akselsoft.blogspot.com/2005/12/redmond-column-foxpro-not-endangered.html
If we are to have any chance of getting users excited about FoxPro then we atleast need to make our [...]
LINK: Microsoft Certified Architect
From the looks of it this is a certification that actually carries some weight. http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/shareideas/share_certified/default.aspx Although only in pilot the program looks very comprehensive. Microsoft (and other vendor) certification programs come in for a fair bit of criticism (and rightly so) as to the actual competency they indicate, given that brain dumps are all over the place – [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )VFP: Sydney VFP User Group next Wed 14 Dec
The final Sydney VFP User Group meeting for 2005 is on next Wednesday 14 December. See you at 6:30pm at Microsoft for pizza and drinks. A great bunch of talks and cool prizes make this a great year-end get together. Eka, Paul, John and I will be presenting. Our question time will be looking at strategies for moving your app from VFP to SQL [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )WTF?: Blogger thinks I am a spam blogger
Posting from Qumana has been difficult lately as I’ve been flagged as a potential spam blogger. To their credit Blogger is very apologetic about it and explained what they are trying to do to stop misuse of blogs. Good on ‘em I say. http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=1260#whatwedoBut it makes we wonder what filters they use for identifying spam [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )LINK: Scott Scovell on VFP AMEMBER gotcha
Interesting post from Scott Scovell on using AMEMBERS in a FOR EACH..NEXT loop.How many times have you spent hours chasing a little gotcha like this?
http://scottscovellonvfp.blogspot.com/
UPDATE: Scott’s atom feed is at http://scottscovellonvfp.blogspot.com/atom.xml
VFP: FoxPro enDangerfieldment
A few people have written their thoughts on Mary Jo Foley’s article on VFPhttp://redmondmag.com/columns/article.asp?editorialsid=1166I liked Andrew MacNeill’s discussion, and in particular his closing appeal that we need to make our users excited. Read it all here:http://akselsoft.blogspot.com/2005/12/redmond-column-foxpro-not-endangered.htmlIf we are to have any chance of getting users excited about FoxPro then we atleast need to make our [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )LINK: Microsoft Certified Architect
From the looks of it this is a certification that actually carries some weight.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/shareideas/share_certified/default.aspx
Although only in pilot the program looks very comprehensive.
Microsoft (and other vendor) certification programs come in for a fair bit of criticism (and rightly so) as to the actual competency they indicate, given that brain dumps are all over the place – [...]
VFP: Sydney VFP User Group next Wed 14 Dec
The final Sydney VFP User Group meeting for 2005 is on next Wednesday 14 December.
See you at 6:30pm at Microsoft for pizza and drinks.
A great bunch of talks and cool prizes make this a great year-end get together.
Eka, Paul, John and I will be presenting.
Our question time will be looking at strategies for moving your app from VFP to SQL [...]
