Archive for May, 2006
VFP: OzFoxRocks! Episode 4 – Aussie Visual FoxPro podcast
Scott and I have posted Episode 4 of OzFoxRocks.In this show we talk about the Visual FoxPro Community. The content listing is here: http://www.ozfoxrocks.com/Default.aspx?tabid=59 You can subscribe to the feed here: http://www.ozfoxrocks.com/Portals/0/Episodes/rss.xml OzFoxRocks! home: http://www.ozfoxrocks.com Tell us what you agree with, diagree with or make a suggestion.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )VFP: Sydney VFP User Group tomorrow night
Tomorrow night (Wed 31 May 2006) the Sydney VFP User Group meets again. Andrew Coates will be demoing VFP on VistaI will be discussing Promoting VFP to the Developer Community See you at 6:30pm at Microsoft, North Ryde. http://www.svfpug.com.au
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Visual FoxPro
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VFP: OzFoxRocks! Episode 4 – Aussie Visual FoxPro podcast
Scott and I have posted Episode 4 of OzFoxRocks.
In this show we talk about the Visual FoxPro Community.
The content listing is here: http://www.ozfoxrocks.com/Default.aspx?tabid=59
You can subscribe to the feed here: http://www.ozfoxrocks.com/Portals/0/Episodes/rss.xml
OzFoxRocks! home: http://www.ozfoxrocks.com
Tell us what you agree with, diagree with or make a suggestion.
VFP: Sydney VFP User Group tomorrow night
Tomorrow night (Wed 31 May 2006) the Sydney VFP User Group meets again.
Andrew Coates will be demoing VFP on Vista
I will be discussing Promoting VFP to the Developer Community
See you at 6:30pm at Microsoft, North Ryde.
http://www.svfpug.com.au
NET: What the hell is Visual FoxPro?
Aimed at .Net developers, here's two quick screencasts about Microsoft's Visual FoxPro tool, covering databinding and very simple SQL Server access:
http://www.craigbailey.net/screencasts.htm
And here's an 'elevator' pitch on Visual FoxPro (OK, so maybe it is a bit long – perhaps it is a 'Wynyard Station escalator' speech…):
http://www.craigbailey.net/whatisVFP.htm
Acknowledgement: Thanks to Calvin Hsia for the script of one of [...]
NET: What the hell is Visual FoxPro?
Aimed at .Net developers, here’s two quick screencasts about Microsoft’s Visual FoxPro tool, covering databinding and very simple SQL Server access:http://www.craigbailey.net/screencasts.htmAnd here’s an ‘elevator’ pitch on Visual FoxPro (OK, so maybe it is a bit long – perhaps it is a ‘Wynyard Station escalator’ speech…):http://www.craigbailey.net/whatisVFP.htmAcknowledgement: Thanks to Calvin Hsia for the script of one of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )VFP: Another Visual FoxPro blogger – Bernard Bout
And yet another impressive blog on Visual FoxPro starts up. Nice one Bernardhttp://weblogs.foxite.com/bernardbout/ One cool thing that many people don’t know about is that you can do a Save as class… on many objects. Bernard’s post has a perfect example of this in action. Bernard sent me some screen shots of some really cool FoxPro applications he [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )VFP: FoxTabs update – good news
I’m glad to report that I think we have a solution (and a surprisingly simple one at that) to our FoxTabs crash issue. Tracy P put us on a good path and we have been testing successfully so far.You can follow the forum thread here if you are interested. If all stays good we will be [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )VFP: Anyone interested in a Visual FoxPro Skypecast?
Scott Scovell and I have been toying with the idea of hosting some Skypecasts on Visual FoxPro.If you aren’t familiar with the concept you can check it out here (not sure why it is a https link btw). The aim would be to have a few people (say 10-15) join the discussion, which we record and then [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 5 so far )VFP: Another Visual FoxPro blogger – Bernard Bout
And yet another impressive blog on Visual FoxPro starts up. Nice one Bernard
http://weblogs.foxite.com/bernardbout/
One cool thing that many people don’t know about is that you can do a Save as class… on many objects. Bernard’s post has a perfect example of this in action.
Bernard sent me some screen shots of some really cool FoxPro applications he [...]
VFP: FoxTabs update – good news
I’m glad to report that I think we have a solution (and a surprisingly simple one at that) to our FoxTabs crash issue. Tracy P put us on a good path and we have been testing successfully so far.
You can follow the forum thread here if you are interested.
If all stays good we will be [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )VFP: Anyone interested in a Visual FoxPro Skypecast?
Scott Scovell and I have been toying with the idea of hosting some Skypecasts on Visual FoxPro.
If you aren’t familiar with the concept you can check it out here (not sure why it is a https link btw).
The aim would be to have a few people (say 10-15) join the discussion, which we record and then [...]
VFP: FoxTabs needs your help
Scott and I are back on the FoxTabs case (after a couple of months distracted by other things – news on that in a few weeks). We are keen to resolve the big show stopper, which is it will crash if there are compile errors in prg, forms or class code. To replicate this, all you need [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )VFP: FoxTabs needs your help
Scott and I are back on the FoxTabs case (after a couple of months distracted by other things – news on that in a few weeks).
We are keen to resolve the big show stopper, which is it will crash if there are compile errors in prg, forms or class code.
To replicate this, all you need [...]
VFP: Another Visual FoxPro blogger – Juan Calcagno
Just happened upon Juan’s blog here:http://blog.jlcconsulting.com/ I checked and it is on UT, but not on FoxWiki yet. Juan, make sure you add yourself here:http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~BlogWatch
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )VFP: Another Visual FoxPro blogger – Juan Calcagno
Just happened upon Juan’s blog here:
http://blog.jlcconsulting.com/
I checked and it is on UT, but not on FoxWiki yet. Juan, make sure you add yourself here:
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~BlogWatch
PERSONAL: Help my wife for 30 minutes
Perhaps you can help… my wife Michele is doing research into happiness as part of her Psychology Honours Thesis.
Part of this is an online survey which asks about 150 multiple choice questions. It takes approximately 20-30 minutes to complete. It is completely anonymous.
If you are able to take part in the survey that would be a [...]
PERSONAL: Help my wife for 30 minutes
Perhaps you can help… my wife Michele is doing research into happiness as part of her Psychology Honours Thesis.
Part of this is an online survey which asks about 150 multiple choice questions. It takes approximately 20-30 minutes to complete. It is completely anonymous.
If you are able to take part in the survey that would be a [...]
VFP: How to make Visual FoxPro cool
VFP: How to make Visual FoxPro cool In case you hadn’t noticed, Visual FoxPro (VFP) is not very ‘cool’. In this post my aim is to cover 3 areas: 1. Why VFP isn’t cool
2. Why it matters
3. How we can make VFP cool 1. Why VFP isn’t cool
OK, so the first thing we need to agree on is [...]
VFP: How to make Visual FoxPro cool
VFP: How to make Visual FoxPro cool
In case you hadn’t noticed, Visual FoxPro (VFP) is not very ‘cool’. In this post my aim is to cover 3 areas:
1. Why VFP isn’t cool2. Why it matters3. How we can make VFP cool
1. Why VFP isn’t coolOK, so the first thing we need to agree on is [...]
