June and July have been extremely busy as we geared up for a major software release to ALL our wool industry clients. Long days, heaps of careful planning and some clever deployment. But now the hard work is about to be put to the test… our software goes live at 5am Monday morning (24 July).So far it is all looking good (I’ll even be heading off early tomorrow – Friday –...
INXS: 15 Year Anniversary of Wembley Stadium
It is 15 years ago to the day that INXS, one of Australia’s greatest ever rock bands, took to the stage at Wembley Stadium and delivered the perfect rock concert. No backup dancers, no fancy lights shows, no silly interludes. Just a sensational rock concert. It showcases exceptional musicianship, as great rock song after great rock song is performed for an ecstatic crowd of over 70,000...
LINK: Using VFP to create data centric web pages
Interesting post over on ASP free
VFP: Another quick screencast about VFP for non-VFP developers
Here’s a quick little screencast on how easy it is to use the Visual FoxPro command line IntelliSense to discover things like object models. In this simple example I use IntelliSense to discover the Outlook object model for emails. Very simple, and aimed at the non-VFP developer to show you how useful VFP can be as a helper tool in your developer toolbox. for further information on...
VFP: TIOBE and Google Trends
A few people have mentioned the Tiobe index again (I liked Bill Coupe’s post) and VFP sitting at 13.Never mind VFP, I’m still amazed to see how well Visual Basic is doing (still going from strength to strength even though it is no longer officially supported). I was reminded of Google Trends the other day (thanks to Mitch Wheat’s post). So here’s a few...
VFP: Sydney VFP User Group from last week
Last week at the Sydney Visual FoxPro User Group we had Rahul Desai and John Burrows speak.Rahul presented on VFP tools including FoxMasters – click here for his summaryJohn presented on Refox – click here for his presentation
VFP: FoxWiki volume and FoxPro RSS feeds
A very interesting message over on the West Wind Message Board about FoxWiki volumehttp://www.west-wind.com/wwThreads/default.asp?msgid=1UA1APSY4 Interesting to read that of the thousands of unique daily hits, only 310 people subscribe the RSS feed. Where do people find the time? I’ve subscribed to the feed for ages, because I just don’t have the time to...
VFP: More requests for Aussie VFP developers
Calling Australian Visual FoxPro developers. I need to know your details. I seem to be getting more and more calls these days from people asking for help with customising and extending their VFP systems. Often they are after companies to outsource work to. Currently I recommend a few companies I know personally and direct them to this Wiki page:, if you are in the market for...
VFP: Kevin Ragsdale hits a high
Beautiful work by Kevin Ragsdale with his VFP promo video here: thoughts? Keep ’em coming… btw what’s the music you use? – I like it
VFP: Too much stuff coming from the community
Yep, well as per usual the Visual FoxPro community is delivering in spades, and I don’t have time to keep up.Dave Crozier joins us with an impressive debut, and I’m still trying to get my head around the incredible GDIPlusX library update that Bo Durban and Craig Boyd have posted on SednaX (soon to be VFPX).Heck, I only just found time to listen to The Fox Show...