During my holidays this week I watched a documentary on the making of Hysteria – one of the classic rock albums of all time. I was stunned to learn of all the trials the band had to overcome in order to get this album out. It took 4 years, required firing the first two producers and ofcourse includes the horrific crash in which drummer Rick Allen lost his left arm.My favourite part is...
You’ve probably seen Craig Boyd’s State of the Language address already, but I want to link to it anyway. I have nothing to add – he says it all.
Thanks to Craig Boyd for summarising the FoxPro conferences this year (and I note Milind has done likewise here). Note that in the comments on Craig Boyd’s post there is a pointer to the Brazilian conference coming in the ‘1st Semeter of 2006’. [As an aside, it would be nice if we could pick up comments via RSS as updates to a post – perhaps this is something...
You’ve probably seen the TIOBE index mentioned again in the chatter on UT. VFP is up to 16 now.Whilst this is encouraging I’d have to say that having Visual FoxPro above VB.Net (it is at 19) doesn’t sound right to me. Not that I want to sound negative, rather just brace yourself in case Tiobe reviews their index calc in coming months.The interesting thing for me in the index was...
I’m having a break for a week. This is one of my ‘forced’ holidays. Basically I have a habit of overdoing it workwise and then falling over with burnout. Not that I’m a workaholic or anything, rather I just don’t get any internal warning when I am about to crash. So, I decided this year to schedule in a week of forced holiday every 3 months, even if I didn’t...
A very interesting chat with Sydney based Adam Cogan on .Net Rocks. The focus is on using rules (I’d prefer to call them guidelines) in your software development company. Many of the rules are project management and marketing based, aswell as Coding and Naming convention standards, so this is a great resource for any software house (ie you don’t have to be .Net based necessarily)...
will be of limited interest, although my wife will love it. When we were in Switzerland this time last year Michele spent a weekend down at CERN – she was in her element there.
Rick Schummer writes about the importance of testing your installers on a non-dev machine. I couldn’t agree more. Especially important is the uninstall process which he also highlights. I shake my head though at how complex the install process has become. I liked this guy’s comments about installing an app – why can’t we just copy over a folder like we did in the good...
Thanks to everyone who has been supporting OzFox Lite so far. I have been pleased to receive registrations from a whole bunch of people I have never heard of :-), so word is certainly getting around. I have you, the community, to thank for that. Please keep it up. For those who don’t know about OzFox Lite yet, please check out the site (www.ozfox.com.au) for details. It is looking...
One thing that struck me at the funeral (mentioned in my previous post) earlier this week was how much contribution the guy (his name was Rob) made to the local community. It came out later privately from close family that he was actually very successful in business and quite wealthy as a result. However, the focus at his funeral was on his huge contribution to local community ventures...