This past week started on a sad note. We were down in Canberra to attend a funeral for a good friend’s father who had been killed in a car accident. After the funeral (then cremation service, then wake) we drove back to Sydney. We were exhausted after a long day. But we were so thankful for how fortunate we are compared to some. Lately there have been many around us undergoing...
One thing I realised after listening back to our latest OzFoxRocks episode is that a small chunk of discussion didn’t make it into the final mixdown.When we discussed promoting VFP we made mention of Craig Boyd’s promos and in particular the phrase: ‘Does more before breakfast than other languages do all day’ As Craig Boyd’s post pointed out this comes from...
I’m still about 4 or 5 episodes behind on my Fox Show listening… So I started with the most recent show with John Petersen’s views on legal issues. This is an important issue and one all developers need to be grappling with. In my experience the smaller shops tend to put legal issues in the ‘that’s for the big software companies’ basket, but this is...
For those of you using Win32 functions in your VFP apps this will be of major interest. I won’t go into all the great features, just go to the site, download it and buy it now.Highly recommended. at $20 it is a steal. (Note: I have told Anitoliy that I think the $20 price is rediculously low and that he should increase it to $50. So you may want to get in quickly in case he...
The Visual FoxPro Tipping Point There is a VFP Surge on at present. 2005 was a good year for Visual FoxPro and 2006 could turn out to be the VFP Tipping Point. Those familiar with Malcolm Gladwell’s famous book may see some similarities to the VFP environment at present. But first a quick recap of relevant important events in 2005. The start was the unveiling of...
Scott and I have posted Episode 2 of OzFoxRocks (which, statistically, means we have had an episode a year… <g>). You can check it out here: www.ozfoxrocks.comthe content listing is here: to the feed here:
I know this is an old one…;
Unbelievablehttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1581867722104021421
Do you feel ‘The Surge’? The VFP Surge is building. Everyday new resources are popping up. Andrew MacNeill’s excellent collection point arrived just before New Yearhttp://learningvfp.blogspot.com/ And I just stumbled upon this new one from Tom Meekshttp://vfpstart.blogspot.com/ Could 2006 be The VFP Tipping Point?
Give me 10 Craig Boyds and I could rule the world… stuff