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LINK: Microsoft Certified Architect

From the looks of it this is a certification that actually carries some weight.  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 – ie passing the exams might be nothing more...

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 as a backend...

LINK: Mailbox limits

Yep, those mail box limits some companies set defy explanationhttp://www.secretgeek.net/mailboxlimits.aspsg’s note in the comments about the 5.25″ backup cracked me up

SQL: Compare case in WHERE clause

Here’s one of those really easy SQL tips that I always forget (in fact I’m just posting it here for ease of finding later) In VFP it is easy to compare case ie SELECT fields FROM mytable   WHERE UPPER(field) == field If you want to compare case in a SQL Server database that is case insensitive, just convert to varbinary first eg:SELECT fields FROM...

VFP: Google to buy Visual FoxPro

Originally I was going to post this on April 1 next year, but in the end I decided I couldn’t wait that long… A few of us were chatting around the coffee machine at work the other day discussing what would happen if Google bought Visual FoxPro from Microsoft. It’s an interesting idea and one that would probably please the developers who think Microsoft doesn’t support...

VFP: FoxTabs issue…

You might be wondering how FoxTabs is coming along. Well, all fine except for one little issue that is a potential showstopper…Scott has posted here with the details.  

LINK: Music CD copy protection

An interesting piece on Music CD copy protection. Keep it in mind when you next consider purchasing a CD. the analysis:: We finally have iTunes in Australia now (as of Tuesday 25 Oct 2006)

SQL: Installing SQL 2005

I installed SQL 2005 successfully after removing VS Beta 2 (and the SQL CTP that came with it).For anyone who needs to remove Beta 2 the following steps may be useful:1. Download the RTMs from MSDN Subscriber Downloads(assuming you are a Subscriber) 2. Uninstall SQL Server CTPThe following wouldn’t work for me so I had to uninstall the components manuallyhttp://blogs.msdn...

VFP: OzFox Lite conference announced

I’ve just posted details of OzFox Lite 2006 on the OzFox site.OzFox Lite is a low cost conference for Australian VFP developers, similar to the CodeCamp concept. Oz developers, keep the weekend of March 25 and 26 next year free.We are looking for talented Australian developers to present.
Think of this as a big VFP User Group going for a whole weekend. Bring it on!

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