maxfactoringnoun, verb1. the process of gradually improving the ‘look and feel’ of a software application in small chunks2. partaking in the UX initiative of ‘results driven application surface design’The result is aesthetic only, there is no change in functionality, performance, stability, scalability or reliability. Side effects include...
The SednaX moving and renaming is an interesting exercise. I felt that the SednaX ‘brand’ was finally starting to catch on, but now they’ll have to start over. However, I can understand the reasons for the change.As I’m sure you know, you can vote for the new name here. I voted for VFP.Next for two reasons: 1. It has a continuous quality to it, ie...
Just loving the ctl32 status bar and progress bar from Carlos Alloatti on SednaX.Go to SednaX and then downloads (you need to be a member to download).Carlos has a great set of documentation available here.Here’s a few screenshots (click to enlarge) of one of our applications with the status bar implemented.The first shows a simple update of the status bar with search results, along with an...
Apologies for having an incorrect link on one of our downloads pages.Most links were fine, but one had a link to an old version. To be clear: You can download FoxTabs 0.3.6 (dated 24 May 2006) from here:;
The whole Office 2007 ribbon UX was getting a lot of discussion a year ago (Office 12 as it was then). Given that most people are pretty cool with the concept (see here if you aren’t familiar with the ribbon idea), then chances are that when it is finally released, we’ll see applications all jumping to get the Office 2007 look and feel. And great I say – I really like the new...
This is an important read for all Visual FoxPro dvelopers finally finished reading the ‘Visual FoxPro Best Practices for the next 10 Years’ ebook this weekend (it was released approx a month ago). I cannot recommend this book highly enough. As you probably know it came out of Whil’s recent Great Lakes Great Database Workshop 2006 and features articles on...
As Craig Boyd and others have pointed out, Visual FoxPro has risen again in the TIOBE index, this time to number 12. It is only an index ofcourse, so we can’t place too much emphasis on it, but on the other hand it does seem a reasonable reflection of VFP’s revival lately. However the thing that concerns me is seeing VB.Net drop down to position 21. This seems...
The ‘Infectious’ Dave Lemphers (you only need to see him present once to see how infectious and passionate this guy is) wrote (a few weeks ago) about ‘Why you should get a degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering’. principle I strongly agree with him. There’s a few problems we face however. One is that post-dot-com there has been a shift in the...
Another Foxie joins us. Oscar has a nice first post about how to create circular forms in VFP. code is very easy to use. To save you the (minute of) trouble of coding a form yourself you can try a simple sample made from his code here. This is ofcourse only the beginning of many things you can do. And there are numerous different approaches (eg see Craig Boyd’s posts on...
I pretty much agree with this article that we should be able to get basic database operations (create, read, update, delete) out of the box. Although our projects are getting more complex, the underlying data integrity requirements don’t really change much. to Adam for pointing this one out to me.