Andrew Coates blogs about his Team System experience here – so far so good. (And yes, like him we are hanging out for the new provider so we can ease it into our VFP development). My comments below are mainly focussed on management (not development). I’m pleased to say our initial experiences are good also (although we are only using it on the .Net side of things so far). We...
I totally agree with this post from Rory Primrose on the importance of great UI design. Fox developers in particular need to be mindful of this – use it to your advantage. Remember ‘Perception is everything’.
Love this post from Greg Low last year on the ‘quality’ of our local database journalists. And you thought VFP brought out the best in ill-informed press… wonder what Andrew MacNeill thinks of the Builder.AU tag line…
I’ve been going through the Barnardos (a kid’s charity) annual report. Part of the reason for reviewing the report is to ensure our dollars are used the best they can be – ie are we getting the best ‘return’ on our charitable ‘investment’.[Sorry if this sounds too clinical, but with over 1,000 registered charities in Australia, I think you need to be...
Blogger informs me that this is my 200th post. So, how fitting that I can use this milestone to announce a special bonus about OzFox Lite…Thanks to the generosity of Microsoft and in particular Andrew Coates for his great support, I am pleased to say that the registration fee for OzFox Lite will be zero. I’m really glad we can do this, and make OzFox Lite very code-camp like...
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...