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...
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...