The thing I like about Whil’s conference description is how he is focussing on best practice. A little while back Scott and I discussed the need for better design in the VFP development space. Our basic point was that VFP’s ease of use had often lead to an abandonement of proper analysis and design in many projects (not least our own!). To this end Scott will be presenting...
There comes a stage in young man’s life… (well kinda young) Well, I thought it would never happen, but I have now officially entered that stage of life where the BBQ is a prominent feature. Got this little beauty on Saturday and it has been BBQ central at our place ever since. I love this time of year. December is probably my favourite month. The weather is warm, but not too...
Posting from Qumana has been difficult lately as I’ve been flagged as a potential spam blogger. To their credit Blogger is very apologetic about it and explained what they are trying to do to stop misuse of blogs. Good on ’em I say. it makes we wonder what filters they use for identifying spam blogs. The only thing I could think of is that I use the word ‘VFP’ a lot…
Interesting post from Scott Scovell on using AMEMBERS in a FOR EACH..NEXT loop.How many times have you spent hours chasing a little gotcha like this?
UPDATE: Scott’s atom feed is at
A few people have written their thoughts on Mary Jo Foley’s article on VFPhttp://redmondmag.com/columns/article.asp?editorialsid=1166I liked Andrew MacNeill’s discussion, and in particular his closing appeal that we need to make our users excited. Read it all here: we are to have any chance of getting users excited about FoxPro then we atleast need to make our products attractive...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...