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Virgil’s coming home for a few days. Two shows. My advice – use the first show to work out the best place to position yourself for the next night.

It has been a really tiring year so far (good for Talman though) with so much work on.So it was a welcome phone call a few weeks back from my good friend Greg calling to say he wanted to get the band back together (sorry).Many years ago a bunch of us were in a band called Kaos Theory (we were crap) and then later formed a studio band called Sexagesima (look it up – it’s not what you...

Magic Dave (our IT Manager) has installed our brand new R+D Blade Server. At Talman we do most of our development on Terminal Servers (allows our 15 developers to all have consistent Dev tools, performance, backups, test environments etc) and so it is necessary to be strict with what gets installed on them. No Betas, untested tools, unknown shareware downloads etc.So when it comes to evaluating...

Funniest film I’ve seen this year. Reasonably high on the offensiveness scale though (not one for the kids). worth catching on the low budget movie list: Napoleon Dynamitehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374900/

Talman (the company I work for) is looking for a few extra programmers (in .Net web, and VFP).Details are here:

I couldn’t agree more with David Stevenson’s editorial in the March edition of FoxTalk. Basically he says to the Fox worriers, be Fox warriors instead.Stop wasting time lamenting the demise of VFP (which we’ve been expecting for the last 3 years now…) and instead get out and use it to make money. I get deflated each time the conversation at a user group or online thread...

Just a reminder that the VFP UG is on again at 6:30pm tomorrow (Wednesday) night.See you there.Details of topics, speakers and location at www.svfpug.com.au

We had to write a quick app for a client the other day. I wrote most of it over a weekend and then wrapped it up in InstallShield so the client could download it from our web site and install it. Their requirements very simple (this app only had 5 tables, 5 forms and 6 output html pages), and is possibly the smallest commercial app we’ve ever written. It basically captured auction sales...

Thanks to Amit for alerting me to the fact that my backspace solution didn’t work for the mouse event. Turns out that the solution is still simple but involves using KeyPress aswell as Valid. Simply add a new property (eg bAllowBackspace) to your textbox baseclass and then throw the follow code in KeyPress and Valid events KeyPress() LPARAMETERS nKeyCode, nShiftAltCtrlIF nKeyCode = 127...

Updated: I had the wrong MSDN link – fixed nowI write this from CodeCampOz which has been a fantastic event. For a ‘free’ event it has been remarkably smooth and well organised. (The event itself is free, you only have to get and stay here (Wagga) so travel and accomodation is the only cost.)The weekend has focussed on Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 (released just a few days ago and...