Craig Bailey

One of the things I love about Craig Berntson is how he speaks his mind. Like this post about Ray Ozzie taking over from Bill in time. Classic.And I’m with Craig on the WinFX renaming – what’s the problem?

Just when I was starting to get a little worried (as per my comment on being underwhelmed with Sedna so far) Craig Boyd comes along and gets me all excited again. World domination? Just possibly…

The link is hereAn exciting program in my opinion (here’s my thoughts about it from last year). From the press release:“Being a Microsoft Certified Architect allows me to go in and evangelize the proper use of technology to the people who need to be touched with that.” Will it make it to Australia I wonder? I hope so…  

Great post. This stuff is too easy.: the post page has a download attachment (easy to miss). 

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...