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One of the great things about Southwest Fox was the open discussions that were had almost every minute. Thankfully, some discussions and “discussers” let them be recorded. Here’s a discussion Alan Stevens and I had one morning about his sessions on Agility and Ignorance as well as XML handling – a little FoxShow extra. It’s … Read more
One of the sessions that I didn’t get to attend last night was the “Show us your apps”. I think that session would have been really interesting. Many of the attendees I spoke to were fairly shy about their own FoxPro applications. They would talk about it (as it is their “baby” so to speak) … Read more
At Southwest Fox last night , we had a VFPX Meeting (that was also screencast over uStream). The meeting went on for just under 2 hours but a lot of great ideas were thrown about, including ways for others to get involved, without having to code (something that many seemed to like). I recorded it … Read more
If you haven’t been trying out the VFPX project FoxCharts , or you tried but were a little frightened by how to implement it, here’s some code that I wrote up quickly to build a nice little pie chart. I call it GenPie and it gets called with any table and it will summarize it … Read more
At the risk of simply pointing to someone else’s post and saying “yes, I do this and you should read this if you don’t”, Andy Kramek has a great post about Access and Assign methods can be useful! I use Access/Assign methods probably not as much as I should and his post pulls out some … Read more
Craig Bailey blogged recently about a new product, Elcom, had introduced with a name of Elcom TrainingManager.Net. In his post, he briefly mentioned they were talking about renaming it and one of the responses was from a company named Igor that talked about the importance of naming. By now, I think everyone has seen the … Read more
Just about every FoxPro application has a need to store settings. Whether it be the startup folder or various application preferences, they have to be stored somewhere. Of course, that begs the question “where”? Back in the DOS days, many developers stored settings directly in a DBF table. This sometimes created a table with one … Read more
Kevin Ragsdale has a great video showing how to integrate GoogleDocs with your VFP application. (and yes, he answers the question “Why would you want to do that?”) http://kevinragsdale.blogspot.com/2008/04/google-docs-with-visual-foxpro.html Glad to see you back Kevin!
Don’t know why I hadn’t seen this before but Burkhard’s VFP 9.0 Blog has a wealth of information on a variety of VFP development topics including Native controls, binary files and RTF2HTML. Definitely worth checking out.
Don’t Let Software Die ~ Chris Pirillo Interesting post regarding TuCow’s decision a while back to stop updating Blogware. It reminded me a little of VFP in that it’s a company that has decided to stop updating one of its software packages. Chris’ comments on the letter:>> What worries me most about building communities on … Read more