Beating SPAM the Easy Way

Okay – sure I know you can BUY software to prevent SPAM but the easiest way for people who don’t usually get e-mails from people they don’t know is the following: (Note: this works better in Outlook 2003 because you can specify the Address Book instead of the having to specify each person) 1. Create … Read more

The Design of Everyday Things

Great article (oldie (2002) but goodie!) on the the user interface design issues facing toilet paper rolls. (yes I’m serious!) Click here to see it on Donald Norman’s site Every time I give a session on user interface design (VFP Devcon this year), I’m always tempted to go back and look at how to improve … Read more

Improving the VFP Menu Designer As many in the community know, I have a strong affinity towards menus, having creating GenMenuX way back when and it still runs even under VFP 8 without any modifications. One of the questions that came out during the closing session was will there ever be any changes to the … Read more

Just got back from VFP DevCon 2003 in Palm Springs, California – where the lows were 98 degrees and the highs were 110! Note: Thanks to Ted Roche (www.tedroche.com) who showed me his Blog and inspired me to do the same! Overall, it was a great conference! Great to see both old faces and new! … Read more