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I have (first correction – thanks Matt!) been pulling together links for a larger “start of the year” post and decided to scale it back and try something a bit different. The various sites that AKSEL manages will be going through a “re-branding” exercise in the near future but one of my goals this year … Read more
The latest episode of The FoxShow features one of my sessions from Southwest Fox 2008: Profiling and Refactoring, a discussion on how to refactor and how the VFPX Code Analyst can help. This session was given twice : this was the second time around. It was a good discussion including a back and forth on … Read more
One of the great sponsor giveaways at Southwest Fox was a 5-user license of SourceGear’s Fortress. I’ve used Vault and Fortress but still stick with Source OffSite as our main development is handled through SourceSafe. Both work great with VFP. But the best part was in the conference bag: Evil Mastermind 2nd Exciting Issue! Best … Read more
After what I would have to say was a great showcase of VFP Conference -tweeting , Olaf’s started blogging…on one of his first posts, he shows how to do a Matrix-style screen in Cryllic, in FoxPro of course! Welcome, Olaf! Olaf’s VFP Blog
OK – I don’t know how long he’ll be able to continue calling it IMDB.DLL – but this DLL totally rocks. Samir has created a very easy to use DLL that retrieves movie information directly from the IMDB database. As easy as:REGSVR32 IMDB.DLLoIMDB = CREATEOBJECT(“imdb.imdb”)oIMDB.Login(‘andrew@aksel.com’,’Password123′)? oimdb.Search(“Smallville”)? oimdb.Search(“The Fountainhead”)? oimdb._GetWriters() && Returns a string of values … Read more
Craig Bailey posted this link on Twitter regarding Sun’s lacklustre performance last quarter – Jonathan Schwartz’s Blog: Our Q3 Choice quotes: “Why don’t you just stop giving your software away? Because we prioritize developer adoption. Let me give an example….the MySQL team had scored a design win – ahead of the proprietary competition. What should … Read more
Developers create a lot of little “snippets” that help them in a lot of different scenarios. Some of them evolve into larger tools; others turn into hidden gems that get shared among a small select few. (hmmm….SET TANGENT ON ….sounds like an interesting idea for a VFPX project – a snippet sharer – damn! don’t … Read more
So registration is now open for Southwest Fox 2008. I think it’s always hard for a conference web site to do it justice. You can show either pictures of the speakers , the facilities or the food – repeat the testimonials from previous years – but the question remains: How best to sell 3-4 days … Read more
Kevin Ragsdale’s FoxPro Blog: DLL Hell Rears It’s Ugly Head Kevin reports on a problem that I’ve also been hit with (but was never able to track down properly – it just “went away”). The upgrade to VFP SP2 killed one of his apps – why? Invalid DLLs all over the place. But Kevin notes … Read more
I just read through some MVP news as well as the posting on Foxite that Ken Murphy passed away. If you aren’t familiar with Ken, he was a regular community member on Foxite – it seemed that sometimes he was there 24 hours a day with how quickly he posted, and how he always encouraged … Read more