A New Year…A New Month…A New Technology…

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

Olaf’s Blogging

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

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Finding movie information with IMDB.DLL

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

What companies plan their purchases strategically?

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

Southwest Fox 2008 – Make Plans Now

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: In DLL Hell

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

Sad News: Ken Murphy

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