Where are the MS Fox Blogs?

OK – MS has jumped big-time on the Blogging bandwagon – so my question is: where are the MS Fox Blogs?   I can appreciate that Calvin and a few others may be too busy to discuss but seriously, Ken, Randy and Yag should all have blogs going at this stage.    

SQL TOP N – Watch Out in VFP 8 and earlier

The TOP N clause in VFP 8 doesn’t work reliably unless you put in more than one sort order. ( and even then it’s a bit funky)   Consider the CUSTOMER table. USE HOME(2)+”NORTHWINDcustomers”SELECT TOP 5 * from customers ORDER BY 1 This gives you only the first 5 records.   But if you add another … Read more

MS Researching Blogs

I posted this as a comment to Teds but wanted to put it here as well: What’s interesting about Wallop is the comments I read after they presented it at PDC. Someone referred to it as a “bliki”, a cross between a Blog and a Wiki. A Blog really is just like a personal Wiki, … Read more

Gator Feature: Custom Newspages

I found this out from the forum but I thought I would share it here because there are some gotchas with this.   So you’ve switched from FeedDemon to NewsGator but find yourself missing the Newspaper view (like I did). Fear not – you can do the same thing with NewsGator , at least to … Read more

Be careful of IE Security

Just something I discovered. I had reset my IE security to high for some reason or another and then tried to log into various sites and found they wouldn’t work.   Here’s why: IE Security Settings on High DISABLE support for META REFRESH , a feature that many web sites use while processing data. Check … Read more