Oak Leaf Enterprises is proud to announce version 1.0 of its Mere Mortals .NET Framework. This enterprise-level development tool consists of a powerful component-based framework. Based on solid object oriented design and patterns, MM .NET simplifies many common data access and rule validation tasks, reducing the amount of code you need to write. Business objects … Read more

If you are really clever , and want to reduce the size of your distribution severely, then you can use UPX to pack the files – if you use “upx –best –crp-ms=999999 –nrv2d [filename]”, then you can get vfp7r.dll and vfp7renu.dll down to 1.8 MB, for both of the files!   http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFPRuntimeCompression

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak drops stealth: wireless tracking in 900 MHz, ubiquitously (free reg. required): Woz’s company, Wheels of Zeus (WOZ, get it?) has a device that can opportunistically use any local network operating in its format to report on GPS-identified whereabouts of people, animals, and things. WOZ uses the 900 MHz unlicensed band, and … Read more

From Computer World: A widespread flaw affecting all Windows versions, including Windows Server 2003, is raising user doubts about the efficacy of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing initiative.   http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,83221,00.html?f=x10   You know, I appreciate being told about flaws. I even like getting bug fixes every now and then but for the media to decry flaws as … Read more

The business-reports software company will buy Crystal Decisions in a deal valued at $820 million, the latest in a series of buyouts reshaping the business software market. Business Objects is the company who has a lawsuit with patents on the ability to create SQL statements based on friendly database terms (such as with a data … Read more

Here’s a Microsoft article on bringing speech functionality into your Web applications with this set of development tools, based on the Speech Application Language Tags specification.   http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetspeech/html/VUIBstPrcF.asp   Equally applicable to Desktop applications as well. May use some of these in my new project FoxVoice (a speech enabled development environment for VFP!)   The concept … Read more

You’ve seen them wandering through airports and conference centers, holding laptops up at strange angles and squinting at the screens. They move slowly forward, then backward. Then they often scratch their heads, stow their computers and wander off muttering. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/17/technology/circuits/17find.html?ex=1373860800&en=36beec7942dd5c08&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

Interesting survey results from Advisor.com survey:   Current Results:28% – Using now15% – Testing now31% – Intend to use11% – Probably will use16% – No use anticipated  

Ok – I know everyone says it’s a tough market out there for FoxPro but maybe it’s just that people are being too picky about the work they want to do! Case in point: there’s an on-site job in Kingston for 5 months. The catch? It’s FoxPro 2.0 DOS. They want changes, they want lots … Read more

Wearing Multiple Hats: See why it’s better to take a walk in someone else’s shoes every now and then… See http://foxproadvisor.com/doc/12541 for the full editorial