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AKSEL operates on a clear principle: Deliver precise solutions efficiently. In a world where companies often invest heavily in consultants that tend to prolong their stay, amassing hours without effectively addressing core issues, we differentiate ourselves. While understanding the project scope is crucial, we recognize that many businesses already pinpoint their challenges or have envisioned … Read more
What’s coming up? Virtual FoxFest is coming up soon (sessions start October 14th). Like last year, the conference is entirely virtual yet includes great breakdown rooms and sessions to add that nice one-on-one feel that you get in person. It’s also staggered so you can choose which days you want to attend – October 14th, … Read more
https://anildash.com/2021/09/11/twenty-is-myth/ Anil Dash has written a post of remembrance every year since September 11th, 2001 (yes, on the day). His blog has lots of other great things on it – but the ONE post I always look for is his post. We were away at DevCon in San Diego that day. I was up early … Read more
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/the-new-javascript-typescript-experience-in-vs-2022-preview-3/ The promise noted in this announcement sounds very exciting. Sure, you can do most of this already with VS Code – but encouraging this type of development directly in Visual Studio is awesome. The one thing I would like to see is built-in support for Cypress – my e2e testing tool of choice. (Https://www.cypress.it) … Read more
Error handling is an integral part of application development. Unless you are like myself and never release code with bugs 🙂 , the need for clients to tell you what's wrong is important. I've seen a number of error handlers in the past, dating all the way back to Pat Adam's famous FP2ERROR routine (back … Read more
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/load-only-the-projects-you-need-with-solution-filters/ While I don't have a hundreds of projects in a solution, our larger application definitely has a few that don't need to be loaded each time (test apps, etc). It's a great feature but not very discoverable – I can see why they needed a blog post for it. Maybe the VS Team can … Read more
Sometimes the Internet is great – you can find exactly what you’re looking for, quickly and easily. Other times, it takes you down a rabbit hole of different sites that may provide the right answer but, more often than not, the 90% rule is often true. So when we decided to consolidate our multiple git … Read more
AKSEL presented a session on the VueJS framework known as Quasar and how Visual FoxPro developers can harness its power for building future applications. Watch it below: Sessions given at Virtual FoxFest included
From a customer, to a trainer to a partner, Mr. MacNeill has provided Micromega Systems with the support for their leading edge Foxfire! Query & Reporting tool. Foxfire! is a reporting tool that produces easy to understand reports from information in a wide variety of data sources, including SQL Server, Excel, SQL Server Analysis Cubes, and … Read more
2000-Present In 2003, the Forensic Lab section of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had introduced a new Management System (LIMS) and required advanced business reporting and development services. Over the past fifteen years, the system has been updated, extending its original scope. Mr. MacNeill: Technologies Used: Crystal Reports, HTML, SQL Server, FoxPro, Foxfire!, Microsoft Office … Read more