I trust you’ve all seen the links Ken Levy posted this past week (and if this is the first time you’ve heard about them then you really need to widen your blog reading <g> – mandatory reading are Ken, Rick and FoxWiki) Here’s a summary of the links: Microsoft Visual FoxPro Microsoft PressPass article on VFP9 VFP9 supported by Microsoft until 2014 ENT News RedmondMag...
I’ve added new entries to the Sydney VFP User Group and OzFox blogs latelywww.ozfox.blogspot.comwww.svfpug.blogspot.com
I’ve been playing with Help Builder again (I used an earlier version for a while) and have to say this really is one of the best products I’ve used in a long time. And here I’m talking about the effort to productivity ratio. This is a product you can install and use straight away to create really good help files. (To be fair I haven’t tried any others to compare it with...
OK, so I really like some of the ideas behind A9 (the history, diary, references are great) but speed is why it is not going to be a success.It’s too slow. And by slow I mean it takes more than a second to display resources.Google is king due to speed (search result accuracy is not really a factor).A9 needs to pick up speed by a factor of 5 atleast if it is going to be competitive.Its only...
I was sick yesterday for the first time in about 2.5 years. Something dodgy I ate because I was up all night doing what you do when you are violently ill, but was pretty good by the next morning. Anyway without grossing you out too much there is always a good side to things. In the case of being sick: it is hard to read, write, work on your PC etc so all you can do is think (and play a little...