From the monthly archives:

October 2005

VFP: Thanks Andrew MacNeill

October 28, 2005 General Tech

A big thank you to Andrew MacNeill for also jumping in to help us with our bandwidth issue hosting OzFoxRocks.http://akselsoft.blogspot.com/2005/10/ozfoxrocks-direct-link.htmlAndrew has been a great supporter and help over the last two months while we got the show organised.Community is a wonderful thing.
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VFP: Microsoft supports VFP

October 26, 2005 General Tech

I’ve seen a few threads on UT lately where people have been questioning Microsoft’s support for VFP. And I guess this isn’t really a new view for some people.However I’d like to challenge the notion. So, let me list a few of the areas where Microsoft has been supporting me personally, and the VFP community [...]

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VFP: OzFoxRocks! Reloaded

October 26, 2005 General Tech

If you tried to download the first episode of OzFoxRocks in the last few days and gave up because it was taking so long then please try again. Thanks to Andrew Coates and Microsoft we now have the mp3 file hosted on a nice fast site.You can download the file directly herehttp://ozfoxrocks.members.winisp.net/files/ozfoxrocks1.mp3You can check out [...]

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PERSONAL: Happy 39th Anniversary

October 22, 2005 General Tech

Congratulations to Reg and Pam (my parents-in-law) on their 39th Wedding anniversary today.Next year’s anniversary is gonna be big. Start the celebration plans now I say…
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VFP: FoxTabs – the beta is coming

October 22, 2005 General Tech

Scott and I are very thankful for all the support and feedback we’ve had about FoxTabs so far. A number of bugs and some great suggestions have been highlighted.To this end we thought it worth mentioning that we plan to release the Beta in approx 2 weeks time. If you’ve avoided FoxTabs so far (and [...]

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SECURITY: Hotmail + whois = beware

October 22, 2005 General Tech

I thought I’d pass on this anecdote from Magic Dave (one of our techies).We host a fair few websites for clients and sometimes clients transfer sites from other hosts to us.
Normally this goes pretty smoothly unless the client’s IT manager who set up all the DNS settings has left the company. Last week we had [...]

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VFP: Sydney VFP User Group this Wed 26 Oct

October 22, 2005 General Tech

The Sydney VFP User Group is on again this Wednesday.This month we have David Bower and Paul Tikotin presenting.Further details here: www.svfpug.com.auWe are back at our usual venue at Microsoft this month. See you at 6:30pm.
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VFP: OzFoxRocks! – Aussie VFP podcast

October 21, 2005 General Tech

Scott and I have started an Australian based Visual FoxPro podcast.In our first episode we interview Andrew Coates. You can check it out here: www.ozfoxrocks.comThe content listing is here: http://www.ozfoxrocks.com/Default.aspx?tabid=52Note: this is being hosted free of charge by the company we work for (thanks Talman), so for now we are on a server with a [...]

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SVFPUG: Never, ever demo beta stuff

October 8, 2005 General Tech

I had a rather frustrating time at the Sydney VFP UG this week.
I had foolishly put myself down to give an overview of SQL Server 2005 based on the Beta 2 version (July CTP I think).It has been sitting on my notebook for a few months now and all seems OK. In fact I have [...]

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VFP: VFP and Strings

October 2, 2005 General Tech

Very interesting post from Calvin on string performance here and his follow up here.I think this is an important read for all FoxPro programmers for the simple reason that we (arrogantly sometimes I think) can fall into the ‘VFP is great at string manipulation and I don’t have to worry about optimising my code’ trap.Markus [...]

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