A big thank you to Andrew MacNeill for also jumping in to help us with our bandwidth issue hosting OzFoxRocks. has been a great supporter and help over the last two months while we got the show organised.Community is a wonderful thing.
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 generally, in Australia.As many of you know I helped put together...
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 the full episode listing herehttp://www.ozfoxrocks...
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…
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 that is probably wise since it is only an Alpha) then please watch this space for more...
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 this problem – the previous IT manager for our client had bought the...
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.
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: : 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 less than ideal internet pipe – unfortunately the download will be a little slow...
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 been doing most of my coding for an existing SQL 2000 project using the Management Studio – hey I just like the abililty...
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 and Rod’s post comparing VFP to C# will quickly...