ArchiveDecember 2005

I’m sure you all know how fantastic the Win32 site is: yet another reason…

Rick writes about his frustration with Dell courtesy of his new notebook. Well, I’m glad to say I have had the exact opposite experience. My new Dell turned up a few weeks back (on the exact day they said they would deliver it no less) and all worked fine. The only issue was a slightly noisy fan sound. It didn’t really bother me until Castro at work took delivery of his and I...

Boy am I looking forward to a break next week (I plan to take a few days off in addition to the regular public holidays).  The last 2-3 months have been incredibly hectic. I’ve worked most weekends and a lot of nights finishing projects (or atleast trying to!), working on proposals and even making some wins. Last week Talman welcomed a very experienced Senior VFP Developer to the team...

A few of the sessions from last week’s meeting are on the UG site:Eka’s presentation on new SQL stuff is here (and Eka when are you going to start blogging?)Scott‘s quick tips are hereMy quick tips are here Thanks to everyone for their support this year – it has been a great year with some excellent sessions. I’d like to especially thank Andrew Coates...

The thing I like about Whil’s conference description is how he is focussing on best practice. A little while back Scott and I discussed the need for better design in the VFP development space. Our basic point was that VFP’s ease of use had often lead to an abandonement of proper analysis and design in many projects (not least our own!).  To this end Scott will be presenting...

There comes a stage in young man’s life… (well kinda young) Well, I thought it would never happen, but I have now officially entered that stage of life where the BBQ is a prominent feature. Got this little beauty on Saturday and it has been BBQ central at our place ever since. I love this time of year. December is probably my favourite month. The weather is warm, but not too...

Posting from Qumana has been difficult lately as I’ve been flagged as a potential spam blogger. To their credit Blogger is very apologetic about it and explained what they are trying to do to stop misuse of blogs. Good on ’em I say. it makes we wonder what filters they use for identifying spam blogs. The only thing I could think of is that I use the word ‘VFP’ a lot…

Interesting post from Scott Scovell on using AMEMBERS in a FOR EACH..NEXT loop.How many times have you spent hours chasing a little gotcha like this?

UPDATE: Scott’s atom feed is at

A few people have written their thoughts on Mary Jo Foley’s article on VFPhttp://redmondmag.com/columns/article.asp?editorialsid=1166I liked Andrew MacNeill’s discussion, and in particular his closing appeal that we need to make our users excited. Read it all here: we are to have any chance of getting users excited about FoxPro then we atleast need to make our products attractive...

From the looks of it this is a certification that actually carries some weight.  only in pilot the program looks very comprehensive.  Microsoft (and other vendor) certification programs come in for a fair bit of criticism (and rightly so) as to the actual competency they indicate, given that brain dumps are all over the place – ie passing the exams might be nothing more...