December 2005

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=1260#whatwedoBut it makes we wonder what filters they use for identifying spam [...]

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:http://akselsoft.blogspot.com/2005/12/redmond-column-foxpro-not-endangered.htmlIf we are to have any chance of getting users excited about FoxPro then we atleast need to make our [...]

The final Sydney VFP User Group meeting for 2005 is on next Wednesday 14 December. See you at 6:30pm at Microsoft for pizza and drinks. A great bunch of talks and cool prizes make this a great year-end get together. Eka, Paul, John and I will be presenting. Our question time will be looking at strategies for moving your app from VFP to SQL [...]