From the monthly archives:

January 2006

DOTNET: Adam Cogan on Dot Net Rocks

January 29, 2006General Tech

A very interesting chat with Sydney based Adam Cogan on .Net Rocks. The focus is on using rules (I’d prefer to call them guidelines) in your software development company. Many of the rules are project management and marketing based, aswell as Coding and Naming convention standards, so this is a great resource for any software house [...]

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SCIENCE: Possible evidence for string theory coming soon

January 28, 2006General Tech

http://physorg.com/news10295.html This will be of limited interest, although my wife will love it. When we were in Switzerland this time last year Michele spent a weekend down at CERN - she was in her element there. 

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COMPUTING: Installer hell

January 28, 2006General Tech

Rick Schummer writes about the importance of testing your installers on a non-dev machine. I couldn’t agree more. Especially important is the uninstall process which he also highlights. I shake my head though at how complex the install process has become. I liked this guy’s comments about installing an app – why can’t we just copy [...]

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VFP: OzFox Lite update (Australian and New Zealand Visual FoxPro conference)

January 28, 2006General Tech

Thanks to everyone who has been supporting OzFox Lite so far. I have been pleased to receive registrations from a whole bunch of people I have never heard of , so word is certainly getting around. I have you, the community, to thank for that. Please keep it up. For those who don’t know about [...]

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PERSONAL: Achievement versus Contribution

January 28, 2006General Tech

One thing that struck me at the funeral (mentioned in my previous post) earlier this week was how much contribution the guy (his name was Rob) made to the local community. It came out later privately from close family that he was actually very successful in business and quite wealthy as a result. However, the focus at [...]

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PERSONAL: Thankful

January 28, 2006General Tech

This past week started on a sad note. We were down in Canberra to attend a funeral for a good friend’s father who had been killed in a car accident. After the funeral (then cremation service, then wake) we drove back to Sydney. We were exhausted after a long day. But we were so thankful for [...]

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VFP: Kevin Ragsdale’s day ends at breakfast

January 21, 2006General Tech

One thing I realised after listening back to our latest OzFoxRocks episode is that a small chunk of discussion didn’t make it into the final mixdown.When we discussed promoting VFP we made mention of Craig Boyd’s promos and in particular the phrase: ‘Does more before breakfast than other languages do all day’ As Craig Boyd’s post [...]

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VFP: Catching up on my Fox Show backlog

January 18, 2006General Tech

I’m still about 4 or 5 episodes behind on my Fox Show listening… So I started with the most recent show with John Petersen’s views on legal issues. This is an important issue and one all developers need to be grappling with. In my experience the smaller shops tend to put legal issues in the ‘that’s for [...]

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VFP: Win32 Offline ApiViewer

January 14, 2006General Tech

For those of you using Win32 functions in your VFP apps this will be of major interest. I won’t go into all the great features, just go to the site, download it and buy it now.Highly recommended.http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?article=12 And at $20 it is a steal. (Note: I have told Anitoliy that I think the $20 price is rediculously low [...]

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VFP: The Visual FoxPro Tipping Point

January 12, 2006General Tech

The Visual FoxPro Tipping Point There is a VFP Surge on at present. 2005 was a good year for Visual FoxPro and 2006 could turn out to be the VFP Tipping Point. Those familiar with Malcolm Gladwell’s famous book may see some similarities to the VFP environment at present. But first a quick recap of relevant important events in [...]

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VFP: OzFoxRocks! Episode 2 – Aussie Visual FoxPro podcast

January 12, 2006General Tech

Scott and I have posted Episode 2 of OzFoxRocks (which, statistically, means we have had an episode a year… <g>).  You can check it out here: www.ozfoxrocks.comthe content listing is here: http://www.ozfoxrocks.com/Default.aspx?tabid=55 Subscribe to the feed here: http://www.ozfoxrocks.com/Portals/0/Episodes/rss.xml Enjoy

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VFP: VFP Tetris

January 11, 2006General Tech

I know this is an old one…http://foxpro9.blogspot.com/    

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DRUMS: 12 year old amazing drummer

January 9, 2006General Tech

Unbelievablehttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1581867722104021421

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VFP: Learning VFP

January 5, 2006General Tech

Do you feel ‘The Surge’? The VFP Surge is building. Everyday new resources are popping up. Andrew MacNeill’s excellent collection point arrived just before New Yearhttp://learningvfp.blogspot.com/ And I just stumbled upon this new one from Tom Meekshttp://vfpstart.blogspot.com/  Could 2006 be The VFP Tipping Point?

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VFP: Craig Boyd Promos

January 5, 2006General Tech

Give me 10 Craig Boyds and I could rule the world… http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/SPSBlog/PermaLink,guid,8d70e9cb-56e8-4b38-9902-709a06d76717.aspx and  http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/SPSBlog/PermaLink,guid,7aecf09c-50e5-4d76-811b-94871ad05ccc.aspx Great stuff  

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VFP: Sydney VFP User Group returns on 22 Feb 2006

January 5, 2006General Tech

I’ve posted a prelimiary timetable for the Sydney VFP User Group for 2006.Notice that we will have Scott Scovell presenting every month on VFP Design patterns. Exciting stuff. I’m looking for more presenters – please let me know if you are willing and able. This year we will have some consistency for each of the meetings. Firstly [...]

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