February 2006

I’m excited to announce we have Adam Cogan and Sunny Chandra speaking at OzFox Lite. Adam is one of only two Microsoft Regional Directors in Australia and an internationally recognised authority on .Net, SQL Server, Team System, Project Management and various ‘Rules’ (which he recently discussed on .Net Rocks). He will be discussing Rules to Successful [...]

I totally agree with this post from Rory Primrose on the importance of great UI design. Fox developers in particular need to be mindful of this – use it to your advantage. Remember ’Perception is everything’.

I’ve been going through the Barnardos (a kid’s charity) annual report. Part of the reason for reviewing the report is to ensure our dollars are used the best they can be – ie are we getting the best ‘return’ on our charitable ‘investment’.[Sorry if this sounds too clinical, but with over 1,000 registered charities in [...]

During my holidays this week I watched a documentary on the making of Hysteria – one of the classic rock albums of all time. I was stunned to learn of all the trials the band had to overcome in order to get this album out. It took 4 years, required firing the first two producers [...]

Thanks to Craig Boyd for summarising the FoxPro conferences this year (and I note Milind has done likewise here). Note that in the comments on Craig Boyd’s post there is a pointer to the Brazilian conference coming in the ’1st Semeter of 2006′.  [As an aside, it would be nice if we could pick up comments [...]

I’m having a break for a week. This is one of my ‘forced’ holidays. Basically I have a habit of overdoing it workwise and then falling over with burnout. Not that I’m a workaholic or anything, rather I just don’t get any internal warning when I am about to crash. So, I decided this year [...]