Let me tell you something of my shameful past… Some years ago I was very self-conscious, very low in self-esteem and very unconfident as a person. I was one of those people who seemed to find fault in most things other people did. I well remember criticising people over the smallest of things, often publicly, often unfairly. [I’m glad they didn’t have blogs around then or...
A reminder that the Sydney VFP User Group resumes this Wednesday 22 February. 6:30pm at Microsoft HQ, North Ryde. Scott, Eka and I will be presenting. Details on the sitewww.svfpug.com.au
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 Projects at OzFox...
Andrew Coates blogs about his Team System experience here – so far so good. (And yes, like him we are hanging out for the new provider so we can ease it into our VFP development). My comments below are mainly focussed on management (not development). I’m pleased to say our initial experiences are good also (although we are only using it on the .Net side of things so far). We...
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’.
Love this post from Greg Low last year on the ‘quality’ of our local database journalists. And you thought VFP brought out the best in ill-informed press… wonder what Andrew MacNeill thinks of the Builder.AU tag line…
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 Australia, I think you need to be...
Blogger informs me that this is my 200th post. So, how fitting that I can use this milestone to announce a special bonus about OzFox Lite…Thanks to the generosity of Microsoft and in particular Andrew Coates for his great support, I am pleased to say that the registration fee for OzFox Lite will be zero. I’m really glad we can do this, and make OzFox Lite very code-camp like...
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 and ofcourse includes the horrific crash in which drummer Rick Allen lost his left arm.My favourite part is...
You’ve probably seen Craig Boyd’s State of the Language address already, but I want to link to it anyway. I have nothing to add – he says it all.