From the monthly archives:

March 2006

VFP: Australian Visual FoxPro developer network

March 30, 2006General Tech

One thing we discussed at OzFox Lite was getting a list of Australian Fox developers together, the aim being that we could then contact each other as required. You can check out the Networking presentation here:http://www.svfpug.com.au/assets/2006/VFPBusinessSkills/index.htm?page=_1PC11HGY6.htm One action item was for everyone to add their details to the new page on Fox Wiki. So, here’s a [...]

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VFP: UT Mags available to all

March 30, 2006General Tech

I know this is old news now, but if you haven’t heard, Universal Thread is making their two magazines available free to Universal Thread members. You can read about it here:http://www.universalthread.com/News/MagazineFree.asp Even at Sydney VFP UG the other night there were still some people who don’t use UT – if that is you then what could [...]

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VFP: OzFox 2007?

March 30, 2006General Tech

Since OzFox Lite on the weekend, I’ve been trying to catch up on work – I’m way behind. So, one thing I am lagging on is explaining our thoughts for the full OzFox (or OzFox Heavy as some have started referring to it as). For now I have put a brief summary of the feedback from attendees [...]

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VFP: More OzFox Lite sessions up

March 30, 2006General Tech

I’ve posted a few more of the sessions from OzFox Lite up on the site. They include Andrew Coates’ session using VFP with SQL Express (see also his blog post pointing to the management tools), Eka’s on SQL Tips and Rahul’s awesome whitepaper on converting VFP up to SQL (22 pages of great discussion). www.ozfox.com.au

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VFP: OzFox thanks Win32ApiViewer

March 30, 2006General Tech

I’m still getting through my thank yous from OzFox Lite. And one that I should have mentioned earlier is a big thank you to Anatoliy for generously donating a few copies of his excellent Win32 Offline viewer to the conference. I know you all know this, but I’m gonna say it again anyway – I reckon [...]

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VFP: Doug is blogging about FoxPro, Jamie too

March 30, 2006General Tech

Great to see Doug Hennig blogging here:http://doughennig.blogspot.com With Craig and Rick this means the full admin team of SednaX is all blogging now Also great to see Jamie Osbourne blogging again – I agree with his thoughts on Dev tools driving the real cash cows…

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NET: CodeCampOz is coming up at the end of April

March 29, 2006General Tech

Here’s another reminder to Australian developers to get along to CodeCampOz in just under a month’s time. Covering .Net, SQL 2K5 and BizTalk aswell as general developer skills, this is an excellent 2 days of learning. It is organised by Greg Low and Mitch Denny. btw if anyone is interested, here’s my post about last year’s event.

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TFS: The pain of Windows updates?

March 28, 2006General Tech

Scotty Wakefield blogs about how our Team Foundation Server went down over the weekend. Most likely due to a Windows Update on the SQL Server, but we’re still not sure. And no, before you ask, we don’t have Automatic updates on (who in their right mind would on a production server?) But in Australia we’ve [...]

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VFP: FoxPro User Group speakers to be given prizes?

March 28, 2006General Tech

One of the great things about an event like OzFox Lite is that you get to see how talented some of our local Fox developers are. What a shame we don’t see more of them speaking at user groups. In fact, what a shame we don’t have more user groups! So, let me remind you (and I [...]

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VFP: How to start blogging

March 28, 2006General Tech

At OzFox Lite I encouraged people to start blogging (especially the speakers… why present to just 50 people when you could be presenting to hundreds all around the world?). I figure the more people blogging about Fox the better. And in response I’ve had a number of people ask how they can start blogging. So, here are two [...]

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VFP: Sydney VFP User group is ON tomorrow night (Wednesday 29 March)

March 28, 2006General Tech

Just confirming that the Sydney Visual FoxPro User Group is ON tomorrow night.Unfortunately Scott has had to pull out of his presentation, but John Burrows and I will be presenting.We’ll be resuming our Q+A time as well. See you there, 6:30pm at Microsoft, North Ryde.www.svfpug.com.au

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VFP: More OzFox Stuff – Craig Boyd keynote

March 27, 2006General Tech

Two of the mini-highlights of the conference were the OzFox Lite promo and keynote by Craig Boyd. I’ve now copied both up to the web site for your enjoyment. The promo is roughly 3MB and can be found here. The opening keynote is 22MB and can be found here. Visual FoxPro Rocks! Enjoy. There are other links being added as [...]

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VFP: Threader code again

March 27, 2006General Tech

Not sure why the previous post got chopped, but here it is again… The code from my session on simulating multi-threading in VFP (Visual FoxPro) is available from the OzFox site (go to the Session descriptions page here and scroll to the bottom). I had a whole bunch of suggestions over the weekend to improve it, so I [...]

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VFP: Threader code from OzFox Lite is available

March 27, 2006General Tech

The code from my session on simulating multi-threading in VFP is available from the OzFox site (go to the Session descriptions page here and scroll to the bottom). I had a whole bunch of suggestions over the weekend to improve it, so I may update this in the coming weeks. Also, check out the great OzFox Lite promo [...]

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NET: CodeCampOz and CodeCampNZ

March 27, 2006General Tech

Developers around Australia and New Zealand, you should be making your way to one of the code camps coming up in late April. For Australian devs I can wholeheartedly recommend CodeCampOz, co-organised by Greg Low, one of our speakers at OzFox Lite. I was there last year and can tell you it is a great place [...]

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VFP: OzFox is over – Visual foxPro conference

March 27, 2006General Tech

And before you knew it, it was over… Well, we certainly had a great time over the weekend.For anyone looking to make contact with the speakers, here is a quick overview of how to contact some of them:Adam CoganGreg LowAndrew CoatesChris SaintySunny ChandraJohn BurrowsPaul HemansLarry McIntoshEkasenn TjhauwRahul Desai I will be posting session notes during the week [...]

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VFP: OzFox is go

March 25, 2006General Tech

I’m writing this at the end of the first day of OzFox Lite. Andrew Coates is in the home stretch of his talk on VFP and SQL Express. After this we head out to dinner and then some Xbox 360 action (yes Microsoft have come through with a 360!). All in all I am extremely pleased with [...]

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VFP: Capturing screen images

March 21, 2006General Tech

A great post by Cesar Chalom referring to code from Brazilian Gelson Bremm.http://weblogs.foxite.com/cesarchalom/archive/2006/03/20/1309.aspx The post has code for using VFP to capture screen portions via Win 32 calls. No other controls required. Cesar has been putting out a bunch of GDI+ articles over the last 2 months. Well worth checking out.http://weblogs.foxite.com/cesarchalom/default.aspx

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VFP: OzFox Lite is on this weekend

March 20, 2006General Tech

Yes, only a few days to go until OzFox.www.ozfox.com.au I guess if you’ve been reading my blog then you don’t need reminding about all the great stuff that is happening at the conference. But in case you are looking for a quick summary of reasons to come (say, to tell a friend), then here are my [...]

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VFP: Andy Kramek’s Better Code

March 17, 2006General Tech

Andy’s articles are one of the reasons I like blogs so much. These days most of my learning comes from blogs due to their easily readable, small bite, immediately available format. I find the published formats less attractive these days (sadly I usually have a pile of FoxTalks, Advisors and other mags gathering dust on my [...]

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