July 2006

An interesting article in yesterday’s Australian IT caught my eye. This article (here) on Ray Ozzie is interesting to me for the following reasons:1. He promotes simple2. He is a people person3. He is honest about the challenges that Microsoft face However, the reason I link to it here is because I was wondering what possible [...]

I had the pleasure of meeting with Sir Terry Matthews this morning. Thanks to our friends at Ethan Group, Peter Metcalf (Talman’s MD) and I were invited to a small gathering (15 people) with Terry in which he talked about his background (btw the Wikipedia account is not quite correct – the real version is that [...]

Now that I’ve freed up a little, it’s time to catch up on all the important business and technical items. Serious stuff. You know, the kind that we serious manager types need to be addressing. And thus it was high time I got Meegos for me and Michele. Here’s me all excited about Tech*Ed:http://www.craigbailey.net/images/Tech.Chucky.jpg And here’s me [...]

It is 15 years ago to the day that INXS, one of Australia’s greatest ever rock bands, took to the stage at Wembley Stadium and delivered the perfect rock concert. No backup dancers, no fancy lights shows, no silly interludes. Just a sensational rock concert. It showcases exceptional musicianship, as great rock song after great rock [...]

Here’s a quick little screencast on how easy it is to use the Visual FoxPro command line IntelliSense to discover things like object models. In this simple example I use IntelliSense to discover the Outlook object model for emails. Very simple, and aimed at the non-VFP developer to show you how useful VFP can be as [...]

Last week at the Sydney Visual FoxPro User Group we had Rahul Desai and John Burrows speak.Rahul presented on VFP tools including FoxMasters - click here for his summaryJohn presented on Refox – click here for his presentation

Calling Australian Visual FoxPro developers. I need to know your details. I seem to be getting more and more calls these days from people asking for help with customising and extending their VFP systems. Often they are after companies to outsource work to. Currently I recommend a few companies I know personally and direct them to this Wiki [...]