From the monthly archives:

December 2006

TRAVEL: New York is safe

December 30, 2006General Tech

One of the things that pleasantly surprised us about New York last week, is how safe you feel. If you are like me (ie ill-informed most of the time {g}) and haven’t been to New York recently, then you probably still have visions of the crime ridded New York of a decade ago. Well that has [...]

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TRAVEL: Make sure you get Sydney right

December 30, 2006General Tech

Whilst this news story (here) sounds a little bit suspicious (it is too early to check it on Snopes yet), it does raise an important point… if you are coming to OzFox 2007 from overseas, make sure you end up in Sydney (Australia) not those other differently spelled cities that sound similar.
Technorati tags: OzFox 2007, [...]

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VFP: OzFox 2007 – Last 2 days for Early Bird price

December 29, 2006General Tech

Just a quick reminder to anyone aiming to take advantage of the OzFox 2007 Speacial Early Bird price – it finishes this Sunday.
www.ozfox.com.au
And, a big, big thank you to Rick Schummer, Andrew MacNeill and Steve Black (FoxWiki) for their support – it is very much appreciated.

Technorati tags: Visual FoxPro, Conference, OzFox 2007, Sydney

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PERSONAL: Back from New York

December 29, 2006General Tech

Michele and I managed to get away to New York for a few days last week. It was our first time there, and we were totally blown away. What a fantastic, vibrant, busy, diverse, over-the-top city. Michele wants to move there.
We only had time to spend 4 days in Manhatten, but we crammed in as [...]

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VFP: New OzFox 2007 site + extended special price

December 8, 2006General Tech

We’ve updated the OzFox 2007 site (check it out here) – hope you like it.
There’s a few more details appearing about sessions (try here), and an enhanced call for local speakers (here) with the prize being a free registration to OzFox!
You can also subscribe to the OzFox newsletter (I’ll be sending that out later), but [...]

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LINK: Indexed – check this out

December 8, 2006General Tech

A must view:
http://indexed.blogspot.com/
(via Rex Sorgatz, via Anil Dash)

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SOFTWARE: Office 2007 Upgrade stumbles

December 2, 2006General Tech

So, I ‘finally’ {g} upgraded to Office 2007. Nothing particularly interesting about that, except to say that I too am indebted to Scott Hanselman (along with many thousands around the globe…)
I experienced the dreaded ‘…cannot upgrade from a prerelease version of 2007 Microsoft Office system…’ message.
But Scott guided me through it all with his great [...]

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VFP: Doug Bower’s UG presentation on MYOB ODBC

December 1, 2006General Tech

Another great session from the Sydney VFP User Group on Wednesday.
Doug Bower covered interfacing with the MYOB ODBC driver. His code and samples have been posted on the UG website here: http://www.svfpug.com.au/assets/2006/November2006DougBowerMYOBODBC.zip

Technorati tags: Visual FoxPro, Sydney, User Group, MYOB, ODBC, Doug Bower

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VFP: Chris Sainty’s VFP UG presentation

December 1, 2006General Tech

Sounds like Wednesday night’s Sydney VFP UG was a ripper! I’m disappointed I wasn’t able to be there.
Chris Sainty has a quick rundown of his topic on his blog here plus a link to the materials he presented.
There is also a link on the UG web site: http://www.svfpug.com.au/assets/2006/November2006ChrisPerformance.zip
Technorati tags: Visual FoxPro, User Group, Sydney, Chris Sainty

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