This is an important read for all Visual FoxPro dvelopers finally finished reading the ‘Visual FoxPro Best Practices for the next 10 Years’ ebook this weekend (it was released approx a month ago). I cannot recommend this book highly enough. As you probably know it came out of Whil’s recent Great Lakes Great Database Workshop 2006 and features articles on...
As Craig Boyd and others have pointed out, Visual FoxPro has risen again in the TIOBE index, this time to number 12. It is only an index ofcourse, so we can’t place too much emphasis on it, but on the other hand it does seem a reasonable reflection of VFP’s revival lately. However the thing that concerns me is seeing VB.Net drop down to position 21. This seems...
The ‘Infectious’ Dave Lemphers (you only need to see him present once to see how infectious and passionate this guy is) wrote (a few weeks ago) about ‘Why you should get a degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering’. principle I strongly agree with him. There’s a few problems we face however. One is that post-dot-com there has been a shift in the...
Another Foxie joins us. Oscar has a nice first post about how to create circular forms in VFP. code is very easy to use. To save you the (minute of) trouble of coding a form yourself you can try a simple sample made from his code here. This is ofcourse only the beginning of many things you can do. And there are numerous different approaches (eg see Craig Boyd’s posts on...
I pretty much agree with this article that we should be able to get basic database operations (create, read, update, delete) out of the box. Although our projects are getting more complex, the underlying data integrity requirements don’t really change much. to Adam for pointing this one out to me.
Scott and I slipped a new beta out last week, but wanted to wait a few days before announcing it in case anything serious came out. But initial indications are that this version is a lot more stable, specifically with regard to the Compile error dialog issue. There are still a few quirks (eg one person reported an issue when calling up the debugger) but overall we are pretty happy...
Paul Stovell looks lovingly into the future of Vista error messages…;
I know this is being blogged to death at the moment, so sorry to be adding to the noise… But you’ve got to admit this is exciting news: get too excited, it is not due until the end of 2006, but a CTP is coming around June 11. (from Rob Caron) Incidently, does anyone else think the PressPass page has a bit too much wankspeak?
An interesting night last night with Andrew Coates demoing Vista, Office 2007 Beta and, oh yeah, Visual FoxPro running on Vista Beta 2. First thing to note is that Vista looks great, behaved great, is gonna be great, etc Second thing is that Office 2007 looks great, behaved great, is gonna be great, etc Third thing is that VFP runs great, looks great (most of the time) and is gonna...
This (old) article on the ‘tyranny’ of IT departments caught my eye: sure we’ve all had experiences both positive and negative dealing with IT departments. But what interested me most was how many comments there were – so many people felt the need to ‘share’ their experience (most in defence of IT departments interestingly enough). I’d never have thought...