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SOFTWARE: Office 2007 Upgrade stumbles

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...

VFP: Doug Bower’s UG presentation on MYOB ODBC

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:

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VFP: Chris Sainty’s VFP UG presentation

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:
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VFP: Sydney VFP User Group on tonight

Don’t miss our final VFP user group for the year.
Tonight Chris Sainty, Rahul Desai and Doug Bower will be presenting.
More details on the Sydney Visual FoxPro User Group web site.
Technorati tags: Visual FoxPro, Sydney, User Group

PERSONAL: Congratulations to Michele

The results came out on Monday, and I’m very proud to inform that Michele has been awarded First Class Honours in her Psychology degree. Further, her thesis on Happiness has been recommended for publication (this is a big thing in psychology as it needs to be peer reviewed before any reputable psychology publication will even consider it – unlike say the IT field where publication is...

PERSONAL: Twin Cities update

So, life is interesting in Minneapolis currently. The last week has been very child focussed {g}. Jack (my newest nephew) and Jackie came home from hospital and are doing well. I now have a great empathy for new parents. Not that I’ve had anywhere near the stress, joy, lack of sleep, concern, excitement and life that James and Jackie have had this last week, but I’ve certainly...

PERSONAL: Australia prominent in US news

Great to see that Australia looms large on the global arena. After reading through USA Today, Investor’s Business Daily and The Wall Street Journal, here’s the sum total of the references to Australia (down the bottom of the screenshot).Makes me proud. Here’s the lame article it refers to in Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph.No wonder many countries are bemused about us folks...

PERSONAL: Happy Turkey Day

Today is Thanksgiving Day in the US. Being an ignorant Australian I knew very little about what the day celebrated. Wikipedia gives a decent overview here. See also the entry (some unverified) about Squanto.
Have a great day folks.

PERSONAL: Minneapolis update

Note: This is a personal (and thus perhaps boring to many) post. A while back I combined all my blogs into one and simply prefixed each post title with a label. So, if you are only interested in VFP then feel free to skip this and any other non-VFP related entries :-) But, to the readers who have stayed on (hi Mum) I hope you enjoy the update: The last few days have been great. We started out...

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