Next Wednesday we are having a ‘Show off your application’ night, with 4 presenters getting up and demonstrating their VFP ideas and innovations. The aim is to get a broader understanding of some of the great applications out there, ask questions, and perhaps even make suggestions about how they can be improved. I expect it to be an interesting, informal, collaborative night...
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: here’s me and Michele looking really cute: to Frank for pointing this out.;
June and July have been extremely busy as we geared up for a major software release to ALL our wool industry clients. Long days, heaps of careful planning and some clever deployment. But now the hard work is about to be put to the test… our software goes live at 5am Monday morning (24 July).So far it is all looking good (I’ll even be heading off early tomorrow – Friday –...
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 song is performed for an ecstatic crowd of over 70,000...
Interesting post over on ASP free
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 a helper tool in your developer toolbox. for further information on...
A few people have mentioned the Tiobe index again (I liked Bill Coupe’s post) and VFP sitting at 13.Never mind VFP, I’m still amazed to see how well Visual Basic is doing (still going from strength to strength even though it is no longer officially supported). I was reminded of Google Trends the other day (thanks to Mitch Wheat’s post). So here’s a few...
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
A very interesting message over on the West Wind Message Board about FoxWiki volumehttp://www.west-wind.com/wwThreads/default.asp?msgid=1UA1APSY4 Interesting to read that of the thousands of unique daily hits, only 310 people subscribe the RSS feed. Where do people find the time? I’ve subscribed to the feed for ages, because I just don’t have the time to...
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 page:, if you are in the market for...