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VFP: Craig Boyd and FoxPro Visibility

Yet another ‘right on brother’ moment with Craig Boyd’s clear outline of why FoxPro is getting noticed more and more these days. Read it here: a stack to like in this post but a few key points for me are: 1. Craig is essentially talking about ‘the right tool for the job’ as his cry for the Fox – I think it is great to play to the...

VFP: OzFox Lite – exciting speaker news : Greg Low

I’m very excited to announce that we now have SQL Server legend Greg Low giving two sessions at OzFox Lite. Greg Low is a Microsoft MVP in SQL Server, and one of only two Microsoft Regional Directors in Australia (the other is Adam Cogan, also talking at OzFox Lite). You can view Greg’s profile here. At OzFox Lite we will be covering using VFP with SQL Server in detail...

VFP: FoxTabs beta 0.3.1 update

For those interested, we have released a minor update to the FoxTabs beta. It is available here: have been trying to come up with a workaround to the crash on compile fail issue (Scott blogged about it here). There are a few dirty hacks used in this version to overcome the crash (but use it at your own risk {g}).Please let us know on the forum if you have any successes or failures. this...

VFP: Sydney Visual FoxPro User Group session links

I’ve finally updated the sessions from last months Sydney VFP UGScott‘s talk on ‘Design Patterns in VFP’ is hereMy talk on ‘VFP business skills: Promoting VFP to customers’ is here  This month (March 29) we have Scott back, along with John Burrows, and me.

VFP: OzFox Lite – 2 weeks to go – register now

Just a reminder that there is only 2 weeks to go until OzFox Rocks hits Sydney on March 25 and 26. Register nowIf you haven’t registered already then please register on the Microsoft Events site here: you have already registered…If you already registered by emailing me, could you please re-register on the Microsoft Event site – this is important because Micrsosoft are...

VFP: When is community not community?

Let me tell you something of my shameful past… Some years ago I was very self-conscious, very low in self-esteem and very unconfident as a person. I was one of those people who seemed to find fault in most things other people did. I well remember criticising people over the smallest of things, often publicly, often unfairly. [I’m glad they didn’t have blogs around then or...

VFP: OzFox Lite update

I’m excited to announce we have Adam Cogan and Sunny Chandra speaking at OzFox Lite. Adam is one of only two Microsoft Regional Directors in Australia and an internationally recognised authority on .Net, SQL Server, Team System, Project Management and various ‘Rules’ (which he recently discussed on .Net Rocks). He will be discussing Rules to Successful Projects at OzFox...

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