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VFP: OzFox Lite update (Australian and New Zealand Visual FoxPro conference)

Thanks to everyone who has been supporting OzFox Lite so far. I have been pleased to receive registrations from a whole bunch of people I have never heard of :-), so word is certainly getting around. I have you, the community, to thank for that. Please keep it up. For those who don’t know about OzFox Lite yet, please check out the site (www.ozfox.com.au) for details. It is looking...

PERSONAL: Achievement versus Contribution

One thing that struck me at the funeral (mentioned in my previous post) earlier this week was how much contribution the guy (his name was Rob) made to the local community. It came out later privately from close family that he was actually very successful in business and quite wealthy as a result. However, the focus at his funeral was on his huge contribution to local community ventures...

PERSONAL: Thankful

This past week started on a sad note. We were down in Canberra to attend a funeral for a good friend’s father who had been killed in a car accident. After the funeral (then cremation service, then wake) we drove back to Sydney. We were exhausted after a long day. But we were so thankful for how fortunate we are compared to some. Lately there have been many around us undergoing...

VFP: Kevin Ragsdale’s day ends at breakfast

One thing I realised after listening back to our latest OzFoxRocks episode is that a small chunk of discussion didn’t make it into the final mixdown.When we discussed promoting VFP we made mention of Craig Boyd’s promos and in particular the phrase: ‘Does more before breakfast than other languages do all day’ As Craig Boyd’s post pointed out this comes from...

VFP: Catching up on my Fox Show backlog

I’m still about 4 or 5 episodes behind on my Fox Show listening… So I started with the most recent show with John Petersen’s views on legal issues. This is an important issue and one all developers need to be grappling with. In my experience the smaller shops tend to put legal issues in the ‘that’s for the big software companies’ basket, but this is...

VFP: Win32 Offline ApiViewer

For those of you using Win32 functions in your VFP apps this will be of major interest. I won’t go into all the great features, just go to the site, download it and buy it now.Highly recommended. at $20 it is a steal. (Note: I have told Anitoliy that I think the $20 price is rediculously low and that he should increase it to $50. So you may want to get in quickly in case he...

VFP: The Visual FoxPro Tipping Point

The Visual FoxPro Tipping Point There is a VFP Surge on at present. 2005 was a good year for Visual FoxPro and 2006 could turn out to be the VFP Tipping Point. Those familiar with Malcolm Gladwell’s famous book may see some similarities to the VFP environment at present. But first a quick recap of relevant important events in 2005.  The start was the unveiling of...

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