Scott and I have started an Australian based Visual FoxPro podcast.In our first episode we interview Andrew Coates. You can check it out here: www.ozfoxrocks.comThe content listing is here: : this is being hosted free of charge by the company we work for (thanks Talman), so for now we are on a server with a less than ideal internet pipe – unfortunately the download will be a little slow...
I had a rather frustrating time at the Sydney VFP UG this week. I had foolishly put myself down to give an overview of SQL Server 2005 based on the Beta 2 version (July CTP I think).It has been sitting on my notebook for a few months now and all seems OK. In fact I have been doing most of my coding for an existing SQL 2000 project using the Management Studio – hey I just like the abililty...
Very interesting post from Calvin on string performance here and his follow up here.I think this is an important read for all FoxPro programmers for the simple reason that we (arrogantly sometimes I think) can fall into the ‘VFP is great at string manipulation and I don’t have to worry about optimising my code’ trap.Markus and Rod’s post comparing VFP to C# will quickly...
My wife got the the new Gorillaz CD for her birthday. You know, the one that has a song featured in the iPod ad. Well here’s the thing, it has copy protection technology on the CD that means you can’t rip it onto your iPod. Michele thinks it is ironic. I think it sucks. But here’s the really dumb thing, the CD copy protection technology only works on CD players. Yep, swapped out...
Call me reckless but I loaded this straight onto my notebook.
Everything’s working great so far…
Just confirming that the Sydney VFP User Group is on next Wednesday 5 October (after being postponed for a week).
Details on the UG site
www.svfpug.com.au
The next few months are going to be very interesting in the Team System extensibility space…
(noted from Rob Caron’s blog)
Tragic news. The VFP community has lost a great.
Tristan writes about Serentity and his Firefly experience. I totally agree. We are long time fans of Josh Whedon (yes, we own all the Buffys, and Michele has a poster of Angel hanging behind the office door…) and we are now totally hooked on Firefly. I’ve been totally hooked on Tristan’s blog for ages – one of my faves is here.
Back from holidays and feeling great. Spent close to two weeks with my sister-in-law’s family (my wife’s sister and her husband and their 17 month year daughter who is soooo cute). I get on really well with my brother-in-law so it was a great time. They are visiting from Zurich (you may remeber we stayed with them for 6 weeks at the start of the year). And, by some divine...