Craig Bailey

Interesting post from Scott Scovell on using AMEMBERS in a FOR EACH..NEXT loop.How many times have you spent hours chasing a little gotcha like this?

UPDATE: Scott’s atom feed is at

A few people have written their thoughts on Mary Jo Foley’s article on VFPhttp://redmondmag.com/columns/article.asp?editorialsid=1166I liked Andrew MacNeill’s discussion, and in particular his closing appeal that we need to make our users excited. Read it all here: we are to have any chance of getting users excited about FoxPro then we atleast need to make our products attractive...

From the looks of it this is a certification that actually carries some weight.  only in pilot the program looks very comprehensive.  Microsoft (and other vendor) certification programs come in for a fair bit of criticism (and rightly so) as to the actual competency they indicate, given that brain dumps are all over the place – ie passing the exams might be nothing more...

The final Sydney VFP User Group meeting for 2005 is on next Wednesday 14 December. See you at 6:30pm at Microsoft for pizza and drinks. A great bunch of talks and cool prizes make this a great year-end get together. Eka, Paul, John and I will be presenting. Our question time will be looking at strategies for moving your app from VFP to SQL as a backend...

Yep, those mail box limits some companies set defy explanationhttp://www.secretgeek.net/mailboxlimits.aspsg’s note in the comments about the 5.25″ backup cracked me up

Here’s one of those really easy SQL tips that I always forget (in fact I’m just posting it here for ease of finding later) In VFP it is easy to compare case ie SELECT fields FROM mytable   WHERE UPPER(field) == field If you want to compare case in a SQL Server database that is case insensitive, just convert to varbinary first eg:SELECT fields FROM...

Originally I was going to post this on April 1 next year, but in the end I decided I couldn’t wait that long… A few of us were chatting around the coffee machine at work the other day discussing what would happen if Google bought Visual FoxPro from Microsoft. It’s an interesting idea and one that would probably please the developers who think Microsoft doesn’t support...

The final Sydney VFP User Group meeting for 2005 has been postponed by two weeks.We will now be meeting on Wednesday 14 December. Still at the usual venue and time.www.svfpug.com.au 

You might be wondering how FoxTabs is coming along. Well, all fine except for one little issue that is a potential showstopper…Scott has posted here with the details.  

An interesting piece on Music CD copy protection. Keep it in mind when you next consider purchasing a CD. the analysis:: We finally have iTunes in Australia now (as of Tuesday 25 Oct 2006)