Craig Bailey

Congratulations to Reg and Pam (my parents-in-law) on their 39th Wedding anniversary today.Next year’s anniversary is gonna be big. Start the celebration plans now I say…

Scott and I are very thankful for all the support and feedback we’ve had about FoxTabs so far. A number of bugs and some great suggestions have been highlighted.To this end we thought it worth mentioning that we plan to release the Beta in approx 2 weeks time. If you’ve avoided FoxTabs so far (and that is probably wise since it is only an Alpha) then please watch this space for more...

I thought I’d pass on this anecdote from Magic Dave (one of our techies).We host a fair few websites for clients and sometimes clients transfer sites from other hosts to us. Normally this goes pretty smoothly unless the client’s IT manager who set up all the DNS settings has left the company. Last week we had this problem – the previous IT manager for our client had bought the...

The Sydney VFP User Group is on again this Wednesday.This month we have David Bower and Paul Tikotin presenting.Further details here: www.svfpug.com.auWe are back at our usual venue at Microsoft this month. See you at 6:30pm.

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