Craig Bailey

I’ve added new entries to the Sydney VFP User Group and OzFox blogs latelywww.ozfox.blogspot.comwww.svfpug.blogspot.com

I’ve been playing with Help Builder again (I used an earlier version for a while) and have to say this really is one of the best products I’ve used in a long time. And here I’m talking about the effort to productivity ratio. This is a product you can install and use straight away to create really good help files. (To be fair I haven’t tried any others to compare it with...

OK, so I really like some of the ideas behind A9 (the history, diary, references are great) but speed is why it is not going to be a success.It’s too slow. And by slow I mean it takes more than a second to display resources.Google is king due to speed (search result accuracy is not really a factor).A9 needs to pick up speed by a factor of 5 atleast if it is going to be competitive.Its only...

I was sick yesterday for the first time in about 2.5 years. Something dodgy I ate because I was up all night doing what you do when you are violently ill, but was pretty good by the next morning. Anyway without grossing you out too much there is always a good side to things. In the case of being sick: it is hard to read, write, work on your PC etc so all you can do is think (and play a little...

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Why don’t I like web based email? Speed, or rather lack of it. Why do I like GMail? Speed. Forget the features, space, etc, the reason I will use GMail is because it is super fast. We all know that is why google succeeded, and that is why GMail (in my opinion) will blow away Hotmail in the next few years. So here’s some things I’d like to see: 1. Corporate GMail accounts...

Here’s a handy bit of code for returning a list of available SQL Servers. I grabbed it out of the VFP9 Data Sources task pane code. It always works if I’m on a network, but I’ve had mixed results if working standalone. #define SQL_HANDLE_ENV 1 #define SQL_HANDLE_DBC 2 #define SQL_ATTR_ODBC_VERSION 200 #define SQL_OV_ODBC3 3 #define SQL_SUCCESS 0 #define SQL_NEED_DATA 99 #define...

I’m feeling sorry for this guy (Stephen) who sent an email to Microsoft with some criticism and copped a bagging in the blog comments. [Note to self: always specify ‘For your eyes only’ on any email I send from now on, or I could end up on a public blog] But it raises the question of supporting customers. We are a software house and get our fair share of customer...

It is now over a month since I have played my drums (courtesy of our holidaying). I’m getting itchy fingers and feet. I’ve now started doing that annoying tapping on everything that drummers do when they haven’t played for a while. Can’t wait to get back in and play through my old Racer X albums. The thing about drumming is that you can always get your hand speed back up...

Glad to be back in Zurich for the great coffee.
I am of the belief it is not physically possible to buy a bad coffee anywhere in Zurich.
The Francis Francis has had a workout this morning after our disappointing coffee experiences in Paris – it is very hit and miss there, mostly miss.