Following on the heels of Bob Keeney’s blog post about making Xojo Should Scream Business, I have some thoughts on an approach that might help make that happen. So strap in and tuck in for my $0.02 worth of advice if it’s even worth that much. My history is largely… Read more »
I had a great time at the FoxCon in Toledo. FoxCon is a long running invitation-only conference that historically came from the Visual Foxpro programming world. The conference has, pleasantly, transformed itself more into a technical business conference. Yes, there were sessions on programming and databases, but there were great… Read more »
Tiobe must have updated their algorithm somehow. Visual Foxpro launches itself back up to the 29th most popular language. I’m not sure I can explain it. And yet, there it is in the January 2015 list. Previously, I had posted that Visual Foxpro was #50 back in November of 2014.
The last release of version 9.0 of my beloved Visual Foxpro was way back in in 2004 and last updated in 2007. Right around the time that they announced the last version, Visual Foxpro peaked on the Tiobe Index at #13 in April of 2006. After that time, Visual Foxpro… Read more »
I received a call from a VFP programmer yesterday. Someone that I had never met or talked with before, but they found my blog on my Converter from Visual Foxpro to Real Studio (now known as Xojo). We spoke on the phone for about 40 minutes. He had been examining… Read more »
This post is a summary of a presentation I made before the Atlanta Foxpro Users Group on Tuesday, January 22nd 2013. You can download the code samples here: http://afug.com/meetingtopics/2013/AFUG_Passwords.zip Over the years and years of my career, I think I’ve made every mistake possible, at some point. We’re going to… Read more »
I was working with some web developers upgrading a VFP data driven website. There were many HTML tags and references in memo fields that needed to be removed when moving to the new site design. I didn’t want to remove ALL of the HTML tags, but just some. I modified… Read more »
Hello Visual Foxpro Programmers, Here’s an update to the ‘Visual Foxpro to Real Studio Converter’. I’ve just released version 0.2Beta. There are numerous updates including: The Real Studio project now properly identifies the forms as belonging to the project. More controls are converted such as the Option Groups and Image… Read more »
I love Visual Foxpro. Let me throw that out there right now and right up front. Unfortunately, Microsoft isn’t going to continue to develop Visual Foxpro and official support is scheduled to end in 2015. Sure, there will be VFP applications that continue to run for years to come. But,… Read more »
Rick Schummer reached out to me and asked me if I would speak to the Detroit Area Foxpro Users Group. I was delighted to accept that offer. I didn’t want to make the announcement before Rick did so … mum was the word. The announcement went out so I can… Read more »
