Gates and M$’ future direction in programming?
My friend, Russell Campbell, sent me this link this morning. Gates talks up declarative modeling language effort F(@*$($(*&*#(*$$*#()@) I’m so happy I’m getting off the M$ B$. Here’s my favorite quote that I think says it all: “It’s something that will change software development…” Of course this is a gem too: “… a lot of [...]
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Foxpro Users Groups – My experience
Cathy Poutney blogged the other day about Foxpro User Groups. Evidently they’re having some trouble keeping things going. We’re lucky to have a very active Foxpro Users Group here in Atlanta. http://afug.com I think we continue to be successful because of our group effort. Russell Campbell is a great president, partly because he never gives [...]
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Visual Foxpro Sedna released
The long awaited, and long overdue Sedna has been released for Visual Foxpro. Sedna is a tool kit with some improvements to VFP, however most of the improvements deal with increasing the ease of VFP to talk to .NET and to ease .NET to talk to VFP. They’ve always been able to talk together, now [...]
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Making REALbasic impersonate VFP
When transitioning from one language to another, there’s always an awkward time where you’re thinking like the old language, and struggling with the new. In the past it has been of help to create functions in the new language to help the transition process. Eventually the “transition” function set is abandoned for the pure implementation [...]
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REALbasic presentation tonight at Atlanta Foxpro Users Group
I’m presenting my FoxForward sessions (condensed) at the AFUG meeting tonight. This is a brand new location for us at KC Pit BBQ but it sounds great: food, drink, private room for the presentation, wireless Internet. If they serve Mt. Dew, I’m set! I’m nervous about the presentation. I learned yesterday that I’m presenting so [...]
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10 Days Til SW Fox
I wish I could be there. It’s looking like a great (and popular) conference. There’s still time to register. Expand your knowledge of Foxpro and other technologies. Trust me. It’ll be worth it. http://swfox.net
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FoxForward “Best Of” Awards Announced!
Please join me in congratulating our FoxForward 2007 “Best Of” winners. Dave Bernard won for “Best Presenter” and Alan Stevens won for “Best Use Of Technology” for his “Red, Green, Refactor: Test-Driven Development with FoxUnit” presentation. If you see them out and about, ask them for an autographed picture of them with their award! Congratulations [...]
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SW Fox: Less than one month to go!
I’m still finishing up some FoxForward business, but I wanted to remind anyone reading the blog, and still sitting on the fence, that time is running out to sign up for SWFox! Get signed up today! It’s shaping up to be a great conference. Support the community, and support your own career. You won’t be [...]
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FoxForward 2007 – Day 2
Yesterday, Dave Crosier bet me that I wouldn’t keep my tie on all day long. I went down to the lounge at midnight without it on and Dave, Ed, and Bo were there. By the time that Dave noticed, it was 12:15am on Saturday morning, so HA!!! The wake up call came at 6am this [...]
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FoxForward Pictures Posted!
FoxForward pictures posted! Click here to see a glimpse of the goings-on at the FoxForward conference! Dave Crosier also published his photos on his web site here. The evaluations are in and it looks like everyone had a good time at the conference. If you weren’t able to make it to FoxForward, check out SW [...]
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