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December 2005 - Posts

Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:24 PM

Handling buffered data in Visual FoxPro

A couple of months ago I wrote about the basics of buffering, but I deliberately left out any discussion of the two most vital functions when working with buffering - namely TableUpdate() and TableRevert(). These are the basic means by which you, the
posted by andykr | 1 Comments
Wednesday, December 21, 2005 1:35 PM

At Last! Common Sense Prevails

I don't normally comment on non-technical issues in this Blog, but this week I feel impelled to do so to mark the ruling against the forced teaching of “Intelligent Design“ to school children on the pretext that it is not a religious view,
posted by andykr | 19 Comments
Thursday, December 15, 2005 12:23 AM

Endangered Species? Only of becoming more popular it seems...

This website was brought to my attention by Dale Dedory from the Philippines. Take a look at how the programming languages of choice have changed over the past year - and especially notice number 20 (up from 51 last year) - you guessed! It's VFP... http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
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Sunday, December 04, 2005 7:00 AM

Handling NULL Values in VFP

I was reminded the other day of some of the issues that can arise in code when an unexpected null value is encountered. This led me back to re-visit my understanding of NULL value handling in VFP and that is what this blog is about. Let us begin by considering
posted by andykr | 4 Comments
Sunday, December 04, 2005 5:02 AM

FoxPro NOT in danger...

Here's an interesting article, from Mary Joe Foley. The title says it all I think... FoxPro Not an Endangered Species http://www.redmondmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=1166 Mary makes some interesting points, and raises a couple
posted by andykr | 3 Comments