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March 2006 - Posts

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 4:35 PM

Greedy Software Manufacturer Strikes Again!

Or am I just being unreasonable? We are doing some work for clients who are going to implement a new accounting system for their small/medium size business. Naturally, since we were writing some custom software for them that would have to integrate with
posted by andykr | 12 Comments
Thursday, March 23, 2006 7:22 PM

Autumn Visual FoxPro Conferences

 Well, the Autumn FoxPro conferences are starting to take shape. In the past few days we have had the initial Speaker announcements for Fox Forward (Atlanta, September ) and SW Fox (Phoenix, October ). So far Advisor have not formally announced the
posted by andykr | 4 Comments
Monday, March 20, 2006 7:47 PM

Writing Better Code (3)

In the third article of this little series I am going to talk about Procedures and Functions. Visual FoxPro, like its ancestors FoxPro and FoxBase supports two different ways of declaring, and calling, code. Creating a Procedure A procedure is simply
posted by andykr | 4 Comments
Monday, March 13, 2006 4:43 PM

Writing Better Code (Part 2)

As I noted in the first article in this little series, one of the really great things about Visual FoxPro is that there are usually several different ways of doing the same thing. Unfortunately, this is also one of the worst things about it because, at
posted by andykr | 3 Comments
Tuesday, March 07, 2006 3:23 PM

Writing better code (Part 1)

As we all know, Visual FoxPro provides an extremely rich and varied development environment but sometimes too much of a good thing leads us into bad habits.  When writing code there are usually several ways of achieving the same result, but all too
posted by andykr | 8 Comments