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August 2009 - Posts

Saturday, August 29, 2009 1:54 PM

Properly Formatting Text Strings

One of the perennial issues that we all encounter from time to time is that of properly formatting words that have been entered into a database. I am sure that, just as I have, you will at least once have run into the situation where you have to produce
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Attachment(s): ChangeCase.zip
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:34 AM

So, what's so bad about Public Variables?

Every once in a while the question about whether Public Variables are something that should be used in VFP. Now, there are lots of opinions on this matter and there are several arguments that come up time and time again in defense of using Public Variables.
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Attachment(s): variableclass.zip
Monday, August 10, 2009 11:05 PM

The Great US Health Care Debate

Regular readers of my blog know that I don't comment on political or social issues (in fact I have only done so once in the past 5 years and that was on another subject about which I also feel strongly). However, the current debate over Government-mandated
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Saturday, August 08, 2009 12:59 PM

Using a Memento Pattern to Implement CTRL+Z

The native behavior of Visual FoxPro controls is that as long as a control has focus, pressing CTRL + Z (or the escape key) undoes any change that has been made since it gained focus. However, once the user moves off the control, the ability to undo changes
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Attachment(s): Memento.zip
Sunday, August 02, 2009 2:32 PM

More of my Useful Utilities (at least, I think they are)

Like all developers, whatever their preferred language or environment, I have my own personal set of tools and utilities that I use to make life a little easier for myself. Although not particularly generic, or even clever, I find that these little things
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