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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:21 AM

FoxRockX – Time to Put up, or Shut up

Over the years much has been made about the FoxPro Community and how important it is to the life and survival of the product. However, as I have said many times (most recently in my "So, no more Visual FoxPro. Now what?" blog entry from May of 2007),
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Sunday, March 02, 2008 7:23 PM

More on the Advantage Database Server

If you are interested in learning more about the advantage database server that I mentioned on this blog a couple of months ago, then you should visit J D Mullin's blog here: http://jdmullin.blogspot.com/2008/02/getting-started-with-visual-foxpro-and.html
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Saturday, January 05, 2008 11:58 AM

Advantage Database Server V9.0 released as Beta

Sybase Anywhere have been working on a Visual FoxPro compatible version of the Advantage Database Server for some time and, just before Christmas, the long-awaited Version 9.0 was released in Beta. You can download the Beta version (time limited until
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Monday, October 29, 2007 10:34 AM

Frankfurt Developer Conference is just 1 Week Away

By now I am sure you will have seen the rave reviews for SW Fox held last week in Mesa, Arizona. Rick, Doug and Tamar put together a fabulous conference which was really positive and upbeat. I have not been to such a great VFP conference in the US
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Sunday, June 24, 2007 12:30 PM

SW Fox, An Endangered Species I fear!

Marcia and I have just returned from Prague, where we were lucky enough to be among the speakers for the third time. This was, and is, a great conference and this year had over 300 attendees. However, the first time we went there (in 2002) they had
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Saturday, May 19, 2007 10:06 PM

So, no more Visual FoxPro. Now what?

It has been over a month since Microsoft formally announced that there would be no new version of Visual FoxPro and that support for the current version would be retired in 2015. The reaction from large parts of the community was, of course, entirely
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Monday, February 19, 2007 1:36 PM

Are on-line technical forums breeding lazy developers?

As most of my readers will know, I spend a considerable amount of time trying to help other developers with technical issues in various on-line forums. I don’t do this because I am seeking some sort of kudos, or recognition, but because when I was starting
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:38 PM

USE IT OR LOSE IT

Phew! It’s been a long hot summer, but we are now getting towards the end of it and it is time to start thinking about the Fall Conference Season. I just received an E-Mail from Bob Kocher, founder and organizer of SW Fox (which has simply got to be the
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Thursday, May 11, 2006 12:06 PM

Morituri te salutant (Those who are about to die, salute you)

Traditionally the ancient Roman Gladiator's salute to their Emperor, the reality is, apparently, that it was not used by gladiators but only uttered once (by slaves who were being forced to take part in a mock battle for Claudius). Interesting though
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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
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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
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 1:51 PM

Am I missing something?

This morning, as usual, I came into my office, opened up my E-Mail, waited while 375 unwanted ‘spam’ E-Mails were downloaded into “discarded” box by my spam filter. That left me with about a dozen new E-Mails, but on inspection 11 of these were also spam.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:14 PM

Fox Forward - A worthy, but misguided initiative

I recently received an invitation to submit sessions for the new Fox Forward conference being organized by Kevin Cully and co in Atlanta for September of this year. While I applaud their initiative in trying to start up a new, and (supposedly) different
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:20 PM

I have been remiss, apologies

It was brought to my notice that I have been very quiet on the Blog front lately, and for that my apologies. I have been very busy with work since the end of November and also with hardware problems that have necessitated the complete re-build of both
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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,
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