Esparta Palma

My new Jacket

espalm — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:03:00 GMT

Yesterday I bought a new jacket, who cares? To me....

It seems good, isn't it?, look it closer!.

Yeahhh!, nothing runs like a Fox!! :-), and The Fox Is Back!

The RetroFox.com

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Espartaco Palma
SysOp www.PortalFox.com
México, D.F

Latin-Power at SouthWest!

espalm — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 05:48:00 GMT

The language spanish was present at SouthWest Fox Conferences!

Alejandro Sosa, Ken Levy, Esparta Palma, Ana María Bisbé, Kenneth Tamayo.

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Espartaco Palma
SysOp www.PortalFox.com
México, D.F

LINQ , Woow

espalm — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 05:25:00 GMT

In the past SouthWest Fox Conference I was able to see to Calvin Hsia showing us the LINQ Project preview....

Can you imagine how handy will be?

Versión en español: http://weblogs.golemproject.com/esparta/posts/5715.aspx

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Espartaco Palma
SysOp www.PortalFox.com
México, D.F

VFPTeam has release Public Beta of Service Pack 1 for VFP 9

espalm — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 04:18:00 GMT

The Visual FoxPro Team has release the Public Beta of Service Pack 1 for Visual FoxPro 9.0. You can download it rigth now from this URL:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1c06e35d-10a2-4a05-84fc-495b3a73ecf7

So, let test it!

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Espartaco Palma
SysOp www.PortalFox.com
México, D.F.

VFP9 IDE Spanish, IDE de VFP9 en Español

espalm — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 00:03:00 GMT

Great!! In short we (spanish community and PortalFox.com) will begin the translation of the Help. Genial!! En breve (la comunidad en español y PortalFox.com) iniciaremos la traducción de la ayuda del producto.

More/Mas info:

--- IDE en Español de Visual FoxPro 9.0 ---
http://www.portalfox.com/article.php?sid=1880
http://www.portalfox.com/press/
http://www.portalfox.com/press/indexen.htm (english version)
http://weblogs.golemproject.com/proca/posts/4937.aspx

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Espartaco Palma
SysOp www.PortalFox.com
México, D.F.

The MS-KB Helps you to make good questions!!

espalm — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:57:00 GMT

Checking out the Channel 9 RSS, I found this:

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=555372

To me it's really funny how they apply this "problem" to the MSKB format!!, more if you see that this not applies to Visual FoxPro, .NET and the others :-D

In the following days I'll try to translate to spanish and post to my spanish tech-blog.

Version en español en el siguiente:

--- El KB de MS te ayuda a hacer buenas perguntas!! ---
http://weblogs.golemproject.com/esparta/posts/4754.aspx

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Espartaco Palma
SysOp www.PortalFox.com
México D.F.

Press CTR+ALT+SUPR?

espalm — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:08:00 GMT

This is an automatic ticketing maching ...

Ok, Press CTRL+ALT+SPR... But, How??, this machine as any other automatic machine doesn't have a public keyboard!!

It was taken at Puebla, Mexico, in a bus station.

Microsoft VFP EULA.

espalm — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:41:00 GMT

Some people are desagree with the way (or no-way) to know what or how is the licence of the product to buy, it's typical that you only know what's the licence when you already bought the product, so, it's a little bit more difficult (in Latinamerica is wrost) to return it if you are not agree.

That's why Microsft is offering the EULA as a freely download, so you can read it before buy it (and if you want it, send to your lawyer(s)), now you can download it in the following link:

--- Microsoft Visual FoxPro EULA (Download .ZIP file)---

Versión en español en el siguiente:

--- Microsoft VFP EULA ---
http://weblogs.golemproject.com/esparta/posts/4600.aspx

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Espartaco Palma
SysOp www.PortalFox.com
México D.F.

Microsoft continues promoting VFP in Latin-America

espalm — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:18:00 GMT

Today I've received the MSDN Flash Latinamerican edition, and I look the promotion/publicity to Visual FoxPro:

So, Microsoft Latinamerican continue working to promote the tool I (we?) use to develop our applications, some times we forgot sooo quickly ;-)

Versión en español en el siguiente:

--- Microsoft sigue promoviendo VFP en Latinoamérica ---
http://weblogs.golemproject.com/esparta/posts/4486.aspx

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Espartaco Palma
SysOp www.PortalFox.com
México D.F

Google Transparencies

espalm — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 06:31:00 GMT

In just a word AMAZING:

You can find it here:

--- Google Transparencies ---
http://www.kokogiak.com/gmaps-transparencies.html

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Espartaco Palma
SysOp www.PortalFox.com
México D.F

Del.icio.us Director, AJAX application.

espalm — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:20:00 GMT

Since Abril 11 I've adding my bookmarks into del.icio.us community, at this time I have a little bit more than 420 links, those at differents themes, the most importants are about VFP and .NET issues.

The past week I found (via del.icio.us main page) an application which give us an improve del.icio.us interface, it used AJAX technology. The application is called del.icio.us Director, I will describe in one word: AMAZING:

The new interface is just great!, is a kind of DHTML with steroids!, I have to mention that the differents sections are reloaded without reload the whole page, just the needed.

Version en español en Golemproject:

--- Del.icio.us Director, AJAX en acción ---
http://weblogs.golemproject.com/esparta/posts/4192.aspx

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Espartaco Palma
SysOp www.PortalFox.com
México D.F

Microsoft has bought an anti-virus company

espalm — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:38:00 GMT

Microsoft has complete the process to bought an antivirus company (which I never heard about it), and has published oficially at some of their websites:

--- Microsoft Completes Acquisition of Enterprise Security Provider Sybari Software ---http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jun05/06-21SybariCompletePR.mspx

The Sybari's products are focus to the security in messaging services, it will apply inmediatly to Exchange 2003, this will help to avoid the problems with viruses, worms and spam.

Via Channel 9

VFPCOM Utility for VFP9

espalm — Wed, 25 May 2005 02:04:00 GMT

Microsoft has release the update for VFPCOM utility which complains with VFP9, if you are still using it try this new release:

--- VFPCOM Utility for VFP9 ---

From MSDN Downloads...

Overview

Extend Visual FoxPro interoperability with other COM and ADO components with the VFPCOM Utility. This utility is a COM server that provides additional functionality when you use ADO and access COM events with your Visual FoxPro 9.0 applications. For installation instructions and more details on the issues that have been addressed, consult the VFPCOM Utility readme file (vfpcom.htm)

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Espartaco Palma
SysOp www.PortalFox.com
México D.F.

MSDN RSS Hacked??

espalm — Wed, 18 May 2005 19:50:00 GMT

Checking the MSDN Just Published RSS ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/rss.xml ) , I was shocking about what was I seen!!

Test for RSS 2, By krash, the Office Solution Development. I didn't know about MS do this kind of "test".

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Espartaco Palma
SysOp www.PortalFox.com
México D.F.

HOWTO: Get MDAC Version

espalm — Mon, 09 May 2005 00:23:00 GMT

Following the recomedations found in the MSKB Article: How to check for MDAC Version

? "MDAC Version: " + NVL(GetMDACVersion(),"Not installed")



FUNCTION GetMDACVersion

  LOCAL lcRetValue

  lcRetValue = .NULL.

  #DEFINE HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE  -2147483646

  TRY

    oReg = NEWOBJECT("registry",HOME(1)+"ffc\registry.vcx")

    lcKey = "Software\Microsoft\DataAccess"

    IF oReg.OpenKey(lcKey,HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,.F.) = 0

      lcSubKey = "Version" &&Or "FullInstallVer"

      IF oReg.GetKeyValue(lcSubKey,@lcRetValue) # 0

        lcRetValue = .NULL.

      ENDIF

      oReg.CloseKey()

    ENDIF

  CATCH TO oError

    lcRetValue = .NULL.

  FINALLY

    RELEASE oReg

  ENDTRY

  RETURN lcRetValue

ENDFUNC

This code was a reply in a thread at the microsoft newsgroup of visual foxpro (spanish edition), it was also published at PortalFox.com, Luis María Guayán incorpore another solutions based at API calls (mine also has), the difference with my implementation was in the fact it was based on the use of OOP paradigm and using the Fox Foundation Classes.

--- Detectar si MDAC está instalado y qué versión (spanish) ---
http://www.portalfox.com/article.php?sid=1631

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Espartaco Palma
SysOp www.PortalFox.com
México D.F.