One of my favorite blogs is Calvin Hsia's.
That blog is a real encyclopedia, dealing with lots of aproaches, bringing tons of ideas, and showing that almost everything is possible with VFP. Easy to say that that blog is one of my main sources. Calvin's blog is a must read to every VFP developer.
We all know the bad and good news comming from MS on last March 13, and many people have very well commented those facts.
So we know that Calvin is more focused in other projects and the release of Sedna and SP2 for VFP9 at this moment, and this may be one of the reasons for that slow activity in the last months...
... But anyway....
Hey Calvin, Please keep feeding that incredible blog ! You have no idea how it inspires VFP developers !
I've just read an interesting article on www.computerworld.com, Microsoft's 'MVPs' say they're often its sharpest critics, in which a brief story about the first MVPs and Calvin's work for the VFP community.
The text below was extracted from the referred article:
"When Microsoft started the MVP program, its goals were humble. In June 1992, the company had acquired the FoxPro database, a product with which it had little history or technical expertise.
But for nearly a decade, there already had existed a very active online community of FoxPro users who provided advice to one another on a CompuServe forum.
One of those members was Calvin Hsia, an MIT computer science graduate who was running a software company in Honolulu. Hsia recalls spending an average of three to four hours per day reading messages and answering questions about FoxPro on the CompuServe forum.
"In Hawaii, you could go to the beach, but there wasn't that much to do that was intellectually stimulating," Hsia said. "I really enjoyed talking to people and helping solve their problems. The thank-you's I would get were really gratifying."
Out of his own curiosity, Hsia began compiling a spreadsheet that ranked the most prolific posters on the FoxPro forum. (He himself consistently ranked second behind a woman who later became a Microsoft MVP). Hsia would occasionally post his rankings, which others dubbed "Calvin's List," on the forum, with the subtle intent of motivating people to help more.
Hsia also sent the data to people on request, including Microsoft executives who used the list to help select the first crop of MVPs. Not surprisingly, 30 out of the 38 MVPs chosen in the program's first year were FoxPro experts.
Among those was Hsia, who said the award helped open the door for him at Microsoft, where he has worked full time since 1994 and became lead developer for the still-chugging FoxPro software in 2000. And although Hsia stopped maintaining Calvin's List more than a decade ago and is much less active on newsgroups than he used to be, he still writes a blog offering help to FoxPro users."