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I really need a place... at night... where I can code without getting worried about someone tapping me from behind and reminding me that I am singing too loud already.

IT Posters. Time to deface your pron-infested walls. (Downloadable PDFs included (Not all are free though. (Do check the comments part of that post for more.)))

Fox links from the Visual FoxPro community.

Doug Hennig: Services as Products (via Akselsoft)

A number of interesting GDIPlusX (images and charts and all) going on at this VFP IMAGING site.

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Going back to services and products, when we started doing freelance works around 6++ years ago, we made the services part free for one year. Client only has to pay for the customized product.

Even extended it to a couple more years, since most clients were kind enough to give us new projects (or recommend us to their branches) after the first year.

It worked well... until 2007, when a new wave of client adminstrators went in... new staff without proper turnovers and a lot of outside factors as well.

Now we're spending some time ironing out things.

In this part of the world, the fair option that I see for freelancers like us would be to sell the Product as Product and the 'Services as Product' part will tackle the maintenance part.

Of course it also depends on what side of the fence are you in. Our Open Source lovin' friends mostly would go for Services all the way.

Which works for them.

On our part, we still have a lot of re-planning to do since we have been discovering, as of late, that most human users are like Francium, one of the most unstable elements in this world.

Ok... we're not going into the bloody details of that part.

Partly... the entities above are responsible for hatching this.

Rebel Science: Half a Century of Crappy Computing.

Stumbled upon that link while browsing the links of the previous post.

Here's one more: Artifical Intelligence From The Bible.

Random stuff to break the blogging absence...

Smashing Magazine released this set of (Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos.

But you might be more interested with this EGG2Chick development pics.

More random links: Does Time Run Backward in Other Universes? | Nasty Little Truth About Space

(Links via GeekPress.com)

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And of course... it's Lakers and Celtics once again in the NBA Finals!

Though I must admit... I was rooting for the Spurs.

But inspite of that Game 4 no-foul-called in the last 2.1 seconds controversy (which the NBA admitted after a day ( videos here )) and that NBA fixing games conspiracy theories... the lakers did outperform the experienced (/old), classy and professional on and off the court (they even defended the referee non-call before the NBA admitted the mistake), yet also boring on papers, but always efficient defending champion... the San Antonio Spurs.

I guess Obiwan Ginobili was no match for Anakobe Skywalker after all.

Mark pointed this article to me.

Peter Bright: From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X—Part II.

Fox Charts.

HOLY WEEK 2008. Here's a link... The Brick Testament.

YAY! We've made some developments.

Instead of one 'minifig' (that's what you humans call us eh..?) per letter, we're now assigning a set of words per minifig. One minifig can memorize the assigned sequence (we do have good 'memories') and jump from one key to the other faster.

And faster it was.

We hit some problems though.

Like this one with the SHIFT key.

Bob: "Hold the key! This one's a capital letter."
Peter: "Too heavy for me. I can't hold it down that long."
John: "I'll help. I'll help."

The major setback though was when Willard, in charge of the BACKSPACE key, slipped.

Rod: "Double Js some backspace please."
Willard: "MY Backspace!"
Willard: "UGH."
Bob: "Move your arse, Willard. Release the BACKSPACE."
Willard: "My back... my back. He... eelp."

It's the BACKSPACE... so we have to do things all over again.

Willard will be fine. No worries.

HELLO AGAIN.

You have no idea how long it took us to post the previous entry.
But we're getting used to it...
And we're getting a lot faster too.

Yes we're taking over this... this whatever this is.
You see Mr. WildFire moved some of his stuff from his bigger 'puterbox to a smaller movable 'puter and decided to estivate on a cave somewhere to work on 'TheFramework'.

He left this black 'puterbox open to grab some stuff stuff I think. We're still figuring out those things.

We do hope it's pron-related.

To give you how we operate things... here are some pics.

That's me directing the letters for the writing and jumping process.

The Transfer Team.

It took an hour for this team to figure things out. But one blacktron was good with hieroglyphics.

If we can find a mirror we'll show you how we're taking these shots. There's only one camera in here.

We'll find a way to elevate this cam too, to get better angles. For now we can only provide near to the floor shots.

Later.

Oh by the way... my name's Bob.

Hello world.
TEST.

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Now if only we can have an ENGLISH version of that chm file...

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Foxpro.catalyst will turn four tomorrow. That is of course if I could finish this post before midnight.

After that 'accidental' redesign of the OUTPOST FORUM, I planned to work on some templates for this site.

I was into it when for some weird reason I accepted two rushed five day projects, so I'll be postponing the re-design for awhile.

Four years ago, my first post was a test scribble of course followed by a post linking to FoxProHistory.org.

Thanks for reading... : )

wOOdy's Visual FoxPro code snippets at MSDN CODE GALLERY. (via Rick Schummer)

Also... let me relink to this » SEDNA at CodePlex.VFPX.