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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.

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FoxCharts

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Fox Charts.

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EventHandler / Backups / VFPSP2

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

» Calvin Hsia: How does EventHandler work? IConnectionPoint!
» Craig Boyd: VFP Database Backup Made Simple
» Craig Boyd: Properly Registering Sedna's DDEX Provider
» Rick Schummer: VFP 9 RTM/SP1/SP2 - One Machine

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VFP Server

Monday, February 25th, 2008

qs while doing her VFP researches pointed me to this site » VFPSERVER.com.

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

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VFPStudio Code Editor ScreenCast

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

With approximately 100 days in the VFP Studio countdown... Craig Boyd enlightens us with this VFP Studio Code Editor ScreenCast.

Also from SweetPotatoSoftware:
» VFP Application Updating Made Simple
» VFP Uploading/Downloading Made Simple

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GDIx / RL / FormEvent Sequences

Monday, February 18th, 2008

FoxPro.warps » VFP: GDIx and ReportListeners / Form Event Sequences

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CODE.FoxPro.wOOdy

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

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

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

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SEDNA

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 'SEDNA' Add-Ons released.

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Work.2008.initialize()

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

You know vacation is really over when a client call wakes you up at around 7:30AM after just having slept at 5:30AM finishing three rushed modules for another client.

(I still was able to squeeze in some time to watch that classic Muhammad Ali versus George Foreman / Rumble in the Jungle match in between codin'.)

This is one thing I like about Visual FoxPro.

You can solve and debug internal programming stuff online through client chats or calls.

You can even do those things half asleep and partly drooling.

I've tried some other PLs before... it makes you want to plug your hand inside the phone and warp it to the other end to touch the client's keyboard/PC.

That... or you have to create a patch and/or visit the site as well in between cursing.

But then again I've been with VFP for quite some time and I haven't tried using other PLs for actual client works.

(I've heard new languages allow you to create complex programs by just thinking of the program and structural flow while placing the palm of your hand on page 33 of their manuals. (If you can figure a way to place your right foot on page 40 it would even auto-generate a user guide complete with screenshots and all (Yeah that good.)))

Read and tested some new ones... yes... but haven't had the 'right' reasons yet to actually use them in our freelance client works.

I'm with Craig Bailey's assessment that 2007 was one of the busiest years for some of us.

I do hope I could do some graphics-related stuff this 2008.

I have spent some time during that Christmas vacation downloading 'morally gray graphics-related resources' and inspirational GFX-materials from various 'morally gray' sites.

Then there's also that GDIPlusX release from CodePlex.VFPX (via Andrew MacNeill).

Also... I am itching to get my hands on SilverLight.

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FoxSHOW.047

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The FoxShow number 47.

The number 47 is a favorite of mine. Probably because of ALIAS. (with Rambaldi)

Apparently I'm not the only one interested with this number. (More related links at wikipedia)

Still... nothing compares to the Golden Number of course.

Wicked.

Here's one more VFP-link before we get sidetracked with numbers some more.

Cesar Chalom: How to create text as image file with GDIPlusx.

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TY2 Render 8723

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Another modified Terai Yuki 2 render.

Content Paradise's TY2 / modified TY2 Straight Jeans (Billy-T) / E-Frontier Poser 6 (using P4 Render Engine)

And of course the logo in her shirt is a VFPX project developer logo.

VFPX at CodePlex. Help spread the word.

VFPX.

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GeSHI.TEST

Friday, November 16th, 2007

OK... the rain stopped.

Now let's do some GeSHi TESTING.

procedure UTILS_GETDatabaseIndexes()
 
    set procedure to UTILITIES
 
    select &cFilerDatabase
    nTagCount = tagcount()
    if nTagCount > 0
        dimension aDesc(nTagCount)
        for nEXB = 1 to nTagCount
            cSRK = 'cIndex' + NUMTOSTR(nEXB, 2)
            aDesc(nEXB) = &cSRK
        endfor
 
        dimension aIndex(nTagCount)
        for nCount = 1 to tagcount()
           if !empty(tag(nCount))
               cIndexDesc = tag(nCount) + ' (' + ;
               aDesc(nCount) + ')'
               store cIndexDesc to aIndex(nCount)
           else
               exit
           endif
        endfor                
 
        .cmbIndex.rowsourcetype = 5
        .cmbIndex.rowsource = 'aIndex'
        .cmbIndex.value = aIndex(nIndexSortIDNO)
    endif
 
EndProc