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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…

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

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

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

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

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 ‘SEDNA’ Add-Ons released.

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.

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.

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.

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

Related links:
» GeSHi / Generic Syntax Highlighter
» Wongoo Lee’s WordPress CodeHighlighter Plug-in

XSource for VFP 9 SP2.

Accidentally found that news when I clicked the FoxPro link from GeSHi. (Generic Syntax Highlighter)

I saw this special offer from DBI Technologies while browsing Eric den Doop’s blog.

I have one company in mind that I am hoping would offer something like this.

Paul Mrozowski: Optimizing VFP Code.

Stephen J. Bodnar blogs about Southwest Fox. There are more than one entries so I’m linking you directly to Steve’s site.

Later… I’m still playing with MY LEGOs… : ]

VFP9 SP2 update which fixes the splash screen.

So I guess that October 11 release wasn’t the last .exe after all… : )

I do like that splash screen.

It’s unique… has an attitude… and collectible.

Inspiring also, for some reasons I can’t point out.

A list of updates from news2news.com/vfp site. A good source of win32-related functions for VFP.

Quite a number of updates from that site since the last time I visited it… which was… a year ago.

VFP buffered links continued…

I don’t like the way this wordpress template is handling bullets (ul/li) so we’ll do this in this format.

Craig Bailey: Importing Visual FoxPro Data into SQL Server 2005 Using SQL Integration Services (SSIS).

Tod McKenna: SYS(2017) and Comparing Data / I still have a lot of catching up to do with Tod McKenna‘s articles/blogs and materials.

Andrew MacNeill: FoxShow 00044 with Rainer Becker. There’s also a blog of interest links from that site.

VFP 9.0 SEDNA Components from DBI.

Vassilis Aggelakos: VFP Does MP3 Too!

Paul Tarver: Visual FoxPro and FireBirdSQL

I need to play with some files I have downloaded from this Fox-blog hoppin’. I’ll continue the unbuffering later.

OH… an update from Visual FoxPro’s Development Center.

Here’s a link to Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 Service Pack 2.0.

I’ve been without an rss reader for almost two years.

I stopped using one when the home internet connection was disconnected. That was December of 2005.

Now I’m making up by installing three rss readers… : )

Currently I’m using Stardock’s BlogNavigator and testing Awasu (after being recommended by woody).

I’m also revisiting RSSBandit (one of the the first rss reader I’ve used (… which is now an opensource project)).

(More on RSS Readers later…)

I’m doing catching up and here are some VFP-related links which I have overlooked. Some links/posts are a year old already (yet still useful).

Then again, you can always skip the ones you’ve read already.

• Dave Crozier: VFP Integration with Microsoft Virtual Earth
• Doug Hennig: Developing Microsoft Visual FoxPro Applications for Windows Vista (More VFP-related articles from Advisor here (FoxPro Advisor have been discontinued though. (via Gonzo (via Kevin Ragsdale))
• Hentzenwerke: Thoughts on Visual FoxPro 10 (09/04/2007)

I’ll continue this later.

Sun Tzu: The Art of Projects (Chapter 1 – Planning). From Goran Zidar.

Now if only I could add Goran’s feeds on my rss reader.

Which I can’t.

BLOGNAVIGATOR version 1.2.2 Build 283 from StarDock (Yes… the creators of WindowsBlinds / Object Desktop and other nifty apps) seems to be having problems with some selected feeds.

Calvin Hsia‘s feeds included. It reads but takes quite some time to load.

It works well with other feeds though.

I have tried quite a number of desktop-based rss readers before this. And this one has features that an obsessive compulsive pack rat like me wants.

I guess… when it comes to those sites, I just have to do that old bookmark/visit approach.

Foxpert: Accumulating The Slow Parts