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Tom’s VFP Blog site translated from German to English.

Here’s the original url:   http://tomsvfpblog.blogspot.com/.

social.msdn.microsoft.com Visual FoxPro General Forum

One of the good things about having a son.  You have a good excuse to buy and play with these things.

Here’s more info regarding GUINEU from the ProFox email archives.

Now I wonder what ever happened to eTecnologia.net project.  That was such a promising product as well.

There has been a couple of Guineu updates here and here for the past week. ( via Planet Fox )

Great to see this project moving.  Been following this since I saw the first post years ago.  Prior to this week’s update the previous post from that site was last January 2010.

More info regaring Guineu on Christof Wollenhaupt’s FoxPert site:

Guineu The FoxPro runtime

Guineu is an alternative runtime library for Microsoft Visual FoxPro® 9.0 that runs on any Microsoft .NET compatible platform. Guineu has to offer something for you, if you

… are a Visual FoxPro® developer

Save your investment in FoxPro code
Make the most of your skills in the future
Extend to new platforms like Microsoft Windows Mobile
Turn your applications into web applications

… migrate to .NET

Call FoxPro code from any .NET language without COM InterOp
Use your existing business logic in .NET web services

Link:   guineu.foxpert.com

Sources of Insight

Andy Kramek / Marcia Akins :  The Kit Box: You ‘Auto’ Complete Your Editboxes ( FoxTalk MSDN Archive )

Now tell me… isn’t he the most badarse LEGO minifig you have ever seen..?

Reviewing some articles at FoxRockX and FoxTalk archives.

Site is in German but PDFs do have an English version.

One of these days I’ll organized a better and more structured VFP related links in a single page.  Right now they’re scattered in the archives.

FoxTabs.  Just in case you don’t have this nifty tool yet.

Bought this discounted September 2011 issue of Heavy Metal magazine.

I recognized the artist before I saw the Imaginary Friends Studios label in the cover.

I stumbled upon ArtGerm’s art back in the deviantart.com days ( Those days when I visit the site regularly ).

That was even before IFS involvement in the Lamb animated movie.

I’ve been a fan of his character Pepper ( see Pepper Project ( and this )) which I think is the one in the cover.

The table of contents of this issue points out to several deviantart.com artist gallery links.  ( Including kunkka another favorite of mine. )

I think Chester Ocampo, an artist we interviewed before in TheLair, still works with IFS.  ( Though I don’t see his name involved in the Heavy Metal issue ( I was hoping he was ( especially after seeing his latest awesome witchblade artwork. )))

Nice to see their artworks in this issue. I like to see more ‘digitally created/enhanced’ artworks inside Heavy Metal.

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I’ve been playing around with several iPhone graphics/photo apps.  Even mentioned some of them before.

But I still can’t arrive at a combination that really satisfies me.

Resizing before uploading doesn’t help as it destroys the quality of the image.  ( See previous posts. )

So I’m sticking with this combination-manip for now.  ( More later. )

No resizing… but if you’re viewing the image not on my website that automatically resizes the width to 550, it looks offensively large at 1280.

Beehee.

So You Want To Build a Software Product

My pet tiger has a new hero… Mr. David Thorne.

It’s that time of the year again… when traffic is so bad.

I have to cancel 1 of my 3 meetings today and changed venues on the other one.  The one I met also cancelled one meeting of his own.

The picture above is not even a main street.  It’s the street around a mall.

FoxyPreviewer update v2.88 ( via VFP Imaging )

– No more need to distribute ReportPreview.App and ReportOutput.App
– Easy debugging, because all the needed files are in the same module (with debuginfo)
– No more need to deal with nonupdated systems. Lots of users reported issues, but the source was the report*.App wrong (old) files
– Ensure the FoxyPreviewer initialization will be done using the correct procedures
– A significant increase of speed running the reports and previews

Link:  VFP Imaging:  FoxyPreviewer Major Update

Found this LEGO Spybotics Secret Agent Training Manual ( 80% discount at BookSale ) while I was walking home from a ‘serious’ client/partner meeting yesterday.

This would be a nice read one of these days.

The blue envelop… I received from a client.  It contains a printed photo of my favorite food from their place and a softdrinks picture… : )

I prefer giving short descriptions on the pictures I post in here.   But I’m taking these pics and manipulating them ( resizing / recoloring / adding borders  ( Yes in that order )) on an iPhone, so oftentimes I’m too lazy to type these things in a limited/small phone screen keyboard.

I’m too lazy to edit some posts afterwards too.

But I’m making an exception on this one.

Today I found out…

Nice site.  Especially if you’re an info geek.

Speaking of info geeks…

That’s a nice site if you’re a picture junkie.

Like me.