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FoxPro workBLOGS and MORE… . . .

King Kong Post Production Diary – 14 Weeks To Go (via CGSociety.org)

Can’t wait for the sequel: KING KONG versus Apple’s Ipod Nano.

Hefty hardware requirements for Windows Vista.

I’ll react later. One rant a day is more than enough for me.

Just a quick quasi-rant.

Oh creative-and-innovative minds and fingers-pounding-the-keyboard influencing the human world… do place e.BackwardCompatibility beside e.Speed every time you re-design, recreate and develop things.

Always.

Ignoring it means two things (two for now… I’ll mention the others later). One you’re insulting the previous creators/developers/inventors and designers.

Not only that, you’re also insulting the user.

Second, which can be connected or not to the first one, is… you’ve released a product that is not well planned, well organized and is not able anticipate future changes.

In this field of binaries, bits and data, one should design/create applications that are designed to last for decades, if not years. Something that should stand the test of time.

(And time is one cruel alpha/beta/omega/post-release tester.)

Now… I know there are always situations that are exceptions… and humans tend to move if not cross the line. This is where efficient and cumbersome conversion tools must come in.

Now the proponents of profit are shouting out the opposite of what I’m saying here.

Money-infested-and-blinded humans, I will talk to you later… that I will.

Calvin Hsia: Binding to Internet Explorer Instances.

Microsoft Visual FoxPro September 2005 – Letter from the Editor… is online.

What a way to start a week… receiving a link to this article.

Pixelwarp: DAZ Galleries – September 2005.

And the PIXELWARP feature comes to this side of cyberspace.

Here… give your neurons some task to do. Free them from porn infestation.

This, I like… so I’m posting the lines again on a separate blog entry:

In Orcas, many of the new and innovative features actually borrow from Microsoft’s FoxPro database, sources said.

And the team that has been working on the VB data integration capabilities has been referred to as the “Zorro” team inside Microsoft�in homage to the FoxPro ties, sources said. Zorro is Spanish for fox.

Source: Fox in Microsoft’s Tool-Suite Coop.

Did I even mention that things will be ‘normal’ this week..?

But that’s just us.

Here are some Fox-related stuff: Fox in Microsoft’s Tool-Suite Coop.

This however is quite sad. (‘Another leaves the den’ entry (I can’t seem to connect to DevBlog’s archived entry right now))

MarcSilvestriArt.com

‘This day deserves a blog.’

That’s what I told qs as we were heading home after two consecutive client visits in five hours.

I tried to ‘cram’ visits to five different clients in the past two weeks prior to this one hoping that I could somehow rest and concentrate on the actual coding in front of a desk or something this week.

Turns out, we’ve done two visits today (make that yesterday since it is 1:35AM and this would probably be posted around 2 or 3 in the afternoon when I’ll get the chance to be online) and we’re still up to three more visits before this week ends.

But going back to this day (or yesterday) update-wise, with the help of this newly acquired pqi usb thumbdrive, things went smoothly. (Unlike before, where we have to deal with snobbish cd-rom drives pretending to be defective every time we’re around, misconfigured network shares, countless bugbear viruses, broken floppy drives and illogical office politics (don’t even let us go deep into the bloody details.))

Smooth… the database/system updates… yes. But there are some ‘other matters’ that made one of the visits disappointing.

For the past seven years of my freelance life (four of which spent alongside my qs), we have tackled some disappointing situations. But this is the third time in a row in a span of two weeks that this matter manifested itself.

Out of respect for the client, I would refrain from diving into the details.

I would however teleport my mind from this not-so-good thing and concentrate on two important matters in particular.

The first is one of those blah-blah-blah-things about life which you know already and it would make things redundant if I’ll state it once again.

The other is… in this world of database/system/software development… freelance adventures… clients… and all… there is also one thing which is as important as an efficient/stable/fortified/hacked-to-the-core software/database systems (the product).

And that is… relationships.

Your relationship, the trust and reputation you have with your client is as important (if not more important) than the software product itself.

Take good care of it.

Your relationship with your partner, employee/employer, borg-slave programmer/coder matters as well.

But that, dear children of the force, is another story for now.

The ‘foxpro-warp’ of the day: SPS: Visual FoxPro Grid – A Tip and a Calendar Class.

‘Foxpro-warps’ are pixelcatalyst.Lair‘s equivalents of ‘pixelwarps’… comic-warps… photowarps. Whatever.

Will GADGETS trump WIDGETS..?

After this week… hopefully… hopefully… I could transfer some buffered thoughts in my brain into a digital format stored in this blog.

A couple of hardware upgrades (and you think upgrades would make you more productive, eh..?) and a string of client visits are consuming a lot of my time for the past few weeks.

10 Dumb Moments in Sci-Fi Cinema.

Visual FoxPro DevCon 2005 Interview with Alan Griver and Ken Levy.

Hitting The High Notes.