{"id":279,"date":"2004-08-07T12:32:29","date_gmt":"2004-08-07T04:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=279"},"modified":"2007-11-02T14:06:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T06:06:01","slug":"smag-visit-20040806","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/279","title":{"rendered":"SMAG visit &#8211; 2004.0806"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visited a client in Guagua, Pampanga today. Fixed a database corruption on one unit. Installed some ILS module updates. Meet <a href=\"http:\/\/fr.trendmicro-europe.com\/consumer\/security_info\/ve_detail.php?VName=PE_SPACES.1445\" target=\"_blank\">W<font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">95<\/font>.spaces.<font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">1445<\/font><\/a> (I&#8217;ve been cataloguing those kinds of meetings and it seems each company I visit cultivates their own &#8216;pets&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">cEntity = &#8216;pets&#8217;<br \/>\ncSimilarEntity = substr(cEntity, 1, 2) + ReverseString(substr(cEntity, 3, 2)) <\/font><\/p>\n<p>Introduced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\" target=\"_blank\">OpenOffice.org<\/a> since they could afford to buy only one licensed copy of Microsoft Office <font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">2003<\/font> this school year. Introduced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.majorgeeks.com\" target=\"_blank\">MajorGeeks.com<\/a> and explained OfficeXP&#8217;s save as old format capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Yes&#8230; one of the many advantages of &#8216;freelancing&#8217; is having more room to educate people&#8230; the &#8216;normal users&#8217; who need more enlightenment. Something you don&#8217;t have that much if you&#8217;re one of those &#8216;in-house-type-of-programmers&#8217; here in this country. <\/p>\n<p>Of course I&#8217;m not generalizing here. I&#8217;ve known some good in-house programmers who do not only excel in what they&#8217;re doing, but passionately &#8216;evangelize&#8217; technological matters as well.<\/p>\n<p>But recently I&#8217;ve seen too much work-related grumbling from them. Quite sad. <\/p>\n<p>I am also an &#8216;in-house programmer&#8217; in my regular job and I tell you there is a big difference.<\/p>\n<p>Freelancers don&#8217;t have a boss&#8230; or at least we don&#8217;t call them &#8216;boss&#8217; we call them &#8216;clients&#8217;, our time is flexible (or at least we think it is) and we can work in pajamas (not naked&#8230; contrary to popular belief, programmers don&#8217;t work naked).<\/p>\n<p>You, my friend, are always welcome to the other side of the fence.<\/p>\n<p>Later&#8230; <font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">12:31<\/font>AM and I still have to finish one report for tomorrow&#8217;s MILD.client visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>Calvin Hsia <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/calvin_hsia\/archive\/2004\/08\/05\/209272.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">shares an overview<\/a> (and even some codes) on how to catalog and share digital pictures using Visual Foxpro, SQL and .NET. Very informative if you&#8217;d ask me. Makes you want to say Kenshin&#8217;s &#8216;There&#8217;s nothing I can&#8217;t do with this sword&#8217; line.<\/p>\n<p>Replace(LineAbove, &#8216;this sword&#8217;, &#8216;Foxpro&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/default.asp?url=\/library\/en-us\/dnwxp\/html\/xpsp2web.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Fine-Tune Your Web Site for Windows XP Service Pack 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>.NET linkwarp: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyatt.lu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hyatt.lu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adalovelace.ebloggy.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ada Lovelace<\/a> started her blogs. Keep it up, Leigh. Can we expect techblogs from Dennis and Exander too?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapingvoid.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gapingvoid.com<\/a> is an insightful site. I added it in my aggregator a couple of days ago when I read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapingvoid.com\/Moveable_Type\/archives\/000876.html\" target=\"_blank\">How to be Creative<\/a> post. Number <font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">13<\/font> is applicable in the field of software development: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapingvoid.com\/Moveable_Type\/archives\/000893.html\" target=\"_blank\">Never compare your inside with somebody else&#8217;s outside<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Netcrucible: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netcrucible.com\/blog\/PermaLink.aspx?guid=e1f8dc96-4c2f-41c3-891f-34e9ee874fc9\" target=\"_blank\">Sex and Cash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.25hoursaday.com\/weblog\/PermaLink.aspx?guid=7b8dc7cd-033a-4cb8-ba3a-6eabbd6d96d4\" target=\"_blank\">Sex and Cash theories<\/a>&#8230; probably I&#8217;ll post mine in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visited a client in Guagua, Pampanga today. Fixed a database corruption on one unit. Installed some ILS module updates. 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