{"id":299,"date":"2004-08-21T05:41:59","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T21:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=299"},"modified":"2007-11-02T13:25:17","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T05:25:17","slug":"miscellaneous-foxpro-links-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/299","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous Foxpro links and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.west-wind.com\/wwipstuff.asp\" target=\"_blank\">West Wind Internet Protocols <font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">4.55<\/font><\/a> (wwIPStuff) released. The class library supports the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">SMTP and POP3 Email support<\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">HTTP &#8211; Access Web content   from VFP<\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">Advanced HTTP support<\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">FTP &#8211; Transfer files<\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">Low Level Socket Access<\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">Dial up Networking<\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">IP Address validation<\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">Fast C based Conversion   Routines<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nAlong with that release, is an insightful article: <a href=\"http:\/\/west-wind.com\/weblog\/posts\/752.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Why West Wind Html Help Builder is NOT a .NET Application<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m days behind linking this&#8230; Ken Levy posted the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.com\/vfoxpro\/letters\" target=\"_blank\">August 2004 Visual Foxpro Newsletter<\/a> which contains a FAQ that answers some of VisualFoxpro-related issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danappleman.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Appleman<\/a> started his blog. His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danappleman.com\/index.php?p=6\" target=\"_blank\">advice for future computer science majors<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danappleman.com\/index.php?p=4\" target=\"_blank\"> RAD is not productivity<\/a> posts are an early favorite of mine&#8230; especially the RAD-related one.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">So let&#8217;s get real.   Bad programmers write bad code. Good programmers write good code.   RAD lets bad programmers write bad code faster. RAD does NOT cause   good programmers to suddenly start writing bad code.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nIf you can remember, a couple of months ago he enumerated <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.apress.com\/authors.php?author=Dan%20Appleman\" target=\"_blank\">why he refrains from blogging<\/a>. How I wish those unmovable-arse humans I convinced to blog would also have a change of mind.<\/p>\n<p>While reading <a href=\"http:\/\/wesnerm.blogs.com\/net_undocumented\/2004\/08\/rss_feeds.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wesner Moise&#8217;s blog<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/wesnerm.blogs.com\" target=\"_blank\">.NET Undocumented<\/a>, one of the first blogs I subscribed to), I found out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">KurzweilAI.net<\/a> now has an RSS feed. I &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.httrack.com\" target=\"_blank\">HTTrack<\/a>-ed&#8217; that site before when I found some very very interesting AI-related articles.<\/p>\n<p>If you are using the HTML version of that site and can&#8217;t seem to find the syndication feed link, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/news\/rss\/\" target=\"_blank\">a direct link to the rss feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More and more programmers who are using VisualFoxpro are coming out in the blogosphere. Here are two links that I have discovered just recently: <a href=\"http:\/\/craigbailey.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Bailey<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/acoat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Coates<\/a> (not entirely VFP but he mentions VFP once in awhile).<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if it is just me still getting used to waking up around <font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">4<\/font>AM (I usually sleep around <font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">3<\/font>AM) or my FireFox browser, that makes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozfox.com.au\/html\/speakers.htm\" target=\"_blank\">OZ 2004 Speaker section<\/a> scramble the names and the pictures. It works fine on the IE<font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">6<\/font> browser though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotdotnet.com\/team\/vfp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Foxpro on GotDotNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/keithdevens.com\/wiki\/ProgrammerFonts\" target=\"_blank\">alternative programming fonts<\/a>. Nice&#8230; thanks Vernon Labayog for that link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Wind Internet Protocols 4.55 (wwIPStuff) released. 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