{"id":341,"date":"2004-10-11T22:15:18","date_gmt":"2004-10-11T14:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=341"},"modified":"2007-10-29T11:33:04","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T03:33:04","slug":"foxpro-links-and-being-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/341","title":{"rendered":"Foxpro links and being &#8216;normal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your daily dose of VisualFoxpro articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/vfoxpro\/default.aspx?pull=\/library\/en-us\/dnfoxtk04\/html\/ft04h1.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Using GDI+ in VFP 9.0 with the FFC Library, Part 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/vfoxpro\/default.aspx?pull=\/library\/en-us\/dnfoxtk04\/html\/ft04g16.asp\" target=\"_blank\">The Kit Box: You &#8216;Auto&#8217; Complete Your Editboxes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbalertz.com\/kb_193243.aspx\" target=\"_parent\">How To Set the Default Window&#8217;s Printer Using OLE Automation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbalertz.com\/kb_178890.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">How To Use ON ERROR To Debug Applications<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbalertz.com\/kb_189281.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">How To View Documents with FoxPro OLE Controls without MS Office<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/maks.ebloggy.com\" target=\"_blank\">Beakman<\/a> and I once in a while talk on Y!IM about programming concepts, nationalis-tech principles, alien abductions, VB versus VFP stuff, old school programming versus programming approaches of the future, changing RP through techblogs, computer science education and a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight we were discussing about programming moods. Particularly about me not being &#8216;in the zone&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>You know those type of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/fog0000000339.html\" target=\"_blank\">days where you can&#8217;t pull your arse to code<\/a>. The not-in-the-mood-to-code moments. And I was asking Beakman <a href=\"http:\/\/discuss.ntsl119.com\/\/index.php?showtopic=29\" target=\"_blank\">how he handles these kinds of situations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course being the athletic person that he is, he recommended jogging, playing basketball&#8230; even badminton&#8230; getting some rest and gym (ewrk!)<\/p>\n<p>Yes he is more disciplined than I am.<\/p>\n<p>The talk was enlightening until he scribbled out these words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">&#8216;Try to act as a normal person.&#8217;<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nDamn. That must have been the best advice I had in months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilerobotics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">You<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/discuss.ntsl119.com\/\/index.php?showtopic=29\" target=\"_blank\">Post a comment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your daily dose of VisualFoxpro articles: Using GDI+ in VFP 9.0 with the FFC Library, Part 1 The Kit Box: You &#8216;Auto&#8217; Complete Your Editboxes How To Set the Default Window&#8217;s Printer Using OLE Automation How To Use ON ERROR To Debug Applications How To View Documents with FoxPro OLE Controls without MS Office Beakman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomscribbles","category-visual-foxpro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}