{"id":377,"date":"2004-11-20T02:38:47","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T18:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=377"},"modified":"2007-10-20T19:11:52","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T11:11:52","slug":"still-relevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/377","title":{"rendered":"Still Relevant!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a break from the regular midnight coding to post this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devx.com\/opinion\/Article\/22488\" target=\"_blank\">Visual FoxPro 9.0: Still Here, Still Relevant<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Every FoxPro blog is linking to that article by David T. Anderson already.<\/p>\n<p>A highly recommended read for the &#8216;renegades&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to post parts of that article here and discuss some points but at <font size=\"2\" face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">2:37<\/font>AM I still have to wrap up a lot of things.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give an overview though of what I am currently tackling at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a project where you thought you have planned everything already&#8230; the database structures and flows, made things ready for networking&#8230; optimized the filter\/querying speed&#8230; tweaked a lot of parts, normalized and de-normalized carefully the databases and laid things out so that future upgrades would not be difficult for your system.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward by <font size=\"2\" face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">17<\/font> months in the future (which is the present time)&#8230; you&#8217;re in a situation where three offices separated by two and a half blocks apart will be using your program. Each office has the power\/rights to edit mostly any part of the database&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; which is cool since you&#8217;re application is &#8216;network ready&#8217; already&#8230; problem is there are no immediate plans to setup one yet and to interconnect these offices.<\/p>\n<p>The diskette\/log-modification was part of the worst case scenario during the planning phase but I wasn&#8217;t thinking I&#8217;d be diving into that.<\/p>\n<p>Until now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a break from the regular midnight coding to post this: Visual FoxPro 9.0: Still Here, Still Relevant. Every FoxPro blog is linking to that article by David T. Anderson already. A highly recommended read for the &#8216;renegades&#8217;. I&#8217;d like to post parts of that article here and discuss some points but at 2:37AM I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visual-foxpro","category-workblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","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=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}