{"id":403,"date":"2004-12-11T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-11T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=403"},"modified":"2007-10-20T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T10:55:00","slug":"calvin-hsia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/403","title":{"rendered":"Calvin Hsia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/calvin_hsia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Calvin Hsia<\/a> is on a roll. First he posted the <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/calvin_hsia\/archive\/2004\/12\/08\/278572.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Intellisense: inspecting live objects<\/a> information a couple of days ago. I refrained from linking to it then since almost every Foxpro-related blog I have on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rssbandit.org\" target=\"_blank\">RSSBandit<\/a> points to it already.<\/p>\n<p>Today, he discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/calvin_hsia\/archive\/2004\/12\/10\/279734.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Using non-Automation compatible types<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/calvin_hsia\/archive\/2004\/12\/10\/279765.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Creating mailing labels automatically<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why do we always link to <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/calvin_hsia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Calvin Hsia<\/a> you ask?<\/p>\n<p>Well aside from his being the Visual Foxpro lead developer, his blogs are very helpful and informative. <\/p>\n<p>(Insert your adjective here) programmers\/developers always look beyond on how to just merely use a thing. We are also interested on why things are done that way.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back to my high school algebra teacher&#8230; it&#8217;s more of a &#8216;how was the formula derived?&#8217; and not only how to use the formula.<\/p>\n<p>So why the link again..?<\/p>\n<p>If the lead developer of the programming language of your choice shows passion towards his work, reflects that passion through sharing, sharing snippets, sharing informative stuff, sharing the VisualFoxpro experience&#8230; you tell me and I&#8217;d be glad to link to him\/her.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not only Calvin Hsia who shares these things though&#8230; the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vsdata\/\" target=\"_blank\">VS Data Team<\/a> has a blog which includes Ken Levy, YAG and John Koziol from the VFP team. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; ah one of those reasons we prefer VisualFoxpro.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a Saturday, and I&#8217;m turning off my coding mode for a while.  I&#8217;ll turn on the <a href=\"http:\/\/pixelcatalyst.plastiqueweb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GFX mode<\/a> and finish up the <a href=\"http:\/\/seventhsense.shiver7.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SeventhSense 2004 Project<\/a> before the <font size=\"2\" face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">2004<\/font> part of the title becomes obsolete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calvin Hsia is on a roll. First he posted the Intellisense: inspecting live objects information a couple of days ago. I refrained from linking to it then since almost every Foxpro-related blog I have on my RSSBandit points to it already. Today, he discusses Using non-Automation compatible types and Creating mailing labels automatically. Why do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gfx","category-visual-foxpro","category-workblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","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=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}