{"id":560,"date":"2005-12-12T14:05:33","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T06:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=560"},"modified":"2007-10-09T12:56:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T04:56:01","slug":"andrew-macneill-how-misinformation-feeds-foxpro-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/560","title":{"rendered":"Andrew MacNeill:  How misinformation feeds FoxPro myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew MacNeill:  <a href=\"http:\/\/akselsoft.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/how-misinformation-feeds-foxpro-myths.html\" target=\"_blank\">How misinformation feeds FoxPro myths<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, Arial\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not about the product &#8211; it&#8217;s about the DESIGN!!!&#8221;<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed&#8230; indeed.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with Visual FoxPro (or any RAD tool for that matter) is because they&#8217;re easy to use, some irresponsible programmers fire up wizards and tools to create applications without proper planning.<\/p>\n<p>PLAN&#8230; plan plan&#8230; things on paper.  Create solutions that will cater not just to the immediate need for this month, or this year&#8230; but to the future.<\/p>\n<p>I usually spend two weeks (and sometimes even more) in the planning phase which includes the creation of the database structures and overall flow.  <\/p>\n<p>And in more than one instance, I&#8217;ve even brought some folded papers in my wallet so I can retrieve things easily if ever an idea or a possible problem pops into my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Back in my previous workplace, we even brainstorm on things like this.  Every programmer shares his input while the others fire up possible scenarios and problems.<\/p>\n<p>As for the misinformation part, the world holds too much consultants and IT specialists already, who for the sake of discussion, let&#8217;s say are powered with the latest processor chips in their brains.<\/p>\n<p>They think fast.<\/p>\n<p>Too fast.<\/p>\n<p>In this field of software development, thinking deeply is much preferred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew MacNeill: How misinformation feeds FoxPro myths. &#8220;It&#8217;s not about the product &#8211; it&#8217;s about the DESIGN!!!&#8221; Indeed&#8230; indeed. The problem with Visual FoxPro (or any RAD tool for that matter) is because they&#8217;re easy to use, some irresponsible programmers fire up wizards and tools to create applications without proper planning. PLAN&#8230; plan plan&#8230; things [&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-560","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\/560","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=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}