Wireless at last! Bravo to the folks at Vision Data Systems for getting the computer cafe and wireless access up and running at the Essential Fox Conference.
Archive | April, 2003
West Wind Client Tools 4.35 release
West Wind Client Tools 4.35 release. West Wind Technologies has released an update to its client side Internet and tools product the West Wind Client Tools. The product includes all the Internet functionality of wwIPStuff (HTTP, SMTP/POP3, Sockets, FTP) as well as a light weight business object, SQL Server, Web data access, XML and a host of utility classes. This update fixes a few minor bugs and adds a few convenience properties that improves accessing the various objects. The documentation has also been updated for many of the over 20 classes and tools included in this toolkit. [FoxCentral.Net]
Off to Essential Fox!
Off to the Essential Fox Conference. Finally got a chance to show my “Graphing with VFP” in front of a live audience last night at the Boston FoxPro User Group and I’ve got the chance to make a few tweaks before I go on Saturday.
Garrett’s still got a job! Lucky man!
“Job stability is a _good_ thing. 🙂. I got word yesterday that my contract has been extended until December, so I won’t have to worry about finding another job for a while. 🙂 w00t!” from Garrett Fitzgerald’s Blog
Great News!
The SlashDot tidal wave subsides
Great bunch of activity on SlashDot. Always interesting to hear from the most vocal – not necessarily the most well-informed, but interesting nonetheless. My favorite comment:
VFP is unique among MS products in that regard. VB had a faithful following, but it was always too big and too loud and too contaminated by weekend “programmers” to have an effect over the company. VFP folks – they’re the Mujahedin of Microsoft users.
I’d prefer more of a parallel to the Fedaykin, but I’ll take it as a compliment, anyway.
382 comments on the main thread, 32 of them at level 4 or better.
220 on the followup thread with 14 of them at level 4 or better.
Patch XP, slow down
This is the second of these warnings about XP slowdowns I’ve seen. The first involved Service Pack 1 for Windows XP, and I passed it on the group at the Windows Server UG meeting earlier this month. This one is a Windows Update patch. Latest Windows XP patch can slow down PCs. Users report delays in launching applications [InfoWorld: Top News]
Counter-Point: Linux ‘Just Works’ For Me
And, it seems, for every opinion, there’s a contrary opinion… Linux ‘Just Works’ For Me (or, how I came to love Red Hat and Gnome) also via OSNews
Point: Why Linux Sucks as a Desktop
Opinions are like bellybuttons: everyone’s got one. From a site called vbRAD (didn’t VB used to be a language? – rimshot!), comes a piece called: Why Linux Sucks as a Desktop OS via OSNews
Brian Jepson picks up the story
http://www.jepstone.net/radio/2003/04/17.html#a535
The Register story on VFP-EULA linked on LinuxToday
http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2003041801026NWMSLL