Off to the monthly meeting of BAFUG, where I’ll be practicing my Great Lakes Great Database Workshop presentations.
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Have ‘puter, WhilBlog
Whil’s blogging, albeit without tools yet. Whil Hentzen, famed
publisher of the Hentzenwerke Publishing Group, author, FoxTalk journal
editor, speaker, Microsoft “Most Valuable Professional,” first “FoxPro
Lifetime Acheivement Award” winner, and host of the Great Lakes Great Database Workshop, has started a blog on the rightmost column of the homepage of Hentzenwerke Publishing.
A web log in the true definition of the term, with HTML markup in his
web site tool of choice, and no ability for subscriptions, permalinks
or comments. Yet. Still, a good first step. Perhaps he’ll attend my
session on “Simple Internet Subscriptions with VFP and XML” for some pointers on developing his own RSS feed.
A disclaimer for the few of you who might not know: Hentzenwerke has
published my last several books, and I’ve worked with them as author,
tech editor and PDF-tweaker.
Whil Hentzen in Dallas, 4 September 2003
Whil Henzen Speaks! D/FW FoxPro UG Sept 4th at 7:00PM. This month’s topic will be “New tools that will provide additional business opportunities for Fox developers”
by Whil Hentzen. Here is your chance to meet Whil Hentzen and hear his
presentation on open source, Linux, new directions, and a myriad of
other ideas as Whil continues his “Fox Is Everywhere” User Group Tour. Please visit our web site for details, location, etc. [FoxCentral]
Ken Levy speaks at Boston Area FoxPro User Group
Ken Levy is Product Manager for Microsoft’s VS Data Tools. Ken’s presentation covered much of the material presented at the FoxPro DevCon, blogged here and here. Here’s the agenda:
- Road to VFP 8
- Goals/Overview of VFP 8
- Visual FoxPro 8.0 demos
- Visual Studio .NET 2003 overview
- Demos: VFP 8.0 with VS.NET 2003
- VFP 8.0 news and announcements
- Europa demos
- XML Tools for VS.NET demos
The last bullet point was the new one, but each of the points was enhanced with feedback Ken’s received over the summer.
Boston Area FoxPro User Group: Ken Levy,
Ken Levy, Product Manager for Microsoft’s VS Data Tools division, will be presenting tonight to the Boston Area FoxPro User Group, a last-minute change due to travel re-scheduling. Looking forward to hearing what Ken has to say on the state of Visual FoxPro 8, the recently announced Service Pack for VFP8, and the future version, code-named ‘Europa.’ In addition, Ken will be talking about Visual Studio .NET and a new XMl/XSL editor he’s managing, scheduled to be included in the next version of VS.NET, code-named Whidbey, and possibly available as an add-on for the current version.
Details at http://www.bostonusergroups.com/vfpboston
Microsoft ships updated OLE DB Provider for VFP 8.0
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Visual FoxPro 8.0. The Visual FoxPro OLE DB Provider (VfpOleDB.dll) exposes OLE DB interfaces that you can use to access Visual FoxPro databases and tables from other programming languages and applications. The Visual FoxPro OLE DB Provider is supported by OLE DB System Components as provided by MDAC 2.6 or later. The requirements to run the Visual FoxPro OLE DB Provider are the same as for Visual FoxPro 8.0. This free download version of the Visual FoxPro OLE DB Provider is a updated version from the one included in Visual FoxPro 8.0. [FoxCentral.Net]
Boston Area FoxPro User Group Special Meeting: Ken Levy, August 12th
Boston FUG, Tuesday, August 12: Ken Levy, VFP8 News, Europa, .NET & XML. Boston VFP User Group on Tuesday, August 12, 6:30pm at the Microsoft offices, 6th floor, 201 Jones Rd., Waltham MA, presents: Ken Levy, Microsoft VS Data Product Manager, will be presenting the latest news for Visual FoxPro. Ken will also discuss and demo Visual FoxPro 8.0 along with VFP 8.0 working with VS .NET 2003. Ken will also show demos and discuss Europa (next version of VFP) and Whidbey (next version of Visual Studio .NET). In addition, Ken will show some exciting demos of the new XML/XSLT editor/debugger for VS .NET. For more information on the latest news that will be discussed, refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/letters/ [FoxCentral.Net]
Ken Levy’s monthly letter
Ken posts a letter from the editor at the Microsoft MSDN Visual FoxPro site.
RSS as a web service, XSL transforms for the different dialects?
I like the idea of RSS as a web service. For slower, close-enough-to-real-time news feeds such as the FoxPro feeds I’m hosting at http://www.tedroche.com/RSSFeeds.html, hourly refreshes are good enough. For more of an on-demand site such as Amazon, with thousands of different requests, real-time response via and XML web service transformed to an RSS feed is the right answer.
Now, is there a way to transform the RSS 2.0 feeds that I’m producing to display the other dialects of RSS that a requestor might be interested, such as 0.91, 0.92 or 1.0? Or is there a core commonality that I could produce and then transform (on the fly through XSL, or more programmatically) to generate the desired feed? I don’t want to discourage traffic by not providing information in the format requested. I’ve already run into one aggregator site that was interested in 1.0 only.
Here are some clues a Google search gave me:
radio.weblogs.com/0100887/stories/ 2002/03/18/anXsltTutorial.html
http://www.ecommnet.co.uk/articles/bloggerRDF.asp
Here’s the opposite effect, consuming different RSS feeds via XSLT:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/01/02/tr.html
Antisocial Software?
I’ve seen this phenomenon at the last couple of FoxPro conferences: folks with laptops can be tuned in or way out of the presentation. At DevCon, I blogged the keynote live and made my one and only appearance on the Radio Top 100 blog list. OTOH, some folks tune out and miss the whole thing. Of course, they could do that with Solitaire, too. But now, with IM, they can join in a conversation… interesting. NY Times: In the Lecture Hall, a Geek Chorus. Mr. Aral discovered that he was not alone. The next day in the auditorium, which was outfitted with a wireless link to the Internet, a group of people booted up their laptops, opened their IM programs and spent the next three hours happily exchanging notes during the presentations. Link via Tomalak’s Realm