My 9/11 story. I was a speaker at the 12th Microsoft Visual FoxPro? Developer’s Conference (“DevCon”). I went downstairs from my hotel room at the San Diego Harbor Hyatt to discover the horror of the terrorist acts. Large TVs had been rolled into each room. I watched as the towers fell. As the 8 AM sessions of DevCon were about to begin, I went to the speaker’s lounge to see how my fellow speakers were holding up. There was a discussion over whether we should continue. My statement was simple enough: “If we don’t keep going on, we let the bastards win.” A few days later, at a gathering, I overheard an attendee thanking a speaker for having kept their session going. He said that to do otherwise would have been “to let the bastards win.”
I like to think that I helped.
Framework is still supported, according to this website. Still DOS-based. Still powerful enough for most people.
If you’re looking to buy me a nice shirt, this one would be nice in a large.
This article reports on “Microsoft’s Next Must-Have Operating System” – not Microsoft .NET Server 2003, due out sometime soon, but the next one after that!
— TWikiGuest – 10 Sep 2002
No, really, I was looking for something practical when I ran into Learn Tetris in 21 Days [Link: http://www.lstud.ii.uib.no/~s977/darkside/tetris/ gone]. What a hoot! It’s a lot more likely you’ll master the game than, say “Learn C++ in 21 Days.”
Still not taken seriously, we are, hmm?
Keep meaning to add Hopkinton, NH to my personal web page. [Ed: irony. 13 years later, when I go to update the post, the URL is no longer valid. The replacement URL is no longer valid. I had to Google it.]
Paul Graham, co-author of what is now Yahoo! Stores, on Beating the averages. Substitute FoxPro for Lisp and I agree with him.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. — Mark Twain
Friday is System Administrator Appreciation Day
Some useful links for DNS stuff:
Daniel J. Bernstein, author of qmail, explains Internet mail wonderfully here.
Work on my client’s app was interrupted by a desparate call from an old friend. They needed to deliver a version of IE that acted like the kiosk version, but would display the taskbar. Today. Took four hours, mainly fighting with InstallShield and trying to nail him down on specs. In FoxPro, of course.
Once again used the marvelous and simple Web Services within Visual FoxPro to post and then update an entry on http://www.foxcentral.net. It seems that the Boston Area FoxPro Users Group has moved to http://www.bostonusersgroup.com/vfpboston.
— TWikiGuest – 24 Jun 2002
Summer Solstice! Sunrise: 5:07 Am, sunset 8:30 PM, for the longest day we get in these parts. Yahoo.
Spent the morning fixing up the EssentialSourceSafe PDF, using Adobe Acrobat. Cool program, although the interface was giving me some pretty inconsistent results, no doubt due to my unfamiliarity with the program. Never the less, I was able to produce a pretty nice looking TOC in about two hours.
