The "What's New in VFP8 book is following right behind the product, with an expected shipping date of March 24th. Friends and collaborators Doug Henning and Tamar Granor have written this one. Looking forward to it!
9:03:36 PM comment []
The news.com piece makes the good point that RSS has nothing to do with blogs. It is a generic mechanism for pushing notices onto the web in a publish-and-subscribe metaphor. With a standardized format (okay, four), sites can easily be written to gather and process many of these RSS notices. There's an opportunity there, folks. Wish I could work it out.
8:44:55 PM comment []
If you're still looking for a great opportunity in the rapidly expanding blogosphere, consider the area of searching and cataloging. In this entry, Dave Aiello compares rssSearch and Feedster for features (Hint: try searching for "FoxPro" in both of them.)
8:12:14 PM comment []
Just got word from http://www.foxtoolbox.com that they have shipping confirmation that Visual FoxPro boxes are on their way. FTB seems like a good company, run by a couple of FoxPro guys I've met, and they are offering very competitive prices on VFP upgrades and full versions. In addition, they promise to contribute 3% of their sales to VFP user groups. If you haven't placed your order yet, jump on it! This is an upgrade worth getting.
6:08:19 PM comment []
According to the Boston Globe, Cisco is acquiring Linksys for a cool half-billion dollars. Our home office and home is black-and-purple LinkSys routers, wireless Access Points, and network cards. I hope this doesn't negatively impact the quality of hardware and support. I've been very happy with LinkSys, and Cisco is new to the consumer market.
LinkSys is a remarkable company: privately-held, with 308 employees, and sales of $429 million last year, according to the article. That's pretty impressive $/people.
11:58:38 AM comment []
In what could be considered a major compatibility milestone for the Wine project, support for file locking was introduced into the product. File locking is essential for ISAM-style database applications like Access, Visual FoxPro, dBASE and Paradox, and is also used in products like Microsoft Office. This vastly increases the utility of those tools on the Wine platform. Exciting progress!
10:15:17 AM comment []
If you're like me, you probably have a box of 12" vinyl LPs around somewhere, even though you may not have the ability to play with them - for me, the cover art and memories are worth the space they take up. One of these days, I promise myself, I'll get around to digitizing them. And the photo albums. And the cassettes. And the video tapes, VHS and 8 mm. Ya, right. Well, onto that list you can now add The Ars Technica Guide to Video Capturing (from Ars Technica)
10:09:31 AM comment []
Garrett's found a news aggregator that integrates into IE in this blog entry: "The Simple News Aggregator for RSS Feeds opens up a news aggregator on the left of your screen, borrowing the Search Companion sidebar in IE. Cool idea. Got some problems, but I'm sure they'll go away as snarf's author develops it."
9:30:34 AM comment []
Just got word from 
