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Wow... that is all that I could really say, wow! On Wednesday October 26, 2011, while I was waiting to hear what I knew would be a fantastic...

As many know I have been contracting with a local company for the last 3 ½ years working on their custom Visual FoxPro application(s). This ...

Every so often I am still amazed at how awesome the VFE Framework really is. I hear a lot about YAGNI these days (you ain't going to nee...

Many Visual FoxExpress developers have made inquiries about the status of Visual FoxExpress. It has been quite a while since there was a ful...

At Southwest Fox 2009 I showed a little utility that allows the creation of a VFP report based on the layout of a form or class. I had a ne...

Toni and I are back from Southwest Fox. I'm physically drained and mentally charged. This was definitely the most fun I've had at a ...

I had reason recently to build a sample data set for testing purposes. A little bit of background is required before I start showing you the...

I wrote this little function for a teammate the other day and could not decide if I should blog about it or not. It is a simple function tha...

A week or so ago I was asked about tracking menu hits in the Visual FoxPro application I am working on for a client. This application is vin...

Speaker announcements were posted for Southwest Fox 2009 today and I'm pleased to announce that Toni and I will both be speaking at Sout...

At my onsite gig I'm maintaining a VFP app that's been ported from FoxPro DOS to FoxPro Windows to VFP. It has a lot of old code in ...

I'm back home after my surgery. For the millions of readers out there who may not have been privy to the minute details of my health, le...

This fall I watched Alan Stevens present at the Southwest Fox conference and I really liked the way he had his Visual FoxPro IDE windows doc...

Today a friend of mine posted this comment on Twitter: "Every so often I practice typing with my nose, just in case I lose my arms in s...

I have been meaning to blog about this for almost a year but kept pushing it to the back burner. A client of mine had an intermittent proble...

Most of my client-server experience has led me to believe that a chatty application will perform better than a chunky one. A chatty applicat...

I have spoken to several people lately about how I do not like running with UAC turned on under Vista. The concept of UAC is a good one; I j...

I received an email last night asking about how we render the table of contents from our blog to our home page. I thought this would make a ...

Our son Yuki, from Japan, married his friend Yesuel, from Korea, Friday evening in a mock wedding ceremony at the Toledo Botanical Gardens. ...

Virtually every developer I know that's doing any kind of client-side development for the browser using JavaScript prefers Firefox over ...

As many of you know, right now I am working on a project with a lot of legacy FoxPro code. This week some team members decided to add a prim...

I just deleted my Plaxo account. I've been on Linked In along time and am much happier with it than Plaxo. Plaxo.com immediately crashes...

I attended a webinar yesterday on Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.0 and I think I wasted my time. Even though it was described as Level 200 –...

I recently starting working with a great group of guys at a local company. I am not so sure that I like actually having to get dressed every...

Thank goodness that Mike settled that nasty bit with the SWFox team because it allowed me to once again be a full time part of F1 Technologi...

Finally after months and months of bitter negotiations we've resolved our long standing dispute with Tamar Granor, Rick Schummer and Dou...

I've had a number of people ask me recently about my position on the announcement that there will be no future versions of Visual FoxPro...

I know that it has been a while since we published a Blog entry but we have been very busy. Leilani is growing quickly and doing very well o...

Toledo, OH Mike & Toni Feltman are pleased to announce that Will (fka Mickey) Feltman is now a big brother! Will welcomed his new baby s...

Crystal VFE 2.01 is now available. Please click here for details.

Last night I spoke at LAFOX on docking in VFP. Before my session started Ken Leland approached me about a problem he has in his application ...

Did you know that Word has internal version control? I just stumbled across the feature this week. It is not team version control but it is ...

Once again Microsoft has seen the wonderful things that the Fox people (or past Fox people) are capable of and rewarded him. Yag has once ag...

Twice in the last two months I have talked to someone getting errors because the modified fields list was too long in the data they were try...

Resolution has released Xcase 8.0. In my opinion, this is the most major upgrade to Xcase to date. I've been a big fan of Xcase for a lo...