Here’s mine:
Right in the middle of a presentation, too.
What’s the scariest error message you’ve ever seen?
This post originally appeared on the Foxite Weblogs site.
Author / Kevin Ragsdale
FoxForward Returns!
UPDATED March 30, 2014: Removed dead links.
The FoxForward Conference returns to Alpharetta, Georgia this September, and I know a way for you to attend for FREE!
Simply submit a session proposal. If your submission is accepted, you get to attend the conference for free.
Last year’s FoxForward conference was a great experience for me, and I’m really looking forward (no pun intended) to attending this year’s conference as well.
(The deadline for submitting session proposals is April 15th, so get busy!)
Not interested in speaking at the conference? Registration begins April 15, and if you register by May 25 you’ll register at an unbelievable low price – $350. Two-and-a-half days of intense FoxPro-related sessions, catered lunches and breaks, a conference T-shirt and printed materials. Not to mention seeing old friends and making new ones. Not a bad deal at all!
Kevin Cully did a great job last year with the first FoxForward Conference. I’ve got great expectations that this year’s conference will be even better.
I Doubled My Productivity With One Simple Step
For the last couple of months, I have been dragging. Seems like every day I get just a little bit slower and a little less productive.
The last couple of weeks, it’s gotten to the point where I dread getting on the laptop at night, looking for something — anything — to keep me from having to sit down in front of the keyboard.
Yes, for the last two months I’ve been horribly unproductive and uninspired.
Last night I didn’t really feel like working (again), and I lost interest in the NCAA Tournament when Georgetown beat Vanderbilt, so I decided to try something that I hoped would knock me out of this unproductive funk: I wiped Windows Vista Business off the laptop, and reinstalled a fresh copy of XP Professional.
This morning I cranked up the laptop around 4:00 AM to finish setting everything up. An hour later, I started working.
WOW!
And do I mean W-O-W! What a difference! I felt more productive right away! Everything was faster. A LOT faster. The flashy Aero interface was gone, but to be honest, it had gotten a bit “old” for me by the third day of running Vista.
I know this doesn’t quite match Microsoft’s intention for their “The WOW starts now” marketing campaign for Vista, but Vista is, in my opinion, a dog. And not even a complete dog. More like a “we better ship this thing by January 30th or Steve Ballmer will eat our livers with some fava beans and a nice chianti” dog. Sure, there’s a ton of enhancements and improvements in Vista — BUT — when software gets in the way of productivity instead of enhancing productivity, I start looking for other software.
I’m not even talking about the User Account Control. I mean the computer got slower, and slower, and slower with each passing day. And as it slowed down, I became less inclined to work on
That said, I upgraded my Media Center 2005 to Windows Vista Home Premium last month, and I do like many of the UI enhancements in Home Premium’s Media Center app.
If you’re considering a move to Vista (any flavor) for daily production use, I strongly recommend waiting for (at least) service pack one.
Just my opinion…
This post originally appeared on the Foxite Weblogs site.
A VFP Book Wish-List
Now that we know VFP 9 SP2 (and Sedna) will be the final production version of Visual FoxPro, I’d like to toss out a couple of thoughts on things I’d love to see from Hentzenwerke Publishing.
1. Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro 9.0
The Hacker’s Guides (VFP6 and VFP7) have always been a great reference for VFP developers, and I think a VFP 9 update would be the “definitive” Hacker’s Guide.
2. GigaFox
We’ve got KiloFox and MegaFox. I’d love to see a GigaFox, updated for VFP 9, Sedna, Vista, etc.
3. Internet Apps with VFP 9.0
No doubt I would probably still have zero Fox-related apps on the web today had it not been for the original Internet Apps book. But it is certainly dated. An update for ASP.NET would be invaluable to many of us. Maybe even a new section (or book) on non-IIS development, too.
Those are my big three, so to speak, and I would personally guarantee they’d sell at least one copy of each (I have space reserved for them on my Hentzenwerke Bookshelf).
This post originally appeared on the Foxite Weblogs site.