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Southwest Fox 2017 Recap
Southwest Fox 2017 is in the books. Here are my thoughts: Smaller, younger crowd When I walked into the keynote on Thursday night it was clear that this was a smaller crowd than years past. We were...
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Using OneDrive to Sync Development Machines
[tl;dr : Don’t do it!] I have a laptop at work that I do most of my development work on, but I don’t take it with me everywhere. Sometimes I’ll find myself at home next to my older PC and wanting to do...
View ArticleEric’s Completely Unironic Best Practices for Password Management
Based on Real World Examples I’ve Seen. Seriously. Write your passwords on post-its and leave them on your monitor.Share your passwords with everyone on your commute. Then if you forget you can ask...
View ArticleQuick Utility to Compare DBF Schemas
I recently revisited a project that I had dropped about 6 months ago. The client sent me an updated batch of data to work with, and I remembered the first thing I needed to do was massage the new data...
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Finding iPhone Serial Number (Even if it’s locked)
I sit here with 30 iPhones that need to be responsibly disposed of (recycled). They’re unlabeled, and have tiny IMEI numbers on the back that have no correlation to the serial number we (may, but...
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Southwest Fox 2019 Recap
I’m as surprised as anyone to be reading that headline. Yes, there’s still a conference devoted to Visual FoxPro in 2019, over a decade after Microsoft pronounced the product dead and almost 4 years...
View ArticleA FoxPro to Python Quickie
[Today in the #ThatConference #ThatTrivia Slack board, there was this math question:“Identify a multi-digit number such that when each digit is raised to the power of itself, and the result of each of...
View ArticleAn Application Lifecycle
When I started working at the Federal Courts back in 1991 (!), I wrote applications from scratch to maintain the jury pool, take care of the finances of the court, including fines and restitution...
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A Brief History of 25 Years of MadFox
[An article for the APCUG newsletter] In January of 1995 I had the good fortune to be able to attend my very first FoxPro DevCon. I had been a user of FoxBase, and its precedent dBase, since 1985 but...
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Virtual FoxFest 2020
For many years, late October has meant a family reunion of Visual FoxPro developer in Gilbert AZ for Southwest Fox. But 2020 is messing with everything and that means no in-person conference this year....
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