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Re: [NF] Ed Yourdon
by Ted Roche 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Kent Beck's memorial is touching: https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/memories-of-ed-yourdon/10934219473… -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

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RE: [NF] Ed Yourdon
by Gene Wirchenko 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

At 00:38 2016-01-28, Dave Crozier <DaveC(a)Flexipol.co.uk> wrote: >Sad news indeed but he did make a big mistake with his predictions >about the severity of the Y2K problem despite selling a lot of books about it! Did he? Maybe, he wanted to draw attention to the problem, succeeded in that, and as a result, most of the problem was averted. [snip] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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[NF] Why OpenSource .NET?
by Stephen Russell 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Because M$ is kind and loving company? http://www.cio.com/article/3026664/open-source-tools/the-real-reason-micros… -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[NF] security tips from a hacking pro
by Stephen Russell 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

http://www.wired.com/2016/01/nsa-hacker-chief-explains-how-to-keep-him-out-… -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[NF] MSSS Intellisense correction
by Stephen Russell 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Ever have those red squiggly lines in the query editor and you have fixed the underlying table? Here is a quick fix for that current editor window. http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/1074816/MS-SQL-Intellisense-not-seeing-my-t… I know that if fails to fix tables on linked servers but figure few of you would ever deal with linked servers. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[NF] VMWare Fusion in the news: team "culled"
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

"Hey, let's outsource this. That will surely be a good move." ----said some failed projects https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=VMWare+Fusion&FORM=HDRSC6 Somebody here was talking about VMWare Fusion recently in that thread I had about a testing laptop.

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Norton blocking exe's
by Wes Wilson 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Tracy, Take a look at a Linkedin post I just did. I had the same problem recently and this group bailed me out. Norton found virus - 52 others did not. | | | | | | | | | | | Norton found virus - 52 others did not.When we sent a new EXE to our client, Norton deleted it. Even when we zipped it or changed the extension to a TXT. Our Norton had no problem with it. At the end o... | | | | View on www.linkedin.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | | Wes Wes Wilson, President ERW Custom Programming, Inc. Crescent Lake Plaza 5459 Elizabeth Lake Rd. Waterford, MI 48327 (248) 683-4182 LinkedIn Profile www.erw.com weswilson(a)erw.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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A Question of ListBoxes...
by Kurt Wendt 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Hey there Folks, So - I will admit - I have not worked much with a ListBox in the past. I think what I did work with - and this was like 2 or 3 years ago - was the ComboBox. Also - at my current gig (which they are converting me into a fulltime employee here at the end of March!) - I have almost no chance to work on interface design or changes. Which kinda Sucks - as that's really my favorite part of working in VFP. Instead - it's mostly data processing within the Apps, and working with SQL. As such - I'm glad to finally have an interface mod project that I can finally sink my teeth into. Anyway - in this particular app there is a screen with a big ListBox. And, for the current project - there are several things I need to look into. The first has to do with the layout and how the user interacts with the ListBox. In 1 or more other screens - there are Grids - and the request is really to make the ListBox act more like the Grids. For instance - they want to be able to Re-Size the widths of columns. Currently, the one ListBox displays 9 columns and up to 11 rows. They also want to Sort by any of the columns. I suspect if I give them some way to pick which field that they want to sort by - that I can simply issue a Refresh of the ListBox to re-display the data in a new sort order. So - I'm curious to know if anyone has a suggestion about re-sizing the columns at run-time. I know that programmatically it CAN be done according to the online help - by updating of the ColumnWidths Property. It's just a matter of what control I give to the user to enable this to happen. By the way - the reason I believe that a ListBox was used is because they want to be able to Select Multiple items at a shot. That leads me to the other problem. You see - they need to select items from one ListBox - that then gets Moved from that list into another ListBox on the same screen. The problem is - they say that sometimes it moves items that were NOT Selected. Has anyone heard of this particular problem before with the ListBox??? Thanks in Advance, Kurt Wendt Consultant (...soon to be Employee!) GLOBETAX 90 Broad Street New York, NY 10004-2205, U.S.A. Tel. +1-212-747-9100 Fax. +1-212-747-0029 Email: Kurt_Wendt(a)GlobeTax.com Web: www.GlobeTax.com GlobeTax does not provide or offer, and this is not, tax, investment or legal advice. This email and any attachments hereto is intended only for use by the addressee(s) and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, please immediately notify the sender at +1-212-747-9100 and permanently delete the original and any copies of this e-mail.

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Re: Alias()
by Gene Wirchenko 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

At 15:49 2016-01-27, Sytze de Boer <sytze.kiss(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Thanks for having a look Gene, but I don't think you've seen my code >correctly. I do not think that you posted the right code. >Clcode is a field in the Windebs table >It is the "currently" selected table (or table which is the controlsource >of the grid) >The error fires on the line that says "lcclient=clcode" Please look at the message I replied to, then tell me where that line occurs in it. [snip] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Re: Alias()
by Sytze de Boer 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

FRIENDS !! Thank you all for your comments. I appreciate it. I decided to post/ask my query because in the past 3 months I've also had some major issues. I cannot identify the cause and I'll briefly describe it here. I have a form with a grid. The controlsource is a free standing table. (Clients table called Windebs) The form has a command group with several buttons. Example, "Show Transactions" The click event has code such as lcclient=clcode select * from winhst where client=lcclient into curs temp I end up with an error "variable clcode not found" It is as though the underlying table is no longer Windebs, which is nuts because I did not "select" another table anywhere. Now, I've seen similar behavior when Anti virus software is locking the tables, or extremely slow network connections, but it just started happening about 3 months ago, and only with "some" customers. At one time I thought it was only on XP pc's but that theory is also disproved. At this stage I'm slowly trawling through my code and changing Click events to sele windebs lcclient=clcode select * from winhst where client=lcclient in to curs temp On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Gene Wirchenko <genew(a)telus.net> wrote: > At 08:54 2016-01-27, Alan Bourke <alanpbourke(a)fastmail.fm> wrote: > Someone (attributio lost) wrote: > >> > I still use Hungarian notation too, despite Microsoft telling us years >> > ago that it's no longer acceptable style. Then again, we Foxers have >> > always been rebels. lol >> >> For strongly-typed languages in modern development tools why would you >> use it? >> > > Because it is much shorter. Suppose I have an array of client data. > I might use: > sClient size of clients array > cClient how many clients > xClient index into array > > Makes sense for VFP probably. >> > > I have never used it much in VFP. I do not have the name collision I > do in other languages. > > Sincerely, > > Gene Wirchenko > > [excessive quoting removed by server]

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