ProFox March 2016

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[OT]
by Adam Buckland 12 May '16

12 May '16

So this is before Super Duper Tuesday gets into force.... So Who's gonna win... Hillary or Trump? Outside the USA... but can vote... ;-) Adam

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RE: A Curious Find: FoxTales
by Kurt Wendt 28 Apr '16

28 Apr '16

Yes - it is entertaining - getting a look at the inside of the Fox co.! Its also fun reading about the development of FoxPro - which they originally codenamed FireFox. And, remembering the excitement of it first being unveiled by Dave himself at the Fox Dev. conf. I attended. So - in reading this book - I can Seriously relate to my own experiences - originally working w/Foxbase+, then being the 1st at my job to get to play with FoxPro. Although, I just finished the chapter where this programmer woman named Carol was fired. And, Kerry & the others thought it strange when it happened - especially since Dave had another programmer, Chris, fire the woman instead of himself. Interesting indeed Momma! Regards, Kurt Wendt Consultant Tel. +1-212-747-9100 www.GlobeTax.com -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Gene Wirchenko Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 2:04 PM To: profoxtech(a)leafe.com Subject: Re: A Curious Find: FoxTales At 12:04 2016-03-01, Kurt Wendt <Kurt_Wendt(a)globetax.com> wrote: [snip] >However, when I did find - was a small book called FoxTales: Behind the >Scenes at Fox Software. And, in the past I have read some true stories >about technology - like "Mind of a New Machine" and "iWoz". >So - I figured this would be interesting. And, indeed - Kerry Nietz is >doing a great job in telling of the story. Am at the point in the book >where the product was renamed from FireFox to FoxPro - and Kerry is >relaying his work in creating the Report Writer (originally based upon >a 3rd party program - which they then integrated into FoxPro for DOS). A great book. I looked, and, yes, it is on the shelf about five feet away. I should reread it. [snip] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko [excessive quoting removed by server]

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Norton will not let me send EXE - Need help fast
by Wes Wilson 19 Apr '16

19 Apr '16

I zip up an exe and send it to my customer as I have done for years. Last week, Norton would not let my customer unzip it. The "Run anyway" did not work. Norton deleted the exe. So I gave the exe a txt extension. Same thing. Did not even let us rename it to exe. It deleted is. We both have the latest version of Norton. Any suggestions? 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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[NF] Getting MySQL integer primary keys (NOT AUTOINC) idea...similar to VFP's old IF SEEK("TheTable","Keys","TheTable") AND RLOCK('Keys') idea
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 08 Apr '16

08 Apr '16

Tech used: VFP9SP2 against MySQL (MariaDB) backend I created the new incarnation of FabMate a year ago with 16-byte character keys. Works fine, but I wanted to entertain the idea of using integer keys again instead (because I love the idea of 4 bytes instead of 16) and I did NOT want to use auto-increment keys in the tables because I wanted to have more control over them during data-entry, so basically, I can create all kinds of records and then at save time AND ONLY THEN do I want to store the actual data (and that's why AUTOINC keys wouldn't work). Oh...and they wouldn't work because I have several child-parent-grandparent relationships being created all during data-entry. So I'm thinking "how do I get something like VFP's old NextKey generation" akin to this: * this was pseudo-code, off the top of my head trying to remember my coding from 17+ years ago FUNCTION GetNextKey(tcTable as String) as Integer LOCAL llGotIt as Logical, liNewKey as Integer IF SEEK(tcTable,"MyKeysTable","TableName") THEN llGotIt = .F. DO WHILE NOT llGotIt IF RLOCK("MyKeysTable") THEN REPLACE NextVal with NextVal + 1 in MyKeysTable liNewKey = MyKeysTable.NextVal UNLOCK IN MyKeysTable llGotIt = .T. ELSE WAIT WIND NOWAIT "Trying to get record lock on table counter...please wait" ENDIF ENDDO ELSE liNewKey = -1 ENDIF RETURN liNewKey ENDFUNC My idea at this point was to simply have ONE table who's primary key *IS* an Auto-Increment integer field, where I insert something (probably the unique 16-byte key I'm generating now) and just grab the resulting new primary (integer) key created via this old routine: FUNCTION GetNewID(tiHandle as Integer) as Integer * Retrieves newly created ID from MYSQL backend. *** mjb 11/09/2011 - added here from Scheduler LOCAL liKey as Integer IF SQLEXEC(tiHandle,'SELECT @@IDENTITY as iNewKey',"curKey") = 1 THEN && retrieve PK from resulting cursor liKey = curKey.iNewKey IF VARTYPE(liKey) = "C" THEN liKey = VAL(liKey) ENDIF ELSE liKey = -1 ENDIF RETURN liKey ENDFUNC && GetNewID(tiHandle as Integer) as Integer Can anyone think of a better way? tia, --Mike

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[NF] Microsoft turns over a new leaf, and announces new Embrance, Enhance & Extend policy!
by Ted Roche 06 Apr '16

06 Apr '16

No, really. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/03/31/mobile-app-develop… I think the new management at Microsoft is making a pretty smart break from the past. Bill Gate's MS was "Information at your Fingertips" and "A PC on every desk" and that was mission accomplished, though thanks to the WWW and Mozilla as much as MS. Steve Balmer's Microsoft was... I don't know what. Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers? Open Source is a Cancer? The new MS is announcing MS for All! Built native Android apps on Windows! Build IOS apps on Windows! Host Linux on Azure! Lots! of! Exclamation! Points!!! I don't think they're getting out of the Windows PC or DotNet business, but it sure sounds like they are taking them for granted. Admittedly, Day Two of their big conference and they're grabbing all the headlines. The devil will be in the details, as always. In six months, I expect clients will be echoing back to me, "But can't you run your Linux apps on Windows?" and "I heard you can run Macs on top of our Windows machines." -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

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Re: [NF] Getting MySQL integer primary keys (NOT AUTOINC) idea...similar to VFP's old IF SEEK("TheTable","Keys","TheTable") AND RLOCK('Keys') idea
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 01 Apr '16

01 Apr '16

On 2016-03-24 18:08, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > At 13:17 2016-03-24, mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: >> On 2016-03-24 14:17, Stephen Russell wrote: >>> You control freak. Let the backend do what it does so well. >>> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/auto_increment-faq/ >>> I gave up on that single table of last PKs 15 + years ago when I >>> found that >>> the backend already did it for us, all we had to was ask for it. >> >> From SNL: "Jane, you ignorant slut." lol > > I find this sort of language really offensive and unprofessional. > Please do not use it. There are much more polite ways to express > disagreement. You missed the intended humor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jEVCX-d4Zk

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[NF] Reading a Floppy from Mac 1985-1988
by Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

What are the steps to read on a PC a 3.5 Floppy written on a Boxed Mac about 1985-1988? Thank you. *Shai / שי Charles Hart Enzer, M.D., FAACAPVolunteer Associate Professor of PsychiatryUniversity of Cincinnati Medical CenterWebSite:http://TinyURL.com/EnzerMD <http://TinyURL.com/EnzerMD>* *“There is no passion to be found playing small -- in settling for a life** that is less than the one you are capable of living.”* *Nelson Mandela* *Stop **Spammers** and **Virus Propagation* *Before forwarding, please delete the history of all email address* <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.
by Alan Bourke 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

That means bash etc I'm *quite* sure this isn't an April Fool ... https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/30/ubuntu-on-windows-the-ubuntu-userspa… -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[NF] Postgresql to Excel
by Stephen Russell 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

https://github.com/CarlosCorreiaM16e/pg2xls -- 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] SSD Drives
by John Weller 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

Is it possible to partition an SSD drive? TIA John John Weller 01380 723235 079763 93631 Sent from my iPad

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