ProFox August 2017

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[OT] Google employee's anti-diversity manifesto.
by Michael Madigan 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1… Whenever someone gets fired for expressing a differing opinion, a company has a serious problem. Anyone who believes diversity is more important that exceptionalism, has lost their way.

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Re: [NF] Freelance Achievement Stickers
by Gene Wirchenko 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

At 11:07 2017-08-07, Malcolm Greene <profox(a)bdurham.com> wrote: >For any of you on this list who are freelancers, the following may have >special >meaning.https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/freelance-achievement-… >Marking this NF vs OT because its tied to the business side of >development. Some of these are too true. Bug report: The achievement award "FINISHED BEFORE 01:00 AM" encourages finishing between midnight and 1 AM. (You know that there are people who would interpret it that way.) Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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[NF] Freelance Achievement Stickers
by Malcolm Greene 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

For any of you on this list who are freelancers, the following may have special meaning.https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/freelance-achievement-… Marking this NF vs OT because its tied to the business side of development. Malcolm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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RE: GETFILE() Returns Empty String in Some Cases
by Ken Dibble 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

>I agree with reasoning, but I have a slightly different methodology I actually have my own methodology; I just failed to follow it. I personally find type abbreviations to be difficult to read and interpret quickly. For generic variables I usually just prefix "the", ie. thefile, thefolder, thename, etc. I never use "the" for a table or cursor field, so this ordinarily prevents the kind of problem I experienced yesterday. Unfortunately, I had copied some old one-off code for this project in order to try to save some time. I need to remember that a lack of rigor will always eventually bite me. >Personally I am not a fan of the "M." prefix and find it unnecessary. A member of the VFP Team (I can't remember his name; he was the guy who "took out the slow parts" from various subsystems for VFP 8 and 9) wrote a blog article explaining that without the M. prefix, the system MUST compare every variable referenced to every field in the current work area every time the variable is accessed to determine whether the variable is a field name. He said that if the current work area contains a large number of fields, and the same variable is used over a large number of iterations in a tight loop, using the M. prefix makes a considerable difference in speed. He showed test results to demonstrate this. I do a LOT of array iteration. So I began using the M. prefix for variables inside high-iteration tight loops. I noticed a slight speed increase. However, I find the M. prefix ugly and distracting. I used it yesterday as a quick fix to demonstrate what the problem was. I will probably eventually rename the variable. Ken

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Outlook 2016 security no longer allowing VFP app to send emails as it did in the past
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

My client has Outlook 2016. At some point in the past, the Outlook version they had prior worked with the application that uses SMTP to send emails from it. I thought I recalled Microsoft tightening security over the years but that there was some (3rd party?) utility to get around the increased security blockage. Does anyone remember that and can comment on it? Thanks.

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SET DECIMALS Gotcha
by Gene Wirchenko 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Hello: I have just been bitten by SET DECIMALS. (Is there really any use for this besides making programming just a bit more difficult?) I have a table with values to four decimal places. I use <vfp> transform(thevalue,"999999.9999") </vfp> to create the string representation. With SET DECIMALS set to its default value, a value of 0.0123 is converted to " 0.0100" which loses two digits of precision. I had this problem with another data item that had more than two decimal places. I wrote a special function to handle it by setting SET DECIMALS to the number of decimal places I needed, doing the transform(), and setting SET DECIMALS back to the default. Why did I do that? Because the number of decimal places can vary and I was generating a line of print in one line of code, BUT also, because I really do not understand the point of SET DECIMALS. Could someone please clue me in? Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Re: SET DECIMALS Gotcha
by Gene Wirchenko 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

At 03:34 2017-07-31, Laurie Alvey <trukker41(a)gmail.com> wrote: >SET DECIMALS TO n only works when SET FIXED is ON. I just tried it. It works regardless of the setting of SET FIXED. [snip] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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[NF] back to naming conventions
by Stephen Russell 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

I just got a custom Access application that our product development team contracted out. Every table in the damn mdf file starts with tbl Just letting you know that fox doesn't own the <stupid> idea that type has to be baked into everything. -- 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] FileMaker Pro
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

A colleague of mine was telling me about how FileMaker Pro can create apps for multiple platforms. From their website (http://www.filemaker.com/products/starter-solutions.html) "Manage tasks on iPad, iPhone, desktop, and the web" Just wanted to poll the ProFox community on their thoughts on FileMaker Pro. tia, --Mike

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ProFox List Statistics for July 2017
by List Administrator Account 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

================================================== ProFox List Statistics July 2017 ================================================== Subscriber Count at End of Month: ProFox: 288 ProFoxTech: 185 ================================================== Total Posts: 340 (Down 0.87% from June 2017) Total [OT] Posts: 0 (Down 100.0% from June 2017) Total [NF] Posts: 82 (Down 46.75% from June 2017) Daily Message Counts for July 2017 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Date Count --- ---- ----- S 1 - 6 S 2 - 3 M 3 - 3 T 4 - 10 W 5 - 7 T 6 - 12 F 7 - 9 S 9 - 1 M 10 - 40 T 11 - 24 W 12 - 20 T 13 - 23 F 14 - 38 S 16 - 5 M 17 - 3 T 18 - 3 W 19 - 2 T 20 - 3 F 21 - 5 S 22 - 5 S 23 - 1 M 24 - 17 T 25 - 7 W 26 - 23 T 27 - 35 F 28 - 11 S 29 - 2 S 30 - 1 M 31 - 21 Message Counts By Day of Week for July 2017 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Count --- ----- Sun - 11 Mon - 84 Tue - 44 Wed - 52 Thu - 73 Fri - 63 Sat - 13 Distinct Posters to the List (changes relative to June 2017) ------------------------------------------------ Non-OT messages: 50 (Down 3.85%) OT messages: 0 (Down 100.0%) NF messages: 25 (Down 28.57%) Total number: 50 (Down 3.85%) Top 20 Contributors by Number of Non-OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 76 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 27 Alan Bourke 3. 24 Ted Roche 4. 22 Dave Crozier 5. 18 Paul H. Tarver 6. 17 Stephen Russell 7. 11 Laurie Alvey 8. 10 Malcolm Greene 9. 9 Tracy Pearson 10. 9 Gene Wirchenko 11. 8 Ed Leafe 12. 8 Paul Newton 13. 7 Thierry Nivelet 14. 7 Fred Taylor 15. 6 Man-wai Chang 16. 6 Frank Cazabon 17. 6 Darren 18. 5 Paul Hemans 19. 4 Kevin J Cully 20. 4 John Weller Top 0 Contributors by Number of OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts OT% Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ Top 20 Contributors by Number of NF Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 16 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 9 Ted Roche 3. 7 Malcolm Greene 4. 6 Paul H. Tarver 5. 5 Man-wai Chang 6. 5 Ed Leafe 7. 5 Dave Crozier 8. 5 Stephen Russell 9. 2 Alan Bourke 10. 2 Mike McCann 11. 2 John Weller 12. 2 Kevin J Cully 13. 2 Kurt @ VR-FX 14. 2 AndyHC 15. 2 Kurt at VRFX 16. 1 Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. 17. 1 Fred Taylor 18. 1 Paul Hemans 19. 1 Laurie Alvey 20. 1 Dave Thayer Top 20 Contributors by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 76 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 27 Alan Bourke 3. 24 Ted Roche 4. 22 Dave Crozier 5. 18 Paul H. Tarver 6. 17 Stephen Russell 7. 11 Laurie Alvey 8. 10 Malcolm Greene 9. 9 Tracy Pearson 10. 9 Gene Wirchenko 11. 8 Ed Leafe 12. 8 Paul Newton 13. 7 Thierry Nivelet 14. 7 Fred Taylor 15. 6 Man-wai Chang 16. 6 Frank Cazabon 17. 6 Darren 18. 5 Paul Hemans 19. 4 Kevin J Cully 20. 4 John Weller Top 16 Contributors by Number of New Threads Started ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 15 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 3 Paul H. Tarver 3. 2 Laurie Alvey 4. 2 Paul Newton 5. 1 List Administrator Account 6. 1 Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. 7. 1 Stephen Russell 8. 1 Brian 9. 1 Malcolm Greene 10. 1 Paul Hemans 11. 1 Gene Wirchenko 12. 1 Rafael Copquin 13. 1 Ken Dibble 14. 1 Gary Jeurink 15. 1 Tracy Pearson 16. 1 Dave Crozier Top 20 Non-OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 30 "An IF | ELSE | ENDIF statement is missing" 2. 20 Variable/Procedure Naming Conventions 3. 20 [NF] Multi-function printers 4. 17 Funny flashback Friday memory 5. 16 Scrollbar ghost effect 6. 14 Syncing data locally from a remote database 7. 13 [NF] has anyone played with Linux on a thumb drive? 8. 13 Outlook 2016 security no longer allowing VFP app to send emails as it did in the past 9. 13 "Source not available" -- seems to happen in the history of the list! 10. 12 Validating email addresses 11. 12 Determining VFP field to be AutoInc or not 12. 12 [NF] are you considering Python? 13. 11 numeric overflow 14. 11 [FIC] Problems with Adapted code 15. 11 [NF] B4i 16. 10 GETFILE() Returns Empty String in Some Cases 17. 10 {NF} Time to hang up my boots? 18. 9 [NF] What do you use to manage your clients & notes/work for each? 19. 9 SMS (text messaging) 20. 8 Array Declaration Top 0 OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 20 Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 30 "An IF | ELSE | ENDIF statement is missing" 2. 20 Variable/Procedure Naming Conventions 3. 20 [NF] Multi-function printers 4. 17 Funny flashback Friday memory 5. 16 Scrollbar ghost effect 6. 14 Syncing data locally from a remote database 7. 13 [NF] has anyone played with Linux on a thumb drive? 8. 13 Outlook 2016 security no longer allowing VFP app to send emails as it did in the past 9. 13 "Source not available" -- seems to happen in the history of the list! 10. 12 Validating email addresses 11. 12 Determining VFP field to be AutoInc or not 12. 12 [NF] are you considering Python? 13. 11 numeric overflow 14. 11 [FIC] Problems with Adapted code 15. 11 [NF] B4i 16. 10 GETFILE() Returns Empty String in Some Cases 17. 10 {NF} Time to hang up my boots? 18. 9 [NF] What do you use to manage your clients & notes/work for each? 19. 9 SMS (text messaging) 20. 8 Array Declaration

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