ProFox April 2019

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[NF] UCLA Job & a 3DP Job...
by Kurt ＠ Gmail 15 Apr '19

15 Apr '19

So - sadly - I got rejected from the UCLA job! Believe me - it kinda freaked me out. They claimed that they had a pool of good candidates. But, alas - can that be true??? I mean - WTF - we know there are hardly any VFP programmers still around these days - and a good number of them have passed away over the years! They even claimed one foolish candidate did not even know the color of the FoxPro logo! Ugh... As such, I kinda freaked out when I got the rejection letter - especially as I REALLY Needed to move ASAP - as life at my sister's house had become a disaster!!! Well, I then remembered I personally knew the CEO's of 2 different 3DP co's down in San Diego. I reached out to BOTH of them - and Bang - one of them got back to me in like 25min - telling me it was perfect timing - since he was currently looking for someone - and indeed had an open position - for a person to run & deliver 3D Print jobs. I am now preparing to move down to SD this next weekend and leave SF. Hopefully it works out for the best. Of course, it will put me even Farther away from the FoxPro realm. However, I will still try to pop my head up here on occasion. Heck, maybe I can even meet some of the ProFox folks in person down there. L8r, -K-

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[NF] What happens on the Wednesday after the 2nd Tuesday?
by Ted Roche 15 Apr '19

15 Apr '19

Windows machines crash, or fail to start: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsofts-april-2019-updat… Just the usual. Avoid updates for a while, lock up your machines if you can. Happy Patch Tuesday Hangover! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[NF] StackOverflow Developer Survey Results
by Ed Leafe 13 Apr '19

13 Apr '19

I felt that I had to put [NF] in the subject line, because (spoiler alert!) there is no mention of Fox in these results. Nor any xbase language. Nor Xojo. Nor Servoy. Nor any of the other technologies trying to lure Fox developers out of their shells. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019 -- Ed Leafe

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[NF] Substandard Software
by Gene Wirchenko 12 Apr '19

12 Apr '19

Dear [unless you write software like that I am about to discuss] List Members: Look! I have a shiny new E-mail address. The apartment complex where I live decided to change things -- new management -- and the local phone company shortly will no longer be able to deliver service here. I have everything transferred over, and so far, so good for the most part. Never mind that my new ISP's Webmail page will not let me sign in. Never mind that their Web page chops off some important parts of the page. (I usually just use POP anyway.) (I do not want to change my screen resolution as I like to be able to read what is on it without going all squinty.) If you send E-mail to my old E-mail address, it will get to me, but this is no thanks to Telus support. The Telus support rep did not know how to do redirection of neither new E-mail, nor existing E-mail and would probably rather have hung up on me. Telus's redirect feature operates on only one E-mail at a time. I had accumulated about 65 messages in the few days I have not been using E-mail. You can see what is coming, right? Telus's Webmail feature does allow selecting more than one message at a time, but this is not available for redirect and there is no message about this either. In addition, how one enters the target E-mail address seems to require use of both keyboard and mouse. Please do not write software like this. I would regret your death. I would also regret you not dying. Have a good weekend. Unless you write software like the above. (Yes, I know. We have all had to do shortcuts, but general use software like Webmail should have a better (complete?) user interface.) Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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RE: [NF] StackOverflow Developer Survey Results
by juergen＠wondzinski.de 11 Apr '19

11 Apr '19

Even that I know of StackOverflow as a website, I haven't visited them since a decade or so. Does this make me a bad programmer? I even didn't know of that survey. Maybe that's the reason of those results? Maybe those at StackOverflow are just those who need to copy'n'paste some codefragments without understanding what they are doing (aka Youngsters with 10 or more programming languages on their skillset), thus a lot of specialized languages and their programmers don't show up at that site / survey. Why should I ask a VFP or Lianja or Servoy questions on StackOverflow, if there are targeted forums available with way better answers? wOOdy -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: ProFox <profox-bounces(a)leafe.com> Im Auftrag von Ted Roche Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. April 2019 00:52 An: profox(a)leafe.com Betreff: Re: [NF] StackOverflow Developer Survey Results On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 4:05 PM Ed Leafe <ed(a)leafe.com> wrote: > I felt that I had to put [NF] in the subject line, because (spoiler > alert!) there is no mention of Fox in these results. Nor any xbase > language. Nor Xojo. Nor Servoy. Nor any of the other technologies > trying to lure Fox developers out of their shells. > > https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019 ... but Python did quite well! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server]

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[Admin] Gmail is making changes...
by Tracy Pearson 10 Apr '19

10 Apr '19

Thought some people here would like to know about this. https://security.googleblog.com/2019/04/gmail-making-email-more-secure-with- mta.html Have a good one, Tracy

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Mobile Forms
by Chris Davis 09 Apr '19

09 Apr '19

Hi All We are looking at extending our application so we can gather some information from mobiles. The easiest example is a signature for proof of delivery. We certainly don't want to start from scratch and are hoping to find a solution which will allow us to feed some basic data across for the forms to use, have barcode scanning and signature capture. And then send us the data back to process. We have found one solution which is almost what we want but not quite, just wondered if anyone out there is doing a similar thing and can make any recommendations. Googling it just shows how many solutions are out there. We are hoping to find one that will allow us to resell the soltution as our own possibly with some branding to make it look like ours as well. Regards Chris. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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X# and scripting
by Johan Nel 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

Good day all, As I promised, will keep you updated. On foxite I also made the same announcement I posted here, regarding the X# Roadmap for 2019. Tom Knauf, then responded with the following. I also include my reply. Hope it is of interest to some of hopefully all: > What I am mising is something like execscript(cCode). > I can have any code including if then, variables, calls to own functions,... in a char variable and it will be executed. > We built a complex script system to allow user their own workflow and never found a good replascement in c#, windev,... > An own parser would be extremly much work to do. > Any plans/ideas on that ? Hi Tom, No plans/ideas are needed. X# already contains xsScript. The following will already run: *File:HelloWord.prgx // Note the x in the file name if you want it to run directly. CLASS MyHelloWorldClass PROTECTED txtAS STRING CONSTRUCTOR()&& The Init of VFP classes txt :="Hello World from Class" RETURN PROPERTY SpeakAS STRING GET txt&& Access/Assign = PROPERTY GET/SET in X# END CLASS FUNCTION HelloWorld()AS STRING RETURN "Hello World from Function" PROCEDURE HelloWorldProc() System.Windows.Forms.Console.Writeline("Hello world from Procedure") RETURN FUNCTION Start()AS VOID ?HelloWorld() HelloWorldProc() ?MyHelloWorldClass{}:Speak RETURN *End of File:HelloWorld.prgx In your program you just have to obj := xsScript(cCode :=FileToStr("c:\...\HelloWorld.prgx")) && Note obj will now hold an in memory compiled version of HelloWorld.prgx, && that you can happily pass anywhere in your application, && no "parsing" of the script needed anymore!!!! obj:Start() You now speaking to the Clipper guy who already work the last 25 years exclusively on what you describe above, called in the Clipper/VO/Vulcan/X# world Data-driven applications. I have a slightly different approach, I store my scripts in a Relational Database and not in zillions of txt files. I am busy writing a series on the concept of which the first 12 of [Insert end of series here] articles are already available in the downloads area of the X# webpage. https://www.xsharp.info/itm-downloads?folder=general%252FLessons Would you be interested in a joint venture, where we take the best of both those worlds Solution := ((XBase := VFP * Clipper fork) * (Knowledge := Tom * Johan) * (Environment := X# * .NET)) ? Solution:ToString()&& A 100% .NET solution that runs at 99% of the speed of a compiled Application.NET, but was created in 1% of the time it will require a developer to roll out in PRG files? Looking forward to hear from you or anybody else using data-driven techniques, Johan Nel George, South Africa Friends of XSharp http://xsharp.info <http://xsharp.info/>

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Fwd: Looking for Visual FoxPro Developer - Philadelphia PA
by Richard Quilhot 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

VFP Job Rick Q quilhotr(a)gmail.com ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: SMRITI PAL <SMRITI.P(a)cynetsystems.com> Date: Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 5:15 PM Subject: Looking for Visual FoxPro Developer - Philadelphia PA To: <quilhotr(a)gmail.com> Hi Richard, Hope you are doing well! My name is *SMRITI*, recruiting specialist with *CYNET SYSTEMS Inc.*. We are a national recruiting company which partners with many of the leading employers in US and Canada. Find more about us at www.cynetsystems.com . You may also visit our career site at jobs.cynetsystems.com . We have an opportunity for *Visual FoxPro Developer* with one of our clients in *Philadelphia PA.* Please see the job details below and let me know if you would be interested in this role. If interested, please send me a copy of your resume, your contact details, your availability and a good time to connect with you or you may contact me on (571) 207-7965. If you are no longer available and donot wish to receive emails from us or if you would like us to mark you as a passive candidate in our system, please respond back to this email and let us know, and we will update our records. *Title: **Visual FoxPro Developer* *Location: **Philadelphia PA* *Terms: **Contract* *Job Details: * *Job Description:* - 5+ years Visual Foxpro development experience - Ability to understand and modify current v9 syntax in addition to pre-SQL, array-based FoxBase+ code - Experience handling all aspects of a project - Meeting with the users to understand the requirements - Perform the actual coding - Perform any necessary testing and move into production - Resolve any outstanding issues and get sign-off from the users - Excellent oral and written communications skills - Experience migrating VFP to .Net is a plus *Thanks,* *SMRITI* *CYNET SYSTEMS Inc. * *SMRITI.P(a)CYNETSYSTEMS.COM <SMRITI.P(a)CYNETSYSTEMS.COM>* *Ph:**(571) 207-7965** | Fx:866.838.0907 | **WWW.CYNETSYSTEMS.COM* <http://www.cynetsystems.com> *IT & ENGINEERING CONSULTING* *How did I do? For feedback please email *myfeedback(a)cynetsystems.com *Please visit http://jobs.cynetsystems.com <http://jobs.cynetsystems.com> to view our Open Jobs.* If you would like to unsubscribe from CYNET SYSTEMS Inc., please click here <http://careers.cynetsystems.com/optout.jsp?d=3530305f7175696c686f747240676d…> . --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[NF] Conditions in JOIN clause instead of WHERE
by Garrett Fitzgerald 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

Hey, all. I had a general SQL question. Often, I find myself needing to use the syntax: FROM a LEFT JOIN b ON a.key = b.key AND b.field = 'Value' because if I filter b.field in the WHERE clause, I've effectively made the LEFT JOIN an inner one. That makes me wonder, at what point do we stop moving conditions to the JOIN clause? Obviously, some can't move for syntactical reasons, such as subqueries. But short of that, when does it make sense to limit a non-outer join in the join criteria? Never? --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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