Ted, The problem with experts is that Ex - stands for "out of Date" spert (spurt) - a drip under pressure!!!
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: 10 July 2017 16:11 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: {NF} Time to hang up my boots?
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Laurie Alvey trukker41@gmail.com wrote:
It's getting to the point where I don't know half of what you guys are talking about. In a recent post (A trusted application), Paul Hemans wrote "Probably Cordova on mobile and nw.js on the desktop.". I have no idea what these technologies do. Mea culpa..
https://nwjs.io/ and https://cordova.apache.org/ although don't be surprised if reading those pages leave you with more questions than answers. Both talk about Node as if you already know what that means (it's a JavaScript server that can runs on your local machine as well as internet servers) and that you understand the NPM is the Node Package Manager. There's an awful lot of acronyms and and shortcuts used in the Javascript world and easy to feel like an outsider could never climb the learning curve, but it's not really that bad.
It is all [NF], though. Paul's thread seemed to start off talking about a FoxPro app and then, *Whoosh* off he went into the new shiny tech.
I decided there was so much new technology and acronyms and increasing rate of change that it was impossible to keep up alone, so I choose to join a company of fellow experts. In 1995. Not much has changed, in that respect.
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