Greetings, happy campers. Pop quiz this fine Monday.
1. How many VFP books do you own?
2. How many are dead-tree paper and how many ebooks?
3. What is your most well-worn VFP books? Or most referenced ebook?
4. What book do you regret not owning?
5. Would you buy VFP books if you could find them?
6. Preferred format? Paper, PDF, CHM, ePub, HTML, other (which?)
On 20 March 2017 at 13:08, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings, happy campers. Pop quiz this fine Monday.
How many VFP books do you own? 8
How many are dead-tree paper and how many ebooks? All paper
What is your most well-worn VFP books? Or most referenced ebook?
Original VFP 6 Manual
What book do you regret not owning? Not sure (bet there is alot)
Would you buy VFP books if you could find them? Definitely
Preferred format? Paper, PDF, CHM, ePub, HTML, other (which?) PDF
would be nice
-- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com
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Hey Ted - interesting pop-quiz!
Turns out - there are a BUNCH of VFP books here at my day job - none of them being used. AT one point - they were going to throw them away when they moved to the new office (which occurred about a year ago) - but, they were not tossed. They are still here...
Regards, Kurt Wendt Senior Systems Analyst
Tel. +1-212-747-9100 www.GlobeTax.com
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Greetings, happy campers. Pop quiz this fine Monday.
1. How many VFP books do you own?
2. How many are dead-tree paper and how many ebooks?
3. What is your most well-worn VFP books? Or most referenced ebook?
4. What book do you regret not owning?
5. Would you buy VFP books if you could find them?
6. Preferred format? Paper, PDF, CHM, ePub, HTML, other (which?)
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Kurt Wendt Kurt_Wendt@globetax.com wrote:
Turns out - there are a BUNCH of VFP books here at my day job - none of them being used. AT one point - they were going to throw them away when they moved to the new office (which occurred about a year ago) - but, they were not tossed. They are still here...
And still unused? :)
I have no idea how many are actually unused. They got ALL the books WAY before I was here on the scene... :-)
Regards, Kurt Wendt Senior Systems Analyst
Tel. +1-212-747-9100 www.GlobeTax.com
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Monday, March 20, 2017 2:47 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Monday Survey Question
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Kurt Wendt Kurt_Wendt@globetax.com wrote:
Turns out - there are a BUNCH of VFP books here at my day job - none of them being used. AT one point - they were going to throw them away when they moved to the new office (which occurred about a year ago) - but, they were not tossed. They are still here...
And still unused? :)
- How many VFP books do you own?
Two. The Hacker's Guide To Visual FoxPro 3.0, and the one I wrote. :)
- How many are dead-tree paper and how many ebooks?
One of each.
- What is your most well-worn VFP books? Or most referenced ebook?
See above.
- What book do you regret not owning?
None.
- Would you buy VFP books if you could find them?
No. Maybe 15 years ago I would have.
- Preferred format? Paper, PDF, CHM, ePub, HTML, other (which?)
Any full-text indexed electronic format.
- How many VFP books do you own?
Everyone single one that was published from FoxPro 2.0 thru VFP.
- How many are dead-tree paper and how many ebooks?
All dead tree editions. May have a few ebook equivalents.
- What is your most well-worn VFP books? Or most referenced ebook?
Hackers' Guide by a large margin. Looks like its been thru a war.
- What book do you regret not owning?
None.
- Would you buy VFP books if you could find them?
No. Currently purchasing Python, NoSQL, Machine Learning, Cloud books.
- Preferred format? Paper, PDF, CHM, ePub, HTML, other (which?)
Kindle format because it sizes to devices better than other electronic formats. No longer plan on purchasing paper based books.
Malcolm
- How many VFP books do you own?
Everyone single one that was published and/or sold by Whil.
- How many are dead-tree paper and how many ebooks?
All PDF format apart from Megafox and Client Server (Electronic and Paper).
- What is your most well-worn VFP books? Or most referenced ebook?
Megafox and Office automation
- What book do you regret not owning?
None as I think have them all.
- Would you buy VFP books if you could find them?
Non that I haven't got apart from the original VFP6 printed manuals.
- Preferred format? Paper, PDF, CHM, ePub, HTML, other (which?)
PDF or Kindle.
Dave
On 3/20/2017 2:08 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
Greetings, happy campers. Pop quiz this fine Monday.
- How many VFP books do you own?
4: Hackers guide to vfp 6.0, Client Server Apps with Visual Foxpro and SQL server, Internet Applications with Visual Foxpro, Deploying Visual Foxpro solutions.
- How many are dead-tree paper and how many ebooks?
All are real paper, but I know I have a pdf copy of one. The fact that I don't remember which one, or where it is, tells you my preference for question 6.
- What is your most well-worn VFP books? Or most referenced ebook?
Deployment - probably glanced through it a few times. Hacker's Guide - used a few times when something was acting odd.
Internet apps and Client server Apps? Falling to pieces, with several bookmark papers sticking out everywhere. Huge return on my investment for those two.
- What book do you regret not owning?
Nothing comes to mind.
- Would you buy VFP books if you could find them?
At this point, doubtful. Maybe would be interested in a VFP to Python migration book, or something like that.
- Preferred format? Paper, PDF, CHM, ePub, HTML, other (which?)
Paper. I like knowing where the book is physically, and be able to quickly flip back and forth while retaining an idea of where I am in the book.
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 2:08 AM, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
- How many VFP books do you own?
I got the Hacker's Guide 6.0 the CHM file. The physical book was given away to a company that hired me. :)
- How many are dead-tree paper and how many ebooks?
You meant school textbooks and photocopied notes? I thought only paperbook fictions were using recycled paper. Textbooks and photocopying are using white quality papers.
- What is your most well-worn VFP books? Or most referenced ebook?
- What book do you regret not owning?
None of them were frequently-used. Maybe the tasks I dealed with were not complicated.
- Would you buy VFP books if you could find them?
Only if they were cheap! :)
- Preferred format? Paper, PDF, CHM, ePub, HTML, other (which?)
The modern standard publishing format is PDF, searchable ones.
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Isn't it about time you upgraded your Ubuntu 9.10 ;-)
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Thanks, all for your answers!
Crazy Monday morning thought before the coffee kicked in was working up a web storefront to sell/resell classic VFP books.
Coffee's working by now.
Never mind.
On 3/22/2017 11:23 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
Thanks, all for your answers!
Crazy Monday morning thought before the coffee kicked in was working up a web storefront to sell/resell classic VFP books.
Coffee's working by now.
Never mind.
I don't know how much you spent on that coffee, but I think it just repaid you many, many times over! :-P
http://www.isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781565290020
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Vince Teachout teachv@taconic.net wrote:
On 3/22/2017 11:23 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
Thanks, all for your answers!
Crazy Monday morning thought before the coffee kicked in was working up a web storefront to sell/resell classic VFP books.
Coffee's working by now.
Never mind.
I don't know how much you spent on that coffee, but I think it just repaid you many, many times over! :-P
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At that price, the book should be about 4 inches thick, wouldn't it? ($50 an inch).
Fred
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781565290020
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Vince Teachout teachv@taconic.net wrote:
On 3/22/2017 11:23 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
Thanks, all for your answers!
Crazy Monday morning thought before the coffee kicked in was working up a web storefront to sell/resell classic VFP books.
Coffee's working by now.
Never mind.
I don't know how much you spent on that coffee, but I think it just
repaid
you many, many times over! :-P
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Fred Taylor fbtaylor@gmail.com wrote:
At that price, the book should be about 4 inches thick, wouldn't it? ($50 an inch).
Yep. Worth it, in its day. I was brought in to tech-edit a portion of the book, along with John Scobey, and then promoted to pinch-hit and rewrite a few chapters. The primary authors -- Lisa Slater (Nicholls) and Steven Arnott -- were top-notch, and I learned a lot, both about writing and FoxPro! "With" credits went to Nancy Jacobsen, Joseph Gotthelf and yours truly; introduction by Dr. David L. Fulton.
Book was over 1000 pages long, and there were matching DOS and Windows versions. Listed for $35.00 in 1993, which is ~$60 in 2017 USD. I suspect the price appreciation is a combination of the high quality of the product and the fact that if they ever sell one, they need to pay off 20 years of storage!
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