Offered one of my clients 20 free dev hours in 2020 hoping to spur more business moving their suite of apps I've provided since 2003 forward. Modifying one app now that I can a comment dated 2004-12-28. Gives a nice warm feeling to be working on this app again. It was redesigned some time ago to use MySQL as the backend instead of DBFs and uses the 3-tier (UI/BizObj/DataObj) design, so I'm confident it'll be easy to work on. (Knock on wood!)
I'm sure some of you have gone back into your archives and felt good about some apps you've designed long ago. Just wanted to share the moment/feeling. ;-)
Programming in FoxPro is like putting on a comfortable pair of warm slippers.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 9:20 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:
Offered one of my clients 20 free dev hours in 2020 hoping to spur more business moving their suite of apps I've provided since 2003 forward. Modifying one app now that I can a comment dated 2004-12-28. Gives a nice warm feeling to be working on this app again. It was redesigned some time ago to use MySQL as the backend instead of DBFs and uses the 3-tier (UI/BizObj/DataObj) design, so I'm confident it'll be easy to work on. (Knock on wood!)
I'm sure some of you have gone back into your archives and felt good about some apps you've designed long ago. Just wanted to share the moment/feeling. ;-)
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Eric - I could not agree more! There are times - I just jump right in to VFP again - and, it feels Exactly that way!
I recently did a mini project, using FoxPro - to do GCode manipulation for 3D Printing. And, yeah, it was fun - and I felt some comfortable with FoxPro to do the little project!
-K-
On 1/13/2020 3:27 PM, Eric Selje wrote:
Programming in FoxPro is like putting on a comfortable pair of warm slippers.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 9:20 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:
Offered one of my clients 20 free dev hours in 2020 hoping to spur more business moving their suite of apps I've provided since 2003 forward. Modifying one app now that I can a comment dated 2004-12-28. Gives a nice warm feeling to be working on this app again. It was redesigned some time ago to use MySQL as the backend instead of DBFs and uses the 3-tier (UI/BizObj/DataObj) design, so I'm confident it'll be easy to work on. (Knock on wood!)
I'm sure some of you have gone back into your archives and felt good about some apps you've designed long ago. Just wanted to share the moment/feeling. ;-)
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 02:56, Kurt at VR-FX vrfx@optonline.net wrote:
Eric - I could not agree more! There are times - I just jump right in to VFP again - and, it feels Exactly that way!
I recently did a mini project, using FoxPro - to do GCode manipulation for 3D Printing. And, yeah, it was fun - and I felt some comfortable with FoxPro to do the little project!
I never use Fox commercially these days but I will use it to do text manipulation like this. Also, the command window is handy as a glorified calculator with history.
On 15-Jan-2020 12:13 AM, Paul Hill wrote:
the command window is handy as a glorified calculator with history.
+1 - and imho it is still the tool par-excellence for manipulating data from multiple backends.
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On Jan 13, 2020, at 5:27 PM, Eric Selje Eric@saltydogllc.com wrote:
Programming in FoxPro is like putting on a comfortable pair of warm slippers.
Not for me! I recently looked at some of the VFP code I wrote that's available on the download page, and it seemed almost foreign to me. I haven't had a runnable copy of VFP for 12 years, and haven't actively coded in it for 15 years, and I don't think I could maintain that code any longer.
-- Ed Leafe
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On 1/13/2020 10:56 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
On Jan 13, 2020, at 5:27 PM, Eric Selje Eric@saltydogllc.com wrote:
Programming in FoxPro is like putting on a comfortable pair of warm slippers.
Not for me! I recently looked at some of the VFP code I wrote that's available on the download page, and it seemed almost foreign to me. I haven't had a runnable copy of VFP for 12 years, and haven't actively coded in it for 15 years, and I don't think I could maintain that code any longer.
Was it overly complex code? I had a project many many years ago where I'd say "this is the section of code where you grab the Excedrin." Although admittedly, that was somebody else's construct, not from MBSS. :D
On Jan 14, 2020, at 09:55, MB Software Solutions, LLC mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
Was it overly complex code? I had a project many many years ago where I'd say "this is the section of code where you grab the Excedrin." Although admittedly, that was somebody else's construct, not from MBSS. :D
No, not really. It was just the style and structure seemed alien. Like if you used to speak a foreign language, but didn’t use if for many years: things aren’t familiar, and it takes a lot of conscious thought to follow along. Not like a pair of warm slippers at all. :)
-- Ed Leafe
Had cause to uplift some 16 year old code recently. Whenever I do this I basically cringe from start to finish at the crapness of it.
Oh you whiners... I'm still actively coding in VFP. And currently I have to maintain an app which was originally coded in 1998, then continuously updated up to VFP9, but lots of code fragments are from earlier versions. The original programmer died last year because of a heartattack, thus no clean handover was possible. That's why I work somewhat as a firefighter now; enhancing it to new requirements as well as refactoring old parts. That software controls multi-million-Euro Metallurgy Furnaces, with over 60 installations scattered over whole Europe. Multi-lingual with several codepages is really funstuff without Unicode :)
wOOdy
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: ProFox profox-bounces@leafe.com Im Auftrag von MB Software Solutions, LLC Gesendet: Montag, 13. Januar 2020 16:20 An: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Betreff: Nostalgia -- updating an app written 15+ years ago
Offered one of my clients 20 free dev hours in 2020 hoping to spur more business moving their suite of apps I've provided since 2003 forward. Modifying one app now that I can a comment dated 2004-12-28. Gives a nice warm feeling to be working on this app again. It was redesigned some time ago to use MySQL as the backend instead of DBFs and uses the 3-tier (UI/BizObj/DataObj) design, so I'm confident it'll be easy to work on. (Knock on wood!)
I'm sure some of you have gone back into your archives and felt good about some apps you've designed long ago. Just wanted to share the moment/feeling. ;-)
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On 1/14/2020 5:24 AM, Jürgen Wondzinski wrote:
Oh you whiners... I'm still actively coding in VFP. And currently I have to maintain an app which was originally coded in 1998, then continuously updated up to VFP9, but lots of code fragments are from earlier versions. The original programmer died last year because of a heartattack, thus no clean handover was possible. That's why I work somewhat as a firefighter now; enhancing it to new requirements as well as refactoring old parts. That software controls multi-million-Euro Metallurgy Furnaces, with over 60 installations scattered over whole Europe. Multi-lingual with several codepages is really funstuff without Unicode :)
wOOdy
That sounds like a really interesting project, wOOdy. How do you handle the various code pages...Lots of CASE statements?
Another active VFP programmer here with a high comfort level.
Paul H. Tarver
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Jürgen Wondzinski Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 4:24 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: AW: Nostalgia -- updating an app written 15+ years ago
Oh you whiners... I'm still actively coding in VFP. And currently I have to maintain an app which was originally coded in 1998, then continuously updated up to VFP9, but lots of code fragments are from earlier versions. The original programmer died last year because of a heartattack, thus no clean handover was possible. That's why I work somewhat as a firefighter now; enhancing it to new requirements as well as refactoring old parts. That software controls multi-million-Euro Metallurgy Furnaces, with over 60 installations scattered over whole Europe. Multi-lingual with several codepages is really funstuff without Unicode :)
wOOdy
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: ProFox profox-bounces@leafe.com Im Auftrag von MB Software Solutions, LLC Gesendet: Montag, 13. Januar 2020 16:20 An: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Betreff: Nostalgia -- updating an app written 15+ years ago
Offered one of my clients 20 free dev hours in 2020 hoping to spur more business moving their suite of apps I've provided since 2003 forward. Modifying one app now that I can a comment dated 2004-12-28. Gives a nice warm feeling to be working on this app again. It was redesigned some time ago to use MySQL as the backend instead of DBFs and uses the 3-tier (UI/BizObj/DataObj) design, so I'm confident it'll be easy to work on. (Knock on wood!)
I'm sure some of you have gone back into your archives and felt good about some apps you've designed long ago. Just wanted to share the moment/feeling. ;-)
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