I have had a Playstation 3 since shortly after they were released, but have not been able to take advantage of the Hi-Definition because the component cable had been on back order. Well finally I received a component cable last night, and got to see the system working in full 1080p resolution. All I have to say is WOW. The picture from the Blu-Ray movies are amazing. I watched a couple different movies last night and was shocked at the color contrast, and the sharpness of the picture. Even greater than from the Cable broadcasts that I watch in Hi-Def....

Earlier I said that there were a a number of packages available for using Visual Foxpro with a Web Server, and I told you that I felt that they were all outdated and not necessary. Well today we will talk about what you should consider using Visual Foxpro for, and what not to use it for in a web page. Here is where you will learn why. Most of the packages on the market basically replace HTML with some extension that then calls a Foxpro prg to create the HTML that is sent to the client. This is about the...

I've decided what our project should be. BUT, let me give a little background first (how else could I make this post longer than it needs to be). One of the things that I used to enjoy as a teenager was to play Role Playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. Eventually I got heavily into the computer games like Zork. Then as the graphics capabilities of computers improved it seemed like the computer games left the old Text Adventures behind. Back in the BBS days there was also a short fad where someone would start a story by writing...

There are a few products out there that are used for interfacing Visual Foxpro and Web pages together to give your views dynamic content. Just a couple of these products are Web Connect, and FoxWeb. It's my opinion that both products are outdated and no longer necessary. While products such as these do make some aspects of dynamic web content easier, they are in no way efficient, and they more often than not are a waste of your Web Server's resources. Today's blog is going to explain how to use Visual Foxpro on a Web Server, and minimize the amount...

MERRY Chistmas!!!! Just thought I would post a Christmas Eve Blog. I hope everyone out there is having a good Christmas Weekend.

There are basically 5 things I would to see Microsoft do to Visual Foxpro, and No not one of them is in "Sedna." 1) SET CaseSensitivity ON/OFF On a daily basis I may work in as many as 5 different programming languages at a time, and only two of them are not case sensitive VBScript, and Visual Foxpro. There is nothing more frustrating than working on a C# project for a week, and then return to a VFP project and spend all day looking for a bug that turns out to be due to having a brain fart and writing...

Well I have to admit, the morning started off good, I woke up and my heart was beating. But it quickly went downhill from there. I looked over at the alarm clock, and I was 30 minutes late waking up. I'd forgot to turn on the alarm when I went to bed. I get out of bed flip the switch, and flash, and no light. The bulb blew. Walk down the hallway to my office sit down to my desk and look over at my server monitoring screen, and I see Red and Yellow flashing (not good). I'm thinking "wonderful,...

I just found this site so I thought I would set up an account and see what its about. I'll post more later. While your waiting for my next post here is something to puzzle over. What FoxPro function does the following code mimic: dime a[1] afie(a) b=alia(sele(0)) for c=1 to alen(a,1) m.&a[c,1] = &b..&a[c,1]. endf

My name is Michial Thompson, I've been programming since about 1978 or so. I began programming like most back then using the Basic Language for the TRS-80 Model 1 Level 1 that my school had in the library. The school only had 2 games for that Computer, one was Hangman, and the other was Blackjack. Hangman was boring, and there were only 100 words or so that existed in Hanman, and once you knew what they were it got boring. Now Blackjack is another story, I learned to play poker around age 5 or so, and by age 7 I...