I'm going to reply but in a different direction. Yes, this approach might
require a DBA (or data structure change).
I'm currently working on a system that has Pricing Calculation rules. These
rules can be configured ahead of time to go into effect at a future date. For
example, you can
I think this is key. You all know that I'm a huge Xojo fan, however I can't
ever believe that rewriting an application for something other than a real
concrete reason is a good idea. Basically if you are wondering if you should
rewrite a VFP application, then the answer is "no" already. If
may as well.
-Kevin
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From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Kevin J Cully
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2019 4:57 PM
To: ProFox Email List
Subject: RE: [NF] Migrating Skills From Foxpro to Xojo
There's a lot there. I'm out of time for the day unfortunately
a library of tools, forms and code
across hundreds of similar custom applications.
Paul H. Tarver
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From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Kevin J
Cully
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2019 8:11 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: false news
Well, a lot of that article is correct, even though I don't want it to be. VFP
as a *language* is as secure as the programmer programmed it to be. VFP as a
*database* isn't secure itself. You can encrypt fields. You can encrypt the
directory that the data is stored in. But DBF data isn't
I was looking for an old blog post but I couldn't find it. At times there may
be a problem with the ODBC connection and using CAST(), especially with
VARCHAR(max). If you ever experience problem using CAST() and accessing a
field of type VARCHAR(max), take a look at CONVERT(). This will work
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Subject: Re: IBM to buy RedHat
On Oct 29, 2018, at 8:24 AM, Kevin J Cully wrote:
>
> On one side, I think this adds legitimacy to Linux operating in business here
> in the USA, which hasn't seemed to publicly be Linux friendly up to this
> point. On the oth
Yes, I was a bit disappointed to hear the news. I always held up RedHat as a
champion of Linux and as a successful business model riding on top of open
source offerings. I like that. I would guess I'd say that I have guarded
optimism. Unfortunately I think this is IBM's ball to fumble. On
For sending email: https://www.mailgun.com/
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From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Richard Kaye
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 1:42 PM
To: profox@leafe.com
Subject: RE: IMAP via VFP
And my research is telling me this is a silly request because
Take a look in the Downloads area for the Stru2PostgreSQL and Stru2MySQL_2
program. It should be pretty easy to modify those to get the structures
generated.
http://leafe.com/download/stru2postgreSQL.PRG
http://leafe.com/download/stru2mysql_2.prg
-Kevin
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From:
Instead of using Outlook automation, and risking it breaking during every
upgrade, and potentially being marked as a spammer, perhaps using a
transactional email service might be an approach to consider. Depending on how
many invoices you are sending, it could cost less than $40 per month.
I didn't know John very well. I got to know him over a few days at the
conference I was hosting called Fox Forward. John contacted me ahead of the
conference and said that he couldn't afford the conference but asked if he
could come up and just hang out in the hallway, not go to any of the
I was working at a place that did ran batch processes at night using VFP. One
of the managers came up to me and told me of a process that used to take 30
minutes now was taking 5 hours. Combined with the other processes, this meant
we couldn't complete the processing overnight any longer and
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 12:49 PM, Kevin J Cully <kjcu...@cherokeega.com>
wrote:
> Hey Joe,
>
> I'm hearing a Ted-ism coming along as a "It depends", but ...
>
> 1. For sending massive amounts of individual emails to external email
> addresses, look at a service
Hey Joe,
I'm hearing a Ted-ism coming along as a "It depends", but ...
1. For sending massive amounts of individual emails to external email
addresses, look at a service such as Mandrill. (https://mandrill.com/) It
costs money but will keep your domain from getting black-listed, keeping you
I'd purchase a Raspberry PI. The power for this $30 computer can come from the
USB port on the TV. Output from the Raspberri PI is from the HDMI port into
the HDMI port on the TV.
I'd have the Raspberry PI boot and load a browser full screen with no menu.
That browser would be configured to
We use a PDF markup tool called BlueBeam. Within that program that have the
ability to shrink PDFs. I think I remember there is a way to automate BlueBeam
but I've never done it myself. Not free, but not badly priced either.
https://www.bluebeam.com/
-Kevin
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It's been a while since I've purchased a new computer from Dell. I have
purchased a lot of refurbished computers from Dell however. It seems that
their new order computers get a delayed delivery date, and then ... the
computer will be delivered earlier and without notification and then ...
We use OpManager to manage our 1,000pcs and many servers.
https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/?MEtab
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From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Matt Slay
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 1:08 PM
To: profox@leafe.com
Subject: How to monitor
1. 64bit VFP IDE for access to virtually unlimited RAM
2. 64bit compiled applications
3. Simultanous compilation to multiple target platforms: Linux, Mac, Windows
4. Add the target platform of Web and allow me to cross use business objects I
also use in desktop applications.
5. Make it as easy to
I use Radmin with one of my clients. $49 per PC as a one-time fee.
The only trick is that you need to open a port on their firewall. The port can
be of your choosing. Example: port 4899. I've used TeamViewer to connect to
their PC, and then use their PC to connect to their firewall and set
Our plan review people just got some big, high resolution monitors when looking
at these incredibly detailed plans. I think these are the ones:
http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/accessories/apd/210-aiyz?c=us=19=en=210-AIYZ
I think the idea was to have a curve to the monitor to keep the user from
I thought this would be of interest to the ProFox members.
Xojo 2017 Release 2 was released today. Release features include:
* 64-bit support for XojoScript
* 64-bit string handling is faster and more consistent
* 64-bit support for Windows icons and version information
* GTK3
Good luck.
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From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of
mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2017 10:02 PM
To: ProFox Email List
Subject: RE: VFP9SP2 apps on Citrix
On 2017-08-11 14:55, Kevin J Cully wrote:
> W
We used Citrix at a healthcare company I worked at around 2005. Basically
everyone came in to an office, just to telecommute into our hosted servers that
was in a city 30 minutes north of our office. It was a valid approach to
better securing workstations.
I was doing a good bit if VFP9 at
I know a lot of FileMaker developers that are abandoning FM because of the
outlandish licensing fees that FM/Apple are now charging.
Here's a blog post (from 2015) about looking for a new development platform and
eventually returning to Xojo. http://timdietrich.me/blog/going-with-xojo/
Web,
If you want to check if an email address is in a valid format, there are many
RegEx expressions that you can use. Easy and free.
If your client is sending out lots of emails and is worried about bounces and
"Unsubscribe" functionality, then I'd use a mailing service such as Mandrill by
"It depends." - Ted Roche
Why reinvent the wheel?
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/setting-up-replication/
What is an acceptable delay in the replication process? And what is the size of
the data and how much data is changing daily? Hourly?
-Kevin
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From: ProFox
uage', but there doesn't seem to be one for Linux unless you
subscribe to some proprietary system.
If you are the former (like me), what O/S, Language, Database did you use?
I've been looming for about 22 years.
John
On 07/11/2017 01:22 PM, Kevin J Cully wrote:
> When I started my business in
When I started my business in 2000, I looked around and couldn't find anything
that I like and was as integrated as I'd want.
I ended up building my own system that had contacts, companies, projects,
activities, invoices, and accounts receivable with reporting mostly to help pay
taxes.
Don't
I think MailJet and Mandrill are offering similar services with a different
pricing structure. Let me see if I can get this math correct for a couple of
example scenarios.
If you were to send out 1,000 emails per month ...
... for MailJet at $7.49/mo * 12mo = $89.88/year
... for Mandrill at
dro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible you can turn on a log, make your change, turn it off,
> and read the log?
>
> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Kevin J Cully <kjcu...@cherokeega.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm trying to (partially) reverse engineer
I'd recommend looking into a service such as Mandrill (by MailChimp).
https://mandrill.com/
$20 / 25,000 emails. I've seen it demonstrated and it's wicked fast to send
individual emails to individual recipients around the globe. For that price,
it'd be worth the expense.
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Of Stephen Russell
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 1:13 PM
To: ProFox Email List
Subject: Re: [NF] Sending Large Files...
What are the security concerns on either side when it is either on your side or
theirs?
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Kevin J Cully <kjcu...@cherokeega.com>
wrote:
>
Of
mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 12:19 PM
To: ProFox Email List
Subject: RE: [NF] Sending Large Files...
On 2017-05-10 08:31, Kevin J Cully wrote:
> I've been using this software for sending large video files between
> computers in my organization. It's nice b
I've been using this software for sending large video files between computers
in my organization. It's nice because you aren't relying on a service by
another company. Very fast at syncing files.
https://syncthing.net/
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From: ProFox
I would recommend opening a DigitalOcean account, running a PostgreSQL database
with either a NodeJS, or LEMP server. $5/month.
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From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Garrett Fitzgerald
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2017 7:22 AM
To: ProFox Email List
We had a file format that was coming from a mainframe where it was impossibly
long line, but the first two characters told the line type. We knew the line
wasn't more than 2000 characters long including the delimiters. We came up
with this approach and it works blazingly fast with VFP.
Step
I think if you count the Raspberry Pi (and compatibles) then I think it may
very well be the year of the Linux desktop. It might just be something
different than what we were thinking when we said "desktop"! :P
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From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf
I've used Bullzip at several companies. The price is right.
http://www.bullzip.com
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From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of
mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 12:43 PM
To: ProFox
Subject: Printing native VFP
A very sad day. I had the pleasure of getting to know Marcia and Andy over the
years at many Foxpro events. Marcia was always quick to laugh and crack a
joke. The love between Andy and Marcia was always apparent, especially when
they gently were kidding each other after a few drinks. I'll
I thought his main point was "don't bother scaring yourself, if you're not
going to do anything about it." As Ted Roche always says "Security is a
process". If you find a reasonable security hole, fix it reasonably. I leave
it up to you all to determine what is 'reasonable'.
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How about actively testing your systems with penetration testing?
https://www.kali.org/
When being offensive is a good thing!
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From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Dave Crozier
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 4:19 AM
To: ProFox Email List
I hadn't seen anyone mention this, but this class library may be helpful. Greg
Greene was attempting to manipulate XLSX files without the need for Excel at
all.
https://vfpx.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=XLSXWorkbook=Home
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From: ProFox
I'm going to chime in for Xojo ... again. I find it's really fun to develop
in. I'm using it at my new job working with my county government. The Xojo web
application that I built for them is "invaluable" for them to accomplish their
job in the Building Department.
Here's my check list:
-
I've been using RAdmin with a client and it has been very reliable. You do
need to set up port forwarding with the router.
With TeamViewer you need someone on the other end to tell you what the password
is each time you connect. RAdmin allows for remote connection at any time as
long as the
Remember not to plug in any USB 2.x devices into a shared USB 3.0 controller
because all devices will then slow to the USB 2.x speed.
Example: If you plug in a mouse beside the SSD External HD, you've just slowed
down the speed of the HD.
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From: ProFox
Every night? I've gone years without reindexing DBF tables. Perhaps I'm weird
but if the network and server are in a good, healthy shape then I think that
the CDXs can be left alone under a moderate load.
-Kevin
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From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On
I've done some work with Codebook, but by far I've done the most work with the
West-Wind Web Connection framework. I've even worked some of the classes into
my desktop applications. Light weight framework that just clicked with the way
I thought.
I've had many many clients buy that framework
riday Poll
(while dl'ing MS Flash Patch))
On 2016-10-28 10:24, Kevin J Cully wrote:
X DBFs - I have a client that insisted I use DBFs for his desktop and
Web-Connection site. It's run almost flawlessly since 2008 with the exception
of the 'memo field bloat' issue. That's caught me a couple of
X PostgreSQL - CULLYTechs system runs on PostgreSQL for years now without a
hiccup. Big fan.
X DBFs - I have a client that insisted I use DBFs for his desktop and
Web-Connection site. It's run almost flawlessly since 2008 with the exception
of the 'memo field bloat' issue. That's caught me a
You may want to look at a device such as this:
https://amzn.com/B00TF9MCXU
It would sit between your cable box and your TV to record the stream from the
HDMI cable. I haven't tried this but was considering this for our users
group(s). I could record any presentation (Windows / Mac / Linux )
When I walk into a store, and prices aren't listed on the products ... I know
I'm out of my comfort zone.
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From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Darren
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 10:09 AM
To: profox@leafe.com
Subject: RE: [NF] Looking for
Sweet. Thanks Tracy.
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From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 3:26 PM
To: profox@leafe.com
Subject: RE: Flat file to Excelbut it's got more than 255 columns!
0
You can
Thank you for the help with that class Christof. I've converted it to be used
in Xojo as well.
Is there a way to do calculations into a cell in the export? Example: To put
the formula "=SUM(D2:D10)" into a cell so Excel evaluates the expression?
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From: ProFox
Thinking outside of the box...
Don't use the Excel automation. Convert the flat file into an XML string, and
spit that out into a file named "MyFile.xls" and then have Excel open that.
It'll be wicked fast. Excel will load the XML as if it was an Excel
spreadsheet.
I think Christof had a
Not a silly question.
Some background: We have to archive documents for various lengths of time. For
a murder case, it's basically forever. When searching for a file from 2007,
the file wasn't valid. Not a problem in this case in that they still had the
hard copy of the file so they
The thought was to keep an MD5 of each file (or similar), and if that changes
then trigger the actual validation. First run would be intense, but most files
don't change much. Perhaps ever.
It's funny you mention LibreOffice, because a suggestion I received was to use
the command line tool
I work in a Windows Network environment. We're interested in purchasing or
building a system that does document validation on our documents across our
servers. We're needing a system that goes through our servers and file systems,
logging directories of documents, performing a hash on the file
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