Hey Ted,
Thanks for your feedback. And, considering the LAST comment you made
below - I figured I might as well send this response back to the ProFox
list...
On 11/12/2012 11:56 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
One of the best programmers I ever worked with was one of the world's
leading authorities on
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012, at 07:02 PM, Kurt @ VR-FX wrote:
However, is there any other Ammo that I can use in my arguments to
convince the guy that its STILL a Viable Tech???
COBOL has been around since, what, 1960-something, and In 1997, the
Gartner Group reported that 80% of the world's
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Kurt @ VR-FX v...@optonline.net wrote:
Hey Mike,
Thanks for the input. I shall try and consider SQL as a backend for the
system. Especially since I know so many people here on this mailing list
has done Exactly that - using SQL. However, to be truthful - I
On Nov 12, 2012, at 8:16 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbou...@fastmail.fm wrote:
COBOL has been around since, what, 1960-something, and In 1997, the
Gartner Group reported that 80% of the world's business ran on COBOL
with over 200 billion lines of code in existence and with an estimated 5
billion
I'd say MySQL or PostgreSQL would sell better than Access as both of those
are certainly not going away any time soon...better bet with those over
Access for a multitude of reasons!
I said Access for the front end, not the DB backend I don't like
it because I'm used to and spoiled by VFP
On 11/12/2012 11:56 AM, M Jarvis wrote:
I'd say MySQL or PostgreSQL would sell better than Access as both of those
are certainly not going away any time soon...better bet with those over
Access for a multitude of reasons!
I said Access for the front end, not the DB backend I don't like
Hi Kurt
Also, I've done the Visual type screen design - where I drop one or
more DBF's into the Env. on a Form - which allows me to easily do
DragDrop to layout the screen design. I suspect that with an SQL
backend - you can't do that at all...
I developed two forms: one that converts my
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Paul Hill paulroberth...@gmail.com wrote:
On 10 November 2012 20:13, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote:
It's STABLE! - unlike DotNet that is constantly churning the right way
to
do things VFP has established Best Practices. Your investment isn't
going
On 11/10/2012 4:13 PM, Kurt @ VR-FX wrote:
Hey Mike,
Thanks for the input. I shall try and consider SQL as a backend for the
system. Especially since I know so many people here on this mailing list
has done Exactly that - using SQL. However, to be truthful - I have very
little experience with
On 11/10/2012 4:33 PM, M Jarvis wrote:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:59 AM, MB Software Solutions, LLC Good
reasons, but I'd suggest you use a different backend, like MySQL
instead of native DBFs. That'll suit you better in the longer run, imo,
especially if they live on the web.
Well... if
Well - that argument has Once Again Reared its UGLY head today for me.
Here I was, talking to a buddy of mine - and he knows these people that
needed a database system built for some kind of shipping container
tracking. My buddy had asked me a number of times over the past 6 months
about
1/ PC/desktop itself is old tech, better pick a simple and cheap one rather
than an expensive one
2/ M$ is an ailing giant
3/ no other desktop tech around - all web
4/ when it comes to web, GUI only matters; as HTML/CSS/JS are standard, all
techs are alike
5/ VFP license + dev time is cheaper
On 11/10/2012 2:13 PM, Thierry Nivelet wrote:
1/ PC/desktop itself is old tech, better pick a simple and cheap one rather
than an expensive one
2/ M$ is an ailing giant
3/ no other desktop tech around - all web
4/ when it comes to web, GUI only matters; as HTML/CSS/JS are standard, all
techs
VFP is old tech -- it's true!
It's MATURE! - there's not a lot of stuff you need that's not already in
there.
It's STABLE! - unlike DotNet that is constantly churning the right way to
do things VFP has established Best Practices. Your investment isn't going
to get broken by a patch or a new
On 10 November 2012 20:13, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote:
VFP is old tech -- it's true!
It's MATURE! - there's not a lot of stuff you need that's not already in
there.
It's STABLE! - unlike DotNet that is constantly churning the right way to
do things VFP has established Best
Hey Thierry,
Thank you very much for your input. I shall definitely consider some of
what you wrote as some of my arguments for doing the project in VFP!
-K-
On 11/10/2012 2:13 PM, Thierry Nivelet wrote:
1/ PC/desktop itself is old tech, better pick a simple and cheap one rather
than an
Hey Mike,
Thanks for the input. I shall try and consider SQL as a backend for the
system. Especially since I know so many people here on this mailing list
has done Exactly that - using SQL. However, to be truthful - I have very
little experience with doing something like that. Also, I've done
Hey Ted - thanks SO Much for all that info - and I will definitely read
that link you gave at the bottom of your posting. Its also making me
think that I may try and have my buddy put me in touch with his
associates by E-mail, and then I can outline the arguments to this guy
that way - as it
Frankly, Mike, DBFs living n a web server are as reliable as any other DB tech
Thierry Nivelet
http://foxincloud.com/
Give your VFP app a second life in the cloud
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