Thursday, March 13, 2003

FoxCentral RSS Code makes the first attempt at VFP 8 ... and falls back to VFP7. It seems that the Web Service support in VFP is not only accessed differently, it also works differently than its VFP7 counterpart. Plan on re-coding your Web Service calls: ffc\_webservices.vcx is no more, and the new VFP 8 IntelliSense script uses ffc\_ws3client.vcx. The good news is that you can use TRY... CATCH, the bad news is that you'll have to, while you iron out the bugs. While alpha tests on a development workstation worked fine, deploying to the production machine failed, presumably because of a dependency with new Web Service DLLs. Out of time for testing tonight; hope to get back to this over the weekend. 8:50:28 PM    comment []

Ahhh! The sound of silence.... Part of the process of rearranging the home office is moving a mini-tower system out to the server room (aka cellar) so that there are no more noisy machines in the office. Here's a machine I'll gladly check out: Hush ushers in silent PC [CNET News.com] 6:58:34 PM    comment []

Kling respond's to Doc's World of Ends - good points Klings's Korollaries. Suits and Geeks is Arnold Kling's latest, and a complement to World of Ends. Arnold lists Five Clues for Geeks: Intermediaries add value Property is not evil Computer animation is not a killer application Bashing Microsoft does not make you smart Markets are not exploitative Lots to talk about there. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 5:52:46 PM    comment []