Ted Roche’s weblog

Friday, 31 May, 2002

30 days hath September,… May is one of those months I can never remember…

Thursday, 30 May, 2002

Just another working day. Wrote code. Did analysis. Ate lunch. Ho. Hum.

Oh, and got invited to speak at Great Lakes Great Database Workshop 2002. That’s a high point.

Wednesday, 29 May, 2002

Got the mail notification working for the TWiki working after a couple of flubbed attempts. The example “someone@your.company” kept throwing errors, and even a < n o p > didn’t keep it from being parsed. Finally withdrew them from all of the Webs. Forgot the Blog, of course, since it didn’t show [...]

Tuesday, 28 May, 2002

Struggled until late into the evening with a combobox data binding problem. The combobox would appear with no value when the form requeried, but when clicked on would display the correct selected value. Problem was, the combo was supposed to be disabled on previously entered records. Finally added a WAIT to the [...]

Monday, 27 May, 2002

Happy Memorial Day.

Sunday, 26 May, 2002

An interesting story of using small claims court to try to collect on overdue writer’s payments: http://www.mediabistro.com/content/archives/02/01/10/
Spent the day cleaning out the cellar. An ugly job, but rewarding is the outcome.

SlashDot sent me off on an interesting trail through the web starting at http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=227. Worthy of more study. Short form: Lessig good, [...]

Saturday, 25 May, 2002

Happy Memorial Day weekend.

FoxPro? got one of those all-too-rare mentions on the Microsoft site, in MSDN’s Dr. GUI column. Check it out here.

This site has a great article on creating Cascading Style Sheets that will adequately print the onscreen text. Good stuff. And check out the links from there…

Friday, 24 May, 2002

Tortured poor Apollo this morning. I had it all set up as a web server, less content, but not yet exposed to the internet. However, I was also setting it up as a SourceOffSite server, but I do not yet have enough licenses for the entire staff. So, I turned it back [...]

Thursday, 23 May, 2002

Working away. Got to skim another chapter of The Wiki Way, work on client projects, and follow up on some of the neat stuff going on in the early-evening meetings at the Greater Boston FoxPro User Group. The late meeting, btw, was one of my topics, where I showed Net Resources: The [...]

Wednesday, 22 May, 2002

On the road today, client work, a little shopping, and a Fox user group meeting tonight. Got “The Wiki Way” and read a chapter along the way, too. Good book.