30 Sep
Monday, September 30, 2002
Monday at the FoxPro DevCon, and no sessions to give today. Had a great day, and made it to a session every slot, sometimes two or three.
Archive for September, 2002
29 Sep
Sunday, September 29, 2002
Sunday morning was spent presenting “Introduction to Visual FoxPro?,” a four-part, four-hour brain dump of everything I’ve learned in fifteen years of developing with Fox products. Pretty challenging session.
Spent the afternoon catching up with friends, beach-combing, and body surfing the really nice surf. Not a bad day.
28 Sep
Saturday, September 28, 2002
Spent the day travelling to Fort Lauderdale for the conference. While the travelling wasn’t too bad, there was a very frustrating moment. I spent an hour-and-a-half in the Delta check-in lines, and was then told I could not check my luggage. As a result, I was forced to surrender a precious pocket [...]
27 Sep
Friday, September 27, 2002
Microsoft opened up their “Office of the Future” exhibit and got this less than enthusiastic review in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
“One concept not addressed is the bugs, unnecessary or hidden features and overly complicated products Microsoft has already introduced into the market.”
26 Sep
Thursday, September 26, 2002
Fun meeting last night. A great exchange of opinions and views.
Fortune magazine is coming to the conclusion that “ It turns out that the Linux doubters were wrong.” Interesting to read in a mainline publication. And in the same issue, a second columnist concludes “Sure, corporations could save millions by replacing all [...]
25 Sep
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Wednesday. The FoxPro? group in Boston meets tonight, and I will be on a panel with former fellow employees Chad Gronbach and Andy Kelly. Should be fun.
22 Sep
Sunday, September 22, 2002
Had a great day, working on the windows in Steve’s bedroom, and cleaning out the garage. Watched “Monsters, Inc.” on DVD.
21 Sep
Saturday, September 21, 2002
Back home. Good to be home.
It’s the 38th week of the year, and Microsoft issues security bulletins numbered Fifty-One and Fifty-Two. It seems like Terminal Services is insecure, unless you own all the wires between terminal and server. So much for remote control of web servers over the Internet! And the [...]
