Improve visual foxpro or else...

For those who thought Ms was not listening to the foxpro community, John koziol
really makes the case.

Not everything will get in but all of the actual input from the
community is seen- not just by the fox team but also those who are
seeing how popular foxpro really is. Great post, john!

Comments

Anonymous said…

Thanks, Andrew

We really want customer feedback on VFP. It's a good thing to centralize that feedback, hence the blog post and link.

To be clear, of course we can't actually act on every post. There are good ideas and really stinky bad ideas.

Also, to be clear, it wasn't an "Improve or Else" post. The post (and link) is not intended to demand feedback, nor is it going to act as a lightening rod to gauge customers interest in VFP for MS.

OTOH, we are listening and listening closely. We are intensively customer-driven; maybe more so than other teams at MS. I'm not disparaging anyone, but - as you know - the Fox community has always been close-knit with MS folks closely aligned with the community. Other teams at MS are new to this idea but rapidly coming in line with the win-win that relationship represents.

Great blog, Andrew, and thanks.

John Koziol

June 19, 2004 at 5:04 AM

Blogs and RSS come to Microsoft.com

MS has just introduced their portal and it's pretty comprehensive. Nothing quite like learning that some people use AIM instead of MSN messenger, or that there really may be a need for supporting 4 monitors ( Cyrus Complains ) However, it's really a great sign that MS is serious about supporting the blogging community which seems to have um, exploded in size in the past year. Blogs and RSS come to Microsoft.com

Programmers vs. Developers vs. Architects

I received an email this morning from Brandon Savage 's newsletter. Brandon's a PHP guru (works at Mozilla) but his newsletter and books have some great overall perspectives for developers of all languages. However, this last one (What's the difference between developers and architects?) kind of rubs me the wrong way. Either that, or I've just missed the natural inflation of job descriptions. (maybe, it's like the change in terminology between Garbage man and Waste Engineer or Secretary and Office Administrator) So maybe it's just me - but I think there's still a big difference between Programmer, Developer and then of course, architect. The key thing here is that every role has a different perspective and every one of those perspectives has value. The original MSF create roles like Product Manager, Program Manager, Developer, Tester, etc - so every concept may pigeon hole people into different roles. But the statements Brandon makes are often distinction

FoxInCloud Stats

FoxInCloud sent this link a while back about their statistics regarding visits to their site: http://foxincloud.com/blog/2017/12/27/VFP-community-lessons-from-foxincloud-site.html What's interesting here is the breakdown of people. Yes, I think it's understandable that the Fox community is getting older. Another factor is the growth of the mobile and web environments taking over development. These environments really do push people towards the newer non-SQL or free SQL/hosted environments but more towards hosted storage options like Amazon and Google. A tool like FoxInCloud that helps MOVE existing applications to the cloud inherently competes with those environments. But FoxInCloud also allows developers to extend their application further by giving them a starting point using Javascript and the basic CSS (such as Bootstrap). If you're not rebuilding your application from scratch, it's certainly a great step forward. FoxPro VFP

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