Andrew MacNeill - AKSEL Solutions

Thanks Eric for showing me Woody's string.format function. It reminds me of Steve Black's MsgSvc implementation ( which could also be used with a Text type).  I remember when I first saw String.Format in code and I had to take a step back and look again at it. Once you're used to it, it makes wording so much easier. I've seen code using it for building complex web URLs among other purposes. But look at the date on the post -2010. How many other great functions have been lost inside the MSDN library of VFP posts. It might be great to revisit all of these in separate posts. ---- String.Format for Visual FoxPro // SaltyBlog [Originally Published in FoxRockX , September 2010] ---- Shared via my feedly reader

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/08/windows_10_privacy_problems_here_s_how_bad_they_are_and_how_to_plug_them.single.html David Auerbach  discusses some Windows 10 privacy settings and their implications. " Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary." " In other words, Microsoft won't treat your local data with any more privacy than it treats your data on its servers and may upload your local data to its servers arbitrarily" I did a quick install on a VM choosing the Express settings. When I fully deploy this on a real workstation, I will likely choose to wade through all of the individual pages, as David recommends. Of course, losing one's privacy is nothing new - it's happening all over the place (despite Santa Ana's police force'...

Rick Strahl just posted a fantastic article going through the rise of Javascript frameworks . It's only part 1 so there will be more. For those still coding their javascript manually but starting a new project, Rick provides great pros and cons for choosing a framework. I was surprised that Wakanda wasn't listed - but it seems to be far more than just a framework, more of a full blown application tool and stack. And then I saw this great graphic which captures it to a T

I wasn't aware of this useful feature until just recently. It's been in Visual Studio  for a while but if you've never come across it, you wouldn't know it was there. A client application had a few distinct solutions: one for a web app, a separate desktop app, web services and finally a database solution. There were times when I was in one of the solutions and what I really needed to do was find any instance of a particular call - in short, searching the contents of every file.  (for VFP users, I would typically use Code References for this and just do a broad search. In fact, that's what I have done on occasion, but no more!) Ctrl+F in VS brings up the Find dialog. By default, it's in Quick Find mode, so it will only search the current document. This can be expanded to "Find in Files", at which point in time, you can identify where you want Visual Studio to "Look in". The default list includes Current Document, All Documents,...