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Calvin shows Excel's Gradient bars in VFP

Calvin's post shows how to write gradient bars in your grid. The actual execution is a bit wonky if you're not running on Windows XP but you can still see the results here. Note: this reminded me a little of Mike Brachman showing colored browse windows in FoxPro DOS way back when - except that the colors move with the form because they are directly attached to its HWND. Nonetheless, it's a cool example of what's possible when you grab some features from some DLLs (in this case OLEACC.DLL and GDIPLUS).
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VFPConversion's has a newer look and feel

I may have missed this earlier but the VFP Conversion site has been updated and it makes finding things a lot easier. Granted, Dan and Kevin look out of place with all of those haircut-challenged people but you can choose to read articles or blogs. What's particularly cool though is you can build your own RSS feed, filtering on developers, managers or just articles. Welcome to VFPConversion.com
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Name Twins: Would the real Andrew MacNeill please stand up?

Markus Egger sent me an email over the weekend, noting " this is scary..." Wrong spelling apart - what I found most interesting is that there is an Andrew McNeil who works as a senior product consultant for CIN Com in Australia with a comment like "While legacy thinking may be a problem, 'herd thinking' may be an even greater contributor to problems in IT organizations," McNeil says. "This thinking leads to a silver bullet mentality, which causes technologies to be over-hyped then subsequently [creates] a backlash." But of course, the first search result was from Mr. McNeil who is the director of Institute of Alcohol Studies, who "thinks a major factor in high consumption among young people is the affordability of alcohol," (note only the Cached version of the site shows this reference anymore) and follows on with all kinds of funny comments like "Andrew, if you have the cojones to set me straight" It reminds me of ...
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Presenting Gates vs Jobs: A study in contrasts

Great post comparing Steve Jobs and Bill Gates presentation styles - one that I saw mirrored at the Visual Studio launch. Considering that Microsoft Press publishes Cliff Atkinson's Beyond Bullet Point , it's amazing that Microsoft still allows people to present this way. Yes, it's hard - especially if you're presenting online because you can't see their faces but then again, I don't imagine that when they're on stage in front of 2000 developers, Bill or Steve are looking at anyone's faces either.
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Craig Bailey: What coffee were you drinking?

A few of us were chatting around the coffee machine at work the other day discussing what would happen if Google bought Visual FoxPro from Microsoft. Now that's an interesting conversation...for one, GoogleBase would likely be super fast and incredibly cool. Microsoft is on a " disruptive " streak these days - how could FoxPro be made more disruptive? Well, Craig's started that one off. I wonder what wwGoogle would look like? I'm intrigued by what Rainer said on the FoxShow about what's coming for the FoxExtend platform. In fact, I even had a dream last night (bad sign when you're dreaming about work!) where I was describing ways that FoxPro could really take advantage of the new RSS and SSE services. Unfortunately, the details were in the part I can't recall. Is it hard to make a product as old as FoxPro disruptive? I don't think so - look at what Rick Strahl did with West-Wind. I remember back in 1994 seeing someone in Germany...
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