The Universal Thread Personality of the Year announced
The Universal Thread Personality of the Year is a recognition for the effort given by individuals on the Universal Thread. This relates to the recognition of the effort which took place during the year which could be in regards to various aspects that anyone from the community would judge valid for such a recognition. I take additional chance to congratulate Sergey Berezniker, Cetin Basoz and Borislav Borissov as the Universal Thread Personality of the Year 2005 in Visual FoxPro. (http://www.universalthread.com/Personality.asp)
XSource for Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP1 is released
As promised earlier, Microsoft has released the download for XSource for Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP1 in the beginning of January. XSource.zip contains the source code to all Xbase components that are part of VFP. The updated XSource.zip file was not included in the SP1 download, and the posted download complements it. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0D1C3EC6-FFA2-4237-A0FA-8DEE4C62557D&displaylang=en)
Pre-Conference and Post-Conference at DevTeach 2006
The DevTeach conference announced of Pre-Conference and Post-Conference workshops. Additional hours of training are available for those who wish to get the maximum of DevTeach. Jim Duffy and Rod Paddock are teaming up to deliver training workshops sessions covering all fundamental aspects of the .NET platform. Markus Egger is presenting on .NET for VFP Developers. Scott Bellware presents a session on Test-Driven Development that will introduce you to the fundamentals of test-driven development practices and development methodology and show how integrate these principles into your projects. This session is also repeated in Post-Conference workshop. (http://www.devteach.com/PreConference.asp) The Post-Conference workshop will also include an introduction on how to install, configure, administer, and develop components for deployment in the Microsoft SharePoint environment, that will be provided by Jim Duffy and Rod Paddock. (http://www.devteach.com/PostConference.asp). You also can get a discount for the DevTeach 2006 if you are a member of one of the registered VFP user groups.
Visual FoxPro continues to gain points at TIOBE index
Visual FoxPro is still at 20th place in the TIOBE Programming Community index that gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages and it gaining additional points. (http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm)
Stonefield releases Stonefield Query Version 3.0
The highly anticipated release of Stonefield Query Version 3.0 is now available at (http://www.stonefieldquery.com/wc.dll?QDFProcess~MakeForm~&file=devedition&source=Version%203.0&mid=ch/jz) It has many improvements over the previous version. You can try it with your data, using a free 30-day fully functional trial version.
