We are finally onto a topic I know something about ;-)
I have been in love with basketball since practically before I can remember. There was always a ball in my hand (quiet) from about the age of 6. The sign of spring was the first day I could go outside and shoot. Think early March. Think mud and freezing hands.
I was never as good as I wanted to be. But pretty good.
The foundations of my game were playing tenacious enough defense to annoy the other guy into mistakes and being a good shooter. Sounds like your theory of national defense ;-)
.NET, I love it. My goal remains the same to have .NET work by the end of the year.
PS -- Watch Derrick Rose play. He's only 20 and his game is still emerging (which is scary). He can't play NBA defense yet and makes too many turnovers, as he concedes himself. But when he explodes to the basket it's exhilarating. I would compare him to a young Brett Favre or Bobby Orr.
>I'm a Final Four/NBA playoffs basketball fan. i have to admit I don't really understand the game other than it is cool to watch. I do appreciate the Cavs and am reading more this year than before. I have read accounts of the Bulls / Celtics series but only saw one game. Will probably watch the rest now that the Cavs are vacationing.
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>Yeah, I'm really warming up to the .NET stuff. I like the IDE a lot. Needs a lot of RAD tools, but they are certainly there for the building ( I'm wrestling with designer smart-tags right now) But I was never very impressed with VFP out of the box and if Mike and Toni hadn't done what they did with VFE I'm sure I'd have left Foxpro ten years ago.
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>I think the thing I'm enjoying the most is I'm back to what I got into all this for to begin with - learning massive amounts of cool new stuff every day. If I spend 40 hours in a week on VFP I might increase my knowledge by 1% a month. If I spend a day on .NET I double my knowledge <g> I also like the idea that I can google for answers and there are 20 websites that I know of more active than UT was 5 years ago and Amazon has new .NET books every time I look. I need the stimulation <s>
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>>>>>For those VFPer sitting on the .NET fence, I just discovered this guy's blog and thought I'd share it here. I'm not trying to stir up any trouble, but, its interesting stuff and some of what he says had me laughing out loud.
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http://dotbloat.blogspot.com/>>>>
>>>>Perfect thing to top a good day. For the first time for the last ten years, I took the Labor Day off - barbecue, beer etc - and this was the spiritual layered cake to make it complete.
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>>>>Even if 80% of what he says is false, the remaining 20% is enough to not touch dot net with a stool-dipped pole. Can't subclass visually? Have to write a constructor for every class? Wow.
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>>>Like anything else, you take the crunchy with the smooth. Changing inheritance is much easier in .NET, partial classes add functionality unknown in VFP, and the VS IDE - whatever its shortcomings - make VFP 9 look like FPD 2.0. I think a lot of his points are well taken, and I'm sure if the same resources had been put into VFP it would be a very different story. But VS and .NET, however imperfect, can certainly be made to do some pretty amazing tricks I certainly can't do with VFP/VFE.
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>>You've drunk the Kool Aid ;-)
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>>What are your thoughts on the Cavs at this point? They made short work of the Pistons. As you might imagine, I am caught up like most of Chicago in the Bulls vs. Celtics series. Epic is the word that comes to mind. Four of the six games have gone into overtime, last night's Bulls win going to triple OT. Different emerging stars step onto the stage every game. Game 7 tomorrow night. It's hard not to see the Cavs vs. Lakers looming ahead but this has been more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
