>I don't know if I'm the only one that feels this way, but sometimes when I do get creative with VFP, I mean REALLY creative, to solve a particlur problem, I'm not sure if the solution I have come up with would stand up against scrutiny from other developers. This is in part due to not really having anything to base it on. (Although having this forum has been extremely helpful in giving me an idea about good structure, etc.)

The idea behind writing an article is not necessarily to spit out
a ream of code that goes for scrutinity. It's about an idea of
solving a problem and getting the solution across so that it may
benefit others to learn from or even just to spark an idea.

The majority of articles I read are that way to me. I rarely look
very closely at the code but just at a few key pieces, then go
ahead and build my own sample or implementation based on that.

Whether its useful or not is judgement call, but if it solved
your problem it may solve it for others. It helps to bounce
it off a few others - and you certainly have to bounce it off
an editor anyway. They're usually pretty good at judging what
flies and what doesn't for their particular magazine.

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