>I heard a discussion recently about people wondering if FoxTalk was really worth the money. I think it would be nice if they would catch up with the times and move it the Internet and maybe drop the price some.
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FoxTalk IS on the internet.

Actually... FoxTalk is about the same price as FoxAdvisor with the CD, since FoxTalk comes with dl and bonus articles you can access on the Internet. (Granted it is not as 'paper thick' as Advisor, but there are also alot less ADS in it. Also, every month there are usually one or more 'extended articles' that you get access to online that they didn't have room to print in the newsletter.)

You can also subscribe to an Electronic only subscription to FoxTalk which not only gives you access to the year you subscribed, but ALL back issues that are online too... Which is from 95 or so on. (Which is why it is actually $20 MORE per year than the print edition, becuase you are basically getting the next year PLUS access to the last 5 years with a great search engine.)

I found the price to be very reasonable. All you need is to use ONE idea or CLASS from ONE article all year and it will pay you back. How long do you think it took Doug Hennig to write his Report Objects classes, or the pure VFP calandar class that was in there. How long do you think Mike Levy spent researching and testing Queries for his Self-Joins article. How long do you think it took Mike Sherman and John Hosier to come up with an awesome real word OLE Automation method with a pool manager they just give you?

Do you think you could have hired one of those guys to do that for you for $150?

You just 'get' all of the above. It takes you 5 minutes to read the article and perhaps an hour to implment what they are doing, since you usually get all the code.

Remember:

A smart man learns from his mistakes.

A VERY smart man learns from the mistakes of others!

BOb