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24/02/2000 12:01:36
Michael Dougherty
Progressive Business Publications
Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00333443
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00336830
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>I doubt if the AppDev training will teach you which documentation is considered "bare minimum." If you document your project correctly, and follow some of the standards that professional developers follow, your boss can either maintain the app himself, or hire a consultant to maintain it. Regardless, I don't think anyone's videos are going to replace the worth of good, sound project artifacts

Documentation isn't the problem. My boss has never worked with the VFP language. He uses FP2.6 and i know it overwhelms him to even see the form designer and know the difference between a property and a method. He didn't take more than 2 minutes of convincing to want to get the 14 CD training set. We both know the only way to learn is to use VFP. The idea of purchasing the CD's is that every other member of the IS staff can learn it to. (our fulfillment package might change from FP2.6 tables to a proprietary table with an ODBC interface = we need new tools)

You're right though, good documentation is vital to code maintenance - whether someone else is doing it, or you're looking back 6 months later.
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