>While I understand that may be a simplification (I am sure that it is VERY hard to put a quality magazine together!) these people are doing it! If they can it would seem to be logical to assume that others can also if they have the will and/or the mind to do it. One thing is certian... the VFP community is FULL of very talented people.... so why the gap?

The reason I find magazines like VBPJ (and especially MSDN Magazine) valuable is that they show the programming world outside of VFP... Windows and Internet issues that apply to all languages. The samples might be in VB or C++, but once you learn how to translate, most of the time the ideas and strategies can be applied with VFP code.

Probably less than 50% of the articles in VBPJ deal with VB directly, the others are things like "How to use WMI", "SQL Server Strategies" and "COM+ Applications". This is stuff we can all use- who cares what language it's in.

The VFP community has its share of talented programmers, to be sure, but compared with the sheer volume of the VB community, the number of writers needed to consistently put together a magazine with the volume, quality and frequency of VBPJ is just not realistic. Not to mention that fact that the VFP writing talent splits time between FPA, FoxTalk, Code, and VFUG.

IMO, unless a few of our most talented authors wuit their daytime jobs, or a bunch of our most talented programmers devote much more time to authoring, the VFP community simply doesn't have the talent pool to put out a magazine like VBPJ. I think comparing FPA and VBPJ and blaming the difference completely on Advisor is foolish. (Not they're anywhere close to perfect. :-))