John,

Too much time on my hands??? It took all of a minute to verify the fact that you are not cited even once on MSDN.

Face it: You have one article and no (zero) citations on MSDN. Shame on you for self-glossing yourself like that.

Thank you for your critique of my contributions. I will try to do better.

Having said that I promise you I will never claim to have citations to my work that don't exist or received accolades that were never proffered, or play the "publishing" card as if the VFP world is anything like publishing in scientific communities where a publication implies expert knowledge and peer review. That's heinous bullshit.

You stink, dude.


**--** Steve


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>You have a lot of time on your hands...< s >..
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>Notice that I said ONE of hte most cited VFP resources on MSDN. How many people refer to the ADO Whitepaper? A lot: here and the Wiki < bg >. And many have found it to be a valuable resource. Today, I would agree that it is a resoruce that needs to be updated.It is only 1 article (55 pages) - but I think it was a significant contribution.
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>Since you brought this into controversy, I did a search on your name. There were three hits. Light topics that don't have the substantive content of my 1 article and quite frankly, based on the reviews, not well received or perceived as all that useful by the readership.
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>I am sure you had a point to prove, I am not sure what it was...You should consider dropping your line in a different pond as this one does not have bite...< s >...
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>The point is that Mr. Campos comes from the POV that I don't know what I am talking about when it comes to publishing. The fact is, publishers rarely technically qualify people that write books. I know this becuase I have been asked to write books on topics and subjects with which I have no practical experience. My internal moral compass does not allow me to perpetuate the fraud that continually goes on. IMO, if you don't have practical experience and/or worked with something on a substantive basis, you have no business writing books on the topic. I agree with Rick that writing articles is a great way to learn and in that domain, the same rule IMO does not apply.
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>The bottom line, I understand how the publishing business works. Having been involved in 4 projects with other people and 1 project by myself more than qualifies me as somebody with at the very least - an "informed" opinion...
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>Toodles...