Your conspiracy theory seems a little bit flawed. The same people who killed all the other VFP rags also are killing UT Mag? What are you smoking today?

There are people that write about programming.

There are people who read what those who write about programming write.

And there are people that write programs.

Martin wrote a "programmers" article. My hunch is that Martin is still delivering (or at least supporting) vfp applications.

The problem we find ourselves in now is that many VFP developers (as Baird once said) are doing 85% grid solutions (click and snip gui development). If you, the silver bearded acedemics of our niched profession, don't help those that deliver those "85% grid gui's" learn a bit more about OOP development and PRG solutions, then those poor "types" will never be able to migrate to an environment like .NOT.

If they're doing VFP - better they learn the desciplines of OOP with a platform they somewhat understand.

My bet is that some of those shops with VFP staff that praised the "conversion" hype that the "conversion" shops have recently been preaching will loose those VFP positions to the .NOT conversion shops. I put on my business cap - i think - and I assert that's what i would do if I was their boss!

It may have been helpful in at least one case that I know of where one of the developers stated that VFP was 85% grid to at least look at improving the VFP service of the app in question. Just as VFP makes it easy to write quality solutions - VFP [also] makes it too easy to write bad software. Perhaps helping those "grid" heads re-design a better VFP app would have been of more benefit to them than suckering them into a VFP to .NOT conversion scam.

I don't write articles . I do write case studies, proposals, user guides and I write a lot of code (and I still have a long way to go). But I don't get hired because of what I write - I get hired because I will read (and read) technical documents and specifications (not software stuff - but business rules stuff) and can suckup to the "master level" geeks for technical guidance (I am eternally grateful for those more disciplined than I that put up with my muck and help me sort my issues:). So I may be in a completely different market than most of us.

But, if Baird's assertion is correct (that 85% of VFP is grids in a page frame), then its up to you guys to move them to a more "classic" development approach - because all you are doing - when you pitch and sell VFP to.NOT conversions - is costing them [their] jobs.

DOT-NOT is a discipline on it's own and the promise of easy and understandable conversion to those in the 85 percentile group is a sham. Help them be better programmers - don't help yourselves to their jobs.

Nuff said!
BTW:
The filetostr of an html page does not transfer the href images but it does recognize a style-sheet. How come?