At 04:18 PM 11/6/2007 -0500, Ted Roche wrote: > > mastering it as best as a person can master as buggy/incomplete a > > development environment/runtime as VFP. > >Ouch! I usually try not to slam the door on my way out, not just >because it's likely to hit me in the a$$, but 'cause I hate having to >meekly crawl back in at some later date.
Heh, I seem to recall Derek was doing a lot of stuff with "kiosk" type systems. I.e. dumbed down PC equipment. A lot of his bugs were in regards to video issues. MS never did move VFP's 'visual' components over to use the "windows built-in" components, so VFP always had quirks in that area. And I imagine kiosk hardware is anything but standard with updated video drivers etc. I think he also had problems with VFP's concept of "Views", etc. But the problem there is he was doing things the MS-recommended way - which is actually a backwards step with loss of control where VFP is concerned. IMO. I imagine he'll hit problems in .Net pretty soon to as they actually get into real work. At my main client's site there are about 20 developers pounding away at .Net and not a day goes by where several of them spend a few hours or more trying to work around some crash or other unexpected result of their .Net code. <shrug> Grass always looks greener .... and sounds greener with constant harping in the ears. -Charlie _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
