On 06/22/2011 04:37 PM, Rick Schummer wrote:
>>> We are planning on a long term conversion, with our goal being to have the
>>> entire application suite converted by the
> 2015.<<
>
> While it is always great to get a customer with a long-term new project, I no
> longer look at them as a complete
> blessing.
>
> By 2015 Microsoft will introduce at least two or three technologies and have
> deprecated those and three others. I only
> wish I was making this stuff up. Unfortunately anything you pick today will
> be different by 2015 as four years is an
> eternity in our industry. The tools and languages you pick today will either
> be too mature to keep people's interest, or
> on the way to being too mature to keep their interest. I have talked with
> many .NET developers are already getting bored
> and many of them are looking toward Ruby as the new cool thing of late. Will
> Ruby keep their interest until 2015? I
> don't know. Developers had a tendency toward having ADD.
>
> Interestingly, recent public reports shows Microsoft has embraced JavaScript
> and HTML5 as their new development platform
> of choice for Windows 8. I am personally shocked by this decision since they
> have no control over either, and anyone who
> develops with them can do it without the need for Windows for development or
> deployment. Most developers are not going
> to program to Internet Explorer extensions these days when IE has lost the
> lead in market share. And lots of developers
> with .NET experience are feeling a *new* stinging sensation of abandonment
> and are questioning their loyalty. So what
> advantage does Microsoft have with this new platform?
>
> Sounds like somebody in the Windows division at Microsoft shot the company in
> the foot without consulting the Developer
> division.
>
> We live in interesting times.
>
> Rick
> White Light Computing, Inc.
>
> www.whitelightcomputing.com
> www.swfox.net
> www.rickschummer.com
>
>
>
>
I have been doing this for over 35 years and have an opinion I will
express here. Everyone participating in this thread has good advice.
Without looking back I would focus on what Rick & Ed have to offer. As
a developer, your tools are the most important decision you make. When
everyone was excited about IBM and Lotus 123 and Dbase III a friend of
mine gave me FoxPro 2.0. I have made a very good living with FoxPro.
Today everyone is talking about all kinds of things. I have limited my
scope and am currently very successful.
My plan is to develop VFP 9 applications for the desktop using Visual
Maxframe Professional. I can put together an awesome app in a couple of
days and actually deliver it! Someone once told me to ship applications
while everyone else is developing them.
My long term goal is to use Python for everything and use the Dabo
framework for robust applications. I currently shell out to Python to
do a lot of stuff that VFP can't do. I will admit that there are some
cool things that I am not sure I can do in Dabo at this point.
I tell my customers "I don't do web apps" I can't afford the security
issues and all of my customers are small businesses and they are very
happy with my approach. I don't know if they will ever solve the
Internet security issues. Until then, we are shipping safe applications
for small businesses.
So for me the choice of tools is important but it is also important to
decide what my target market is.
Summary
VFP9 with VMP & Python instead of third party stuff
Eventually I will continue to use VFP9 as there is no reason for me
to change with my customers
I have customers that use Mac and a customer that is in Mexico.
Dabo and Python is my choice.
My only advise is to be happy with the job!!!!!!!!!!!
Jeff
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Jeff Johnson
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(623) 582-0323
www.san-dc.com
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