At 13:39 2013-02-04, Paul McNett p...@ulmcnett.com wrote:
[snip]
The main thing that I've stuck to doing, even though it takes more
time upfront, is
hand-coding my GUI instead of using any kind of visual designer.
This has gotten
easier and still doesn't seem very tedious, as long as I divide
gofish
Its brill
Al
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Oh, my. I am not the only one to hand-code my GUI.
I like having my entire app in code. It makes it much easier
to search for things.
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On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox)
foxh...@information-architecture.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Paul McNett p...@ulmcnett.com wrote:
Gee, I found Eclipse to be incredibly daunting, too. Too much so for me to
bother with. I thought it was just another
On 2/4/13 12:15 PM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) wrote:
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Paul McNett p...@ulmcnett.com wrote:
Eclipse or Visual
Studio extremely difficult to use, and my productivity would tank.
Gee, I found Eclipse to be incredibly daunting, too. Too much so for me to
bother
On 2/4/13 12:25 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
Add another vote there! I used Eclipse for a couple of Ruby in Rails
projects, and found it slow and difficult to maintain. Having come from the
tightly-integrated IDE of FoxPro, I thought this would be a gentler
introduction into FOSS tools, but found it
On 2/4/2013 4:58 PM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) wrote:
There we part ways a bit. Being still a bit typing-impaired, I find a tool
which auto-fills variable/function/object names helps me a lot. Especially
since I subscribe to
LongDescriptiveFunctionNames(WhichHelp,TheMushySpace,BetweenMyEars)
On Feb 4, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox)
foxh...@information-architecture.com wrote:
These days, a terminal, a browser and a ViM session are all I need.
There we part ways a bit. Being still a bit typing-impaired, I find a tool
which auto-fills variable/function/object names
On Feb 4, 2013, at 3:39 PM, Paul McNett p...@ulmcnett.com wrote:
I suspect there are probably some nice things I'm missing by not using an
IDE, but I
haven't tried an IDE yet that didn't annoy me in some way. Like you, I think
this is
some deficiency in me, not in the IDE, since so many
On 2/4/13 2:11 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
These days, a terminal, a browser and a ViM session are all I need.
There we part ways a bit. Being still a bit typing-impaired, I find a tool
which auto-fills variable/function/object names helps me a lot. Especially
since I subscribe to
On Feb 4, 2013, at 4:29 PM, Paul McNett p...@ulmcnett.com wrote:
Do you use the built-in autocomplete or something else?
Built-in - what more could you need? ;-)
-- Ed Leafe
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On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Ed Leafe ed.le...@rackspace.com wrote:
Just in case you didn't know, vim has auto-completion, too. I
couldn't work very well without it.
And support for multiple windows, multiple buffers, a built-in scripting
language, a rich community of plugins that
On 2/4/13 2:30 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
Do you use the built-in autocomplete or something else?
Built-in - what more could you need? ;-)
Well unless I'm missing something the built-in one has no idea what namespace
context
we are in when suggesting completions, and it doesn't complete
On Feb 4, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Paul McNett p...@ulmcnett.com wrote:
Well unless I'm missing something the built-in one has no idea what namespace
context
we are in when suggesting completions, and it doesn't complete method
arguments, etc.
Ah, I see what you mean. No, I don't miss any
Yeah, I agree: simple auto-complete is enough.
Now that I have completely hijacked this thread: My apologies.
Ken
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Ed Leafe ed.le...@rackspace.com wrote:
On Feb 4, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Paul McNett p...@ulmcnett.com wrote:
Well unless I'm missing something the
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013, at 09:41 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
It has probably improved over time:
this was in
probably 2002.
It's no Visual Studio, but it's pretty good and very flexible, although
it does have an insanely complicated preferences system.
Anyway - a seasoned shell and text editor
that had a database
actually built into the O/S.
Happy days!
Dave
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Too bad Dr Dave
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013, at 02:30 PM, Dave Crozier wrote:
Yep,
SCO xenix was a cool O/S especially when you had a host of dumb terminals
attached serially.
I remember brief scrapes with FoxPro on that, in the early 90s. Arcane
even then.
Also much fun with Concurrent DOS / MultiUser DOS / DR
were the days..
Bob Lee
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Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 9:31 AM
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Subject: RE: [NF] Fox on other OS, (was Fast scanner)
Yep,
SCO xenix was a cool O/S especially
On 2/1/2013 11:23 AM, Bob Lee wrote:
Dbman was my favorite on SCO, (another dbase/fox clone) multi platform..
I could develop in dos, deploy multi user in sco xenix . same code.. almost
any os of the time (late 80s and 90') one could run dbman on it..
On 2/1/2013 12:34 PM, Stephen Russell wrote:
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:16 AM, MB Software Solutions, LLC
mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
On 2/1/2013 11:23 AM, Bob Lee wrote:
Dbman was my favorite on SCO, (another dbase/fox clone) multi platform..
I could develop in dos,
Such a great achievement, and so ahead of its time. Did this trend
discontinue simply because M$ wanted to dominate the OS world and
hence not want their softwares to run on non-Windows machines?
More because M$ dominated the OS world, and cross-platform
development is difficult. If you want
On 2/1/13 2:36 PM, Jerry Wolper wrote:
More because M$ dominated the OS world, and cross-platform
development is difficult.
Cross-platform development doesn't need to be difficult. All the apps I've
developed
in the past 8 years have run on Linux, Mac, and Windows. Even if they only ever
Too bad Dr Dave is not still in charge of Fox. The guy was a genius. He
would have it running on everything so we would not be stuck with the M$
crap.
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