Rob Windsor's Weblog

Firehose Chats

Got ADD? Think that 10 minutes is way to much time to invest in a Grok Talk? Think that.... hey... I'm talkin' here... what, three freakin' sentences is too long????

OK. Firehose Chats: Short, Geeky, Here

P.S. Get some Red Bull or Mountain Dew in you before watching these things they go fast.

P. P. S. Up until a short time ago Mountain Dew didn't have caffeine here in Canada because the government would only allow dark pop (soda for those of you south of the border) to be caffeinated. Now they call it Mountain Dew Energy Drink so they can load it with insane amounts of stuff to get you wired. I don't know why I wrote this because you probably left after Geeky and Here...

PDC Underground

Looks like there's going to be another set of Grok Talks recorded by the Regional Directors at PDC05. For more information and to register check out PDC Underground.

xBase for .NET

I cut my developer teeth using Clipper and it still holds a special place in my heart. For those of you who feel the same way and have been waiting for the day you could use the xBase syntax in .NET, there are two products you may want to check out. There is CULE.NET, create by fellow Torontonian and Clipper illuminate Rod Da Silva, and there is Vulcan.NET created by... well... other people (no slam to the other people, I just don't know who they are). Anyway, if you long for ragged arrays, code blocks and switching indexes to sort your .NET dream may have come true.

Update:
It turns out the developers of  Vulcan.NET are from GrafX Software, the same people behind the inclusion of COMIX DBFCDX and FlexFile into Clipper. See the comments for more information.