brian on February 27th, 2009

I was just looking through my server logs and noticed a google search for “VFP to Ruby”. Maybe a foxpro gem, now that would be cool.  I wish I had more time to devote to such things…
One of the strengths of Ruby is that it is extremely dynamic. You can actually change the definitions of [...]

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brian on January 9th, 2009

Recently, I’ve done a lot of work incorporating foxtrails applications with Wordpress. That’s a sweet combination. My favorite solution for integrating the two is to use Wordpress for the presentation layer and ajax calls to Foxtrails for the data. In the foxtrails view templates, I create json formatted data, making it really easy to use [...]

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brian on October 16th, 2008

I’ve been asked in the past why I chose to release Fox Trails to the public domain. I mean, why not sell it as a commercial product or at least ensure that it’s “protected” by an open-source licensing agreement?
Maybe I’m just a nice guy, maybe I haven’t imbibed any gpl kool-aid recently, or perhaps it’s [...]

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brian on October 16th, 2008

I attended a recent Guineu presentation at the Chicago FUDG meeting. The prospect of running Fox Trails from .Net without the need to use the COM Interop layer is very compelling.
This opens a number of alternatives as well, such as running Fox Trails from Linux or OS X servers running Apache and mono. Way cool.

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brian on September 27th, 2008

Ok, I’m answering the inevitable question. Guess I want to be a little proactive.
Q. Why isn’t this site written using FoxTrails?
The answer is really quite simple. You see, I use Mac OS X at home and run my website using OS X’s builtin Apache webserver. I don’t have a separate windows machine, and would need [...]

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