Microsoft put the MSDN "Foxpro General" Forum to archived status.

[Olaf Doschke]

This must have happened a few days back as I posted last on the 12th of July.

I see Foxite has a few people active. Universal thread has become

https://www.levelextreme.com/

already a few years ago and I don't know much about the Spanish or French Foxpro Community.

I remembered there was and still is a Foxpro Podcast

http://www.thefoxshow.com/,

episodes are not very frequent, though. So besides all that I think the only other regular resource is Githubs roof VFPX project and some of its child projects. For example, while peeking into Foxite now I saw Cesar asking something for the Foxypreviewer project. Then there still is the FoxPro Wiki, but also very inactive.

I wonder whether it would make sense to pile everything in one place and have a bit more rest-activity, but would there even be interest in that?
Who's active anywhere else and what other resources do you still make use of?

Bye, Olaf.

Olaf Doschke Software Engineering

https://www.doschke.name

 

[TamarGranor]

Ah, I wondered what happened to the Microsoft forum. I tried to post there last week and couldn't. Then totally forgot.

Beyond the places you mentioned (and UT/LevelExtreme and Foxite are the busiest of those), StackOverflow has a couple of FoxPro tags. I think Ed Leafe's ProFox listserv is still out there, too.

Tamar

 

[Olaf Doschke]

I just found the link on your vfp resource page

http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/vfp-resources.html,

but it's broken.
Maybe it's under a new URL, because the old downloads link also is broken, but I find he made an advanced section of searchable downloads at

https://leafe.com/dls,

it's worth browsing by category there.
For example to specifically find the VFP category at

https://leafe.com/download_list

Ed Leafe has looked into Python early on and I see dabo is on his Github, I just know this by name, haven't used it, but it might be something to go for.

He got it right, I remember I still thought Ruby would become the successor of web development way back when there still was hype about Ruby on Rails and he already developed in Python.
Ruby seemed to me to have something very similar to macro substitution and would, therefore, be easy to adjust to for Fox developers. Also with a simple enough ActiveRecord ORM That compares a bit to working on a "current record" principle. But also wOOdy put a bet on Python instead of Ruby.

I like and use Python a lot for simple but mostly hobby math(s) scripts, as it has the arbitrary large integer feature and other very mathematical libraries, but never got into Flask or other web development frameworks or any UI with Python. Anyway, thanks for reminding me about Ed, he's done a great deal with his contributions still available at above downloads link.

Bye, Olaf.

Olaf Doschke Software Engineering

https://www.doschke.name

 

[TamarGranor]

Thanks. I'll have to find some time to check that resources page one of these days.

There are actually two Profox lists, one just tech and the other allowing more general discussion. These seem to let you sign up:

https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox

http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech