Just some notes
After 20 years of
Foxbase+, Foxpro for DOS, Foxpro for Windows and Visual Foxpro devlopement, it's time to move on. The fact that Microsoft pulled the plug on Foxpro and the problems scaling Foxpro applications to thousands and thousands of users motivated me to look for an alternative.
Having used Microsoft tools for so long, the logical thing to do seemed to go to .Net but I think that .Net isn't nearly as productive as Foxpro when it comes to complex CRM and ERP like database applications. So then what... Java? Php? (after all, moving future development towards the web seems like the only right choice). All failed to meet my productivity criteria, all but one... Servoy.
Here are some notes I made along the learning curve...
Oktober 2008:Foxpro to Servoy.
When we started the conversion of our Foxpro data to Servoy, we tried to do it 'the Servoy way' using a JDBC driver to pull the fox data in. Our problem was however that the tables were so big that the JDBC driver choked on it.
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June 2008:SQL in Servoy.
I've been used to write SQL statements embeded within Foxpro code for so long that I take it for granted.
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May 2008:Foxpro vs, Javascript.
OK so now I dug a bit deeper in Servoy, I realized that I was Googeling for Javascript stringmanipulation references a lot. There are plenty of resources out there but none of them targeted towards Foxpro programmers.
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January 2008:Foxpro -> Servoy.
So what was the first thing I tried to do after installing Servoy?
Right, pulling my Foxpro data in!
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