{"id":75,"date":"2010-10-17T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/lisa\/post\/2010\/10\/17\/Legacy-is-a-good-thing.aspx"},"modified":"2010-10-17T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T17:41:00","slug":"legacy-is-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/2010\/10\/17\/legacy-is-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"“Legacy” is a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well.<\/p>\n

We are just back from two days as guests of the SouthWest Fox<\/a> conference in Arizona, where C and I had a really nice time. Officially I went to become one of two recipients of an award<\/a> but actually it was nice to (finally) have had a chance to experience the heartwarming atmosphere of that particular conference and community. <\/p>\n

Kudos to Rick<\/a> (and congrats to him as the other awardee!), Doug<\/a> and Tamar<\/a> for their energy and passion, for both Fox-the-development-platform and Fox-the-people, in organizing this and carrying it through.<\/p>\n

To try to thank the community right back, I did a short presentation, written in Fox and “performed” in Flash, which you can see here MemoriesAndContributions.swf (15.66 mb)<\/a> . The idea was to bring together some faces and names, from various Fox eras and venues, whom we should all be thanking.  <\/p>\n

I had a lot of fun writing it in the two “bookend” environments of my FoxPro career: FoxPro DOS — still a speed champ and still fun to work in — and Visual FoxPro 9 SP2 — a real labour of love for both C and me. <\/p>\n

One thing I know for sure: my life would have been a lot less interesting without FoxPro in it.  And I bet a lot of you might say the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Also bright-eyed and red-headed<\/h3>\n

And now for some more credit where credit is also due…<\/p>\n

If you watch that Flash presentation, it’s about 3 and a half min, a bit jerky because it’s timed to match Bonnie Raitt’s great rendition of “I Will Not Be Broken”. <\/p>\n

I don’t have rights to post the song, of course, so you’ll have to use your imagination for how it worked together. You can read the lyrics to that song here<\/a>, and watch Bonnie perform it here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n

Better yet, click the album cover on the right and buy the damned thing.<\/p>\n

Us old gals have to stick together… but that is no sacrifice. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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