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April 2005 - Posts

Friday, April 22, 2005 4:40 PM

Third Party application does work as a COM+ application

A few months ago, I reported a problem that a customer was having with a particular 3 rd party product that seemed not to work with Visual FoxPro. It was a COM object that could be instantiated via CreateObject. I was quite surprised that Windows guru
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Thursday, April 14, 2005 3:32 PM

Very Old Program

I was doing some spring cleaning and came across a computer printout of a program I wrote in August 1974, or about 31 years ago! That brings back a lot of memories. Coincidentally, a couple coworkers were discussing the CaSing of computer languages. What
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 1:43 PM

Floating Point calculations: comparing with zero

I was asked about floating point calculations. In particular, I can write code like this: x= 3.4 y= 10 Result=x*y ?Result,Result= 34 IF Result= 34 ?"This code will execute if result = 34" ENDIF *Output is 34.0 .T. If you add 3 zeros to x (change x to
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Friday, April 01, 2005 11:30 AM

April Fool's Pranks

In the spirit of April Fool’s Day, I was talking to my daughter about some pranks that took place in my college days. I mentioned the abundance of liquid nitrogen and what happens to a flower immersed in it for a few seconds: it becomes very brittle and
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