fpRoom with KB & LB Part Uno

[Laura Brody]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:34:07 -0500, Walter Vaughan <wvaughan at steelerubber.com> wrote:

> Wow. What a meeting of the minds. Just about as good as it gets.
> Those of you sleepy heads missed alot even after midnight. I believe the Brody's signed off at 1:34 am.
>
	That sounds about right....

> Friendly observations (none of this is meant to hurt feelings)...
[...]
11. A few stragglers/old-timers "rediscovered" the "@" symbol
in fP edit syntax, and "not form" in processing. No matter
how good you think you are, there is always something you
can learn.
12. Nested CALL processing will come to pass.
13. Multi-dimensional arrays. My magic 8-ball says
"Don't count on it".
14. The recording of the meeting was over 20 meg of
wma file. (The "one hour" discussion turned into three before
it started to break up and the recording was stopped.)  I
suggest that after it is converted to mp3, that it will be
posted "as is" as well as be broken down  into 3 or 4 files
so that dial-up people will be able  to download it a chunk
at a time.

Even with all of that time, some questions didn't get answered
because another question got answered first, which prompted
the whole conversation to take a right turn.

One question was "what about fPDJ #6-8?"

The short answer is that we want to put these issues out
this year. I feel bad that the subscribers have had to
wait so long. Creating each issue takes an unbelievable
amount of time and effort from Ken and I. He does ALL of
the layout and writes an article. I write articles and
quicktips, get other people to write articles, create
zip and tar versions of all sample code, and manage
subscriptions. We both proof for stupidity (and STILL
manage to miss some!) and write the HTML for the website
pages.

We are both very proud of the issues we have created, but
the whole fPDJ project has been quite discouraging to us.
The paid subscription base never exceeded 150. The feedback
 from readers was non-existant. Financially, I would have
made more money by working at the local McDonald's. With
these cold facts in mind, we decided that issue #8 will
be the final issue. With that in mind, I think that it
would only be fair to get suggestions from you for
article topics to appear in the last three issues. Post
your requests here if you want comments from others.
E-mail me privately if you don't.

In an effort to fill the gaping hole of filePro
documenation (without tying ourselves to a schedule and
long term obligations) we have been thinking about the
possibility of creating short "how-to" books with generous
sample code, that cover a given topic in-depth, such as
"Selecting and Configuring printers", "Importing &
Exporting Data", "Header/Detail Programming", "Installing,
Upgrading and Moving fP", and "Writing Utilities and
Library Routines in fP". These books would have no hard
timetable for release. The PDFs would simply be available
for purchase and immediate download when we are done
writing them.
-- 
Laura Brody, Publisher of the filePro Developer's Journal
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