This step-by-step guide leads developers through the entire process of developing custom software beyond simply cutting code. Covering the other 90 percent of software development, this guide is ideal for the software developer who is comfortable with the technical aspects of developing an application and wants to improve the rest of the process. Topics include marketing, sales, specifications, price quotes, testing, installation, tracking bugs, hiring personnel, and getting paid. The processes and procedures explained in this book will prepare developers in small to mid-size shops for more than just writing software in a specific language—it will turn their organization into a complete, fully integrated MIS operation. This replaces 096550932X.

The Software Developer's Guide

Computers & Technology

Whil Hentzen

Programming

Hentzenwerke Publishing

You own the domain, and as a professional, your email should come from there, not from some free online email service that makes people ask, "Are they still in business?" This book shows you how to use Google's excellent email system as your UI, your backup and your spam filter, available on all your devices, while still having email come from your domain. More than one domain? No problem! More than one user and/or mailbox? Solutions inside!

Send and Receive Your Domain Email with Gmail

That's true, there is no Visual FoxPro "10". The last version of VFP released by Microsoft was 9.0, in 2004. Two Service Packs and a couple of hot fixes were released later, and a community portal for extending VFP was opened around the same time. Microsoft support for Visual FoxPro was officially discontinued in January of 2015. However, there are thousands, no, tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of VFP apps still running, and will continue to run for years. Unfortunately, public perception of VFP's demise has led to a lack of investment by Fox developers in VFP, which then further reinforces said public perception. What many people don't realize is that despite the discontinuation of support from MSFT, there is a rich VFP ecosystem very much alive and well. This book provides the most comprehensive examination of the Fox world. Written by VFP's first Lifetime Achievement Award winner, there is no better resource for your VFP apps for the next ten years.

Hard To Kill: What's New in Visual FoxPro "10"

Hentzenwerke Publishing Inc

Software is not developed alone. At the very least, you've got users that you'll want to show the goods off to. And you may have testers, co-developers, sub-contractors, bosses, venture capitalists, and maybe a screenwriter or two in Hollywood that you'll want on board as well. OK, maybe not that last one.
 And they're all likely not gathered in your office all day long. So how do you collaborate with all of these folks?
 Enter the wiki.
 A wiki is a program that resides on a Web site which allows visitors to edit the pages. Changes made to the pages are tracked through a version control system where users can see what older versions of the pages looked like and who made the changes. It's a wonderful tool for collaborating on the creation of documents as well as an excellent repository for knowledge acquired by a group of people.
 And it's one of those tools that, once you include it in your software developer tooklkit, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it. I've searched long and hard for a wiki that met my needs as an independent software developer, and DokuWiki is my choice.
 This book shows you how to set up and use DokuWiki, with the express purpose of setting up an infrastructure that's well suited for developer documentation.

DokuWiki: A Wiki For Software Developers

Webrad: Building Database Applications on the Web With Visual Foxpro and Web Connection

Harold Chattaway

Randy Pearson

Visual FoxPro has long been the perfect front end for client-server applications. Featuring a robust programming language, a full-featured IDE, and a powerful object model, rich client development has always been a joy. Inside, a native local data engine, integrated hooks into binding with remote data, and Rushmore technology make VFP your secret weapon when connecting to SQL back-ends. MySQL is the world's most popular open source SQL database, running on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh platforms. Version 5 incorporates "big-iron" features like stored procedures and transactions. These features, together with the royalty free runtime model of VFP and the open source licensing of MySQL make client-server applications built with these tools the most powerful and economical combination on the planet. And this book is the only one that shows you specifically how to install, configure, and connect MySQL and VFP, as well as build a variety of client-server user interfaces with VFP. Together with dozens of discussions of real world problems and potential solutions, you won't find a better guide to MySQL and VFP client-server development.

MySQL Client-Server Applications with Visual FoxPro

Networking & Cloud Computing

The .DBF file format has been a standard for desktop applications for over 30 years. Pretty much every data-oriented application can read and write to a .DBF file. Back in the day when the format was created, the days of 180 kb floppies, sometime later surpassed by 1.44 MB 3 1/2 inch disks, and, eventually those monster hard disks that held hundreds of or even a thousand megabytes, its 2 GB limit was not a concern. Even in the mid-2010s, the xBase family of applications are excellent tools for manipulating data. One common use is to import data from other formats, such as text files, and, once stored in a .DBF, slice and dice that data as desired. Over the past decade, though, it's become commonplace to run into data sets exceeding the 2 GB limit. This can happen due to accumulation of data over decades of use of an application or dumps from large SQL databases. Once such a data dump grows larger than two gigabytes, though, dealing with them with the Xbase tools becomes a problem, since they can't be directly imported into a DBF. What is needed is intermediate data storage that can import a raw text file of any size and then allow the user to slice and dice the data as needed. Enter SQLite. This book will show you how to use SQLite, a fast, free, high-quality database for such intermediate data storage.

Using SQLite to Bypass the 2 GB .DBF Filesize Limit

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