On 3 Mag, 20:46, "Al Acker" <a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi Hfufna,
>
> Nice to hear from you again.... =A0Alaska started out well but they
could
> never keep up with their promises and time schedules.... I started
pointin=
g
> that out and they didn't like that too much. <g>
Eh, eh! I remember well...Mark++, isn't it?
I'm just installing VULCAN - uhm, it's more than an hour right now
that I'm going through prerequisites downloads.
It's really kind of Microsoft smelling...
Well I'll move this Vulcan stuff to the right newsgroup.
***
Back to clipper, just test DBFree (www.dbfree.org): I've been working
side to side with the guys that produce it. If you need to make
something for the web, and you know clipper, there is nothing around
easier than that.
I've been tryng to do something with Recital xBase (www.recital.com)
for weeks, but could not make even work the damned IIS! (I hate all
those settings and permissions - and definetely I hate ASP!!!)
Believe me: I only know a bit of HTML and barely cut and paste
javascripts, but with DBFree I've been able to put up a small
application (small in size but doing a great job for my users) just
in hours.
And best of all, while developing I had it working on the web
immediately. And for free.
Shure, I use its big brother (DBaseWeb) at work, (that is other stuff
- manual is 720 pages!) so probably I was facilitated, but even for
beginners it's is very very Clipper-like. Thus clean, linear and
simple.
Next thing I will do is a second try to xBscript. But for my limited
time (and patience) everything requiring me to put my hands on things
not strictly related with my business (delivering working solutions in
record time) is not attractive at all.
I get paid to make things easier to the people that depends on me, not
to spend days setting up a W2K3 Server myself and getting crazy with
it just to give a try to a developement tool...
Cheers
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