Fun Topics
It all started for fun and it rapidly turned out to be interesting to see how much movie titles could be created from Visual FoxPro related terminology. I guess some of my favorites are End of DAYS(), Deep SPACE(9), Being John Koziol and Message() in a Bottle.
John Koziol
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Much ADO About Nothing
Three Self-Joins and a Funeral
I Still Know What You Did Last Project
The Tier..Which? Project
The Year of Coding Dangerously
The X-Tools
Ordinal of the Kremlin --- One man's search for normalization in the USSR.
READ Storm Rising ---- Suspense thriller about reducing RDLEVEL.
The Hunt for READ Whereever --- The search for the foundation of a strange 2.6 app.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of DOM
Close Encounters of the Third Form --- Alien foreign keys.
Jaws -- No title change required. We know what that one is.
Nick Neklioudov
Raiders of the LostFocus
The 13th RowSourceType
Six Methods, Seven Properties
Clear and Present Dangling Reference
Saving Private Variable
Never Say USE AGAIN
As Good As It SHOWS GETS - The FP DOS story.
In The Name of the Form
Seven Years in VB (Horror movie. Rated "R")
Ed Rauh
The Valley of DLL's
Bob Tracy
Planet of The Apps
George Simon
The Sixth Service Pack
George Tasker
The tracks of my tiers
96 tiers (OK, so I'm stuck on the tier business< g >
Visual Basic Instinct
Close Encounters of the Third Normal Form Kind
There's No Business like .Show Business
Room with a Local View and its sequal
Room with a Remote View
Rear .WindowState
Steven Bennett
Debbie Does Data
Evan Pauley
A Paramaterized View To A Kill
BackStyle To The Future
The Blair Witch ProjectHook
Sittin' on the AfterDock of the Bay
OOP Dreams (documentary about two Fox 2.x developers attempting to learn VFP in three weeks)
and the series:
Star Wars: A NewObject Hope
Star Wars: The EditBox Strikes Back
Star Wars: Return of the JustDrive
Star Wars: The Phantom Record Menace
Mark McCasland
The Object of My Instanciation
Looking For Mr. Toolbar
101 PEMs
Inherit the Wind[ows]
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldWideWeb
The Texas CHRSAW() Massacre
Born FREAD()
Clint Eastwood - The Early Years:
The Good, The Bad and The Beta Exams
Fistfull of Transform[lyParm1, "@$"]
For a Few Transform[lyParm1, "@$"] More
Denis Chasse
End of DAYS() -- Arnold S. is in a battle with the devil to find the perfect class to process everything about dates.
.Bat Man -- Story of a guy that thought he could do anything with batch files
Bill Armbrecht
The Parent Trap
Craig Berntson
How about the Star Trek series:
The Wrath of Component Object Model
The Search for DockMethod
The Voyage Home Key
The Undiscovered RECCOUNT()
The Next Menu Generation
Deep SPACE(9)
The Final n-tier
Ken Weber
Bill and Ken's XML Adventure
Being John Koziol
The Fifth AElement()
American _Beautify
On a CLEAR Day()
A DEBUG's Life
LostFocus() in Space()
Shindler's ListBox
American Pi()
The Soundex() of Music
Message() in a Bottle
Sin() and Redemption
Mike Helland
What about Bof()?
Seek() and Destroy()
Gross Point() BLANK
FOR ZOOM the SET BELL tolls
Sign() OF the Time()
Doug Dodge
The Manchurian CANDIDATE()
PRIMARY Colors
J.Crescensio Flores
How about an Indiana Jones theme?
- Indiana Jones in the Temple of XML DOM
- Indiana Joins
David Stevenson
A quick stroll through my client's bookstores revealed these:
By John Grisham:
"A Timer to Kill"
"The Client-Server"
"The Firm Delivery-Date"
By Stanley Kubrick:
"Visual Studio 2001: A Disk-Space Odyssey"
The famous Atlanta novel by Margaret Mitchell:
"Gone With The Windows 3.1 compatability"
And for those who have to manage projects, teams of consultants, or do any hiring:
"Interview With the Vampire"
"Sophie's Bad Choice"
---About project deadlines and promises:
"Grim Fairy Tales"
"Pilgrim's Lack of Progress"
"Uncle Reamed-Us", or "PKZippedy-Do-Dot-com"
---and the one about the project being complete "real soon now":
"The Book of A Thousand All-nighters and A Night"
Garrett Fitzgerald
The .IDX-Files
Pitch RGB(0,0,0)
Eric Grover
Malcom ActiveX
AFIELDS() Of Dreams
The ForeColor Purple
Christof Lange
The Story of OS() with Me.ChellePfeiffer
Larry Miller
J. Michael Straczynski
Babylon C(5)
Robert Howard
Conan the Bar(barian)
Conan the Destroy(ER)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan the App Man
Stephen R. Donaldson
Lord Found()'s Bane
The ^ that Preserves
RGB(255,255,255) Gold Wielder
Mark Twain
A Connecticut Inkey() in King Arthur's Court
Tom Chrsaw(er)
Alex Wieder
9-1/2 Week(s)
On a CLEAR disk you can SEEK forever
Who frameworked Roger Rabbit?
Time() in a bottle
Fried RGB(0,255,0) Tomatoes
Livin' la vida LOCAL
Life is _BEAUTIFY
Michael Reynolds
Lord of the FILE('s')
Guess Who's COMing to Dinner?
The Andromeda STR()
The GOTOs Must be Crazy
HOME() Improvement
James Bond Films
Dr. NoDefault
A VIEW to a DELETE
RGB(249,213,9)Finger
Todd Sherman
The XML-Men
Rod Poujade
ON ESCAPE From Alcatraz
ON KEY Business
The RIGHT() STUFF()
GETFLDSTATE() and Main
TOTAL RECALL
Vlad Grynchyshyn
Behind the Grid
Grid Covering Team
Hack the Grid
The MTS Runner
The COM Site Story
Strange (ON) Error
Bugs-Hunting Story
Rick Borup
The foX-Files
A Very Brady SQL
The Mighty Docs
Austin Power Tools
Sylvain Demers
EVENT horizon
Enemy at the Bill Gates
Almost Famous (story of the highest days of Fox, by 20th Century FoxPro)
The ABS() (The Abyss)
The Grid's Cell
The Day VFP Stool Still
Dinosaur (a story about COBOL)
Escape From VB
Mad MAX()
TRIM() (Tron)
Analyse THIS
MVP - Most Valuable Primate (really, that's a real title!) :)
David Collins
"Frank"$string
The Wonderful World of RGB()
The App Art Meant
Delete *.* (The aXed-Files, a tragedy in DOSMONOCOLOR)
Undo the Dum-Dum Tree (a sequel where the anti-hero of Delete *.* gets salvation)
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