Chris Sainty

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All Quiet

So things have been a bit quiet on here the last few months. I will hide behind the classic excuse of being very busy with the launch of a new website for one of our clients.

If you would like to check it out head over to www.ht.com.au.

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STREXTRACT()

To stem the code overload of the last two posts I am going to mention one of my favourite VFP functions.

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Phonetics with Double Metaphone and VFP

Something that has been floating around in my "to-do" list for quite some time is to write a class for phonetic keyword matching in a fox database. The idea is for it to be a step down from PhDbase (link) without losing the functionality I personally find most useful, phonetic matching.

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Scripted Text Generation

The first piece of code I would like to post is one of my favourites, in that geeky kind of way. A quick little routine to take a file that mixes static text with foxpro expressions and scripting then turns it into a foxpro procedure.

We use this code to process HTML and XML template files used by our websites into efficient compiled foxpro code. I made mention of this code as part of my presentation at OzFox Lite in March 2006. So here it is!

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An Introduction

Hi All, A quick first post to add some content onto my blog so I can start trying out a few of the options.

My name is Chris Sainty, I currently work for Quids Technology (link) in Newcastle, Australia. My recent focus has been on moving our web products onto West Wind Web Connection (link).

Hopefully I will get some real content on here soon, so sign up to theĀ feed (link) and stay tuned.