Feb. 27, 2024
West Wind Web Connection 7.40 is a maintenance update for this popular FoxPro Web development framework. Web Connection is a rich and mature tool...
Jan. 25, 2024
West Wind Technologies has released Markdown Monster 3.0 of its rich Markdown editor that makes it easy to create Markdown content with its many...
Jan. 24, 2024
West Wind Technologies has released Help Builder 5.38. Help Builder creates online and offline documentation with easy Markdown based content...
Nov. 13, 2023
West Wind Web Connection 7.35 is a maintenance update for this popular FoxPro Web development framework. Web Connection is a rich and mature tool...
Aug. 29, 2023
West Wind Technologies has released Markdown Monster 3.0. This release is a major update that brings many internal changes for better performance...
July 03, 2020
FoxPro's string speed is reasonably good for most operations. But one shortcoming is character by character parsing which can only be accomplished via the `SUBSTR()` command, which as it turns out is horribly slow when strings get large. In this post I describe the problem and offer a couple of solutions to get better character by character parsing speed for string iteration.