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Hangfire
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ui-editor
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WorkOS
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FoxPro: Interview with Wayne Ratliff
My Internet claim to fame was writing a program to get people off of FoxPro to PostgreSQL: https://github.com/kstrauser/pgdbf
FoxPro was nifty in many ways, but nightmarish outside the “single person running the app with the database on their local hard drive” setup. The moment you tried to put the database files on a file share (which is how you used it as a network DB), it was a world of locking pain. And a fun fact: the client libraries were single threaded to the point that you could only run one query at a time per machine. If you had 2 apps running at once, only one of them could be querying at any given time.
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Show HN: Write universally accessible SQL, not library-specific ORM wrapper APIs
Sigh, if only. OK, so the rest of the story was that the original app was written in Visual FoxPro. I was hired to build a web frontend for it. Well, turns out 1) there is, or at least was, no native VFP client for Unix, and 2) the Windows client was single threaded per host, so you couldn't even farm the connectivity out to a Windows process. After struggling with this for a while -- a cluster of Win XP hosts running a single-threaded VFP client and serving results to a Linux webserver via XMLRPC, as was the custom at the time -- I finally said "screw this, let's brute force it." That turned into https://github.com/kstrauser/pgdbf, which is an app to convert a VFP table into a PostgreSQL table. We had it running on a cron job, which worked fine because the website was read-only and it was the VFP app that was actually writing to the tables. It was alright to have up to a few hours of latency between the VFP view of the data and the PostgreSQL view of it.
When the company later committed to rewriting the VFP app in a sane language, they wrote it to run directly against PostgreSQL. That was quite a few years after I'd started there, though.
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Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993)
By orders of magnitude, my most popular open source release was a project to help people migrate from FoxPro to PostgreSQL: https://github.com/kstrauser/pgdbf
FoxPro was cool for desktop apps, but couldn’t make the leap to networked clients, where “networked” was more than “has access to the file share where the database files live”.
In the early 2000s I was hired to write a website that published reports from data stored in a Visual FoxPro database. A not-so-fun fact I learned: the VFP database libraries are single-threaded at the OS level. That is, you couldn’t run more than one query on the same machine at the same time, even in different processes. One would block until another finished. In a fit a panic and madness, I ended up writing an XMLRPC service (“which was the style at the time”) in Python, deploying it to multiple old Windows XP desktops we had laying around, and writing a database adapter for the web server that would send queries to those servers round-robin. Need more parallelism? Add another Windows XP box running my janky little service. It was awful, but it let us ship the project.
Later I wrote pgdbf so that we could run a cron job that would copy all our data out of FoxPro into PostgreSQL so that I could code against a real multi-user database that was vastly better in every way. By accident, I released it at a time when the world was wondering how they were going to migrate from FoxPro to something else. Turns out VFP was wildly popular in South America, and pgdbf turned out to be wildly popular there too, which let to me getting lots of email in Spanish and Portuguese and offers to come talk at user groups. I turned those down because what was I gonna say, “yeah, it was painful for me, too. Anyway, here you go and good luck!”?
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kstrauser/pgdbf is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of pgdbf is M4.
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