The ultimate Web support for finger pointing!
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This Web site all started because Rick Schummer was having a tough Friday with several fingers getting pointed towards him in his professional, personal, and volunteer life. Over on Twitter he posted how people could get in line and how he was handing out numbers for those that wanted to blame him for something.
At the same time he needed to do some research on hosting data-driven Web technology with a MySQL backend.
In the perfect storm he came up with the brilliant idea to register BlameItOnRick.com and put up a Web site where people can post blame to Rick. The database was designed in XCase, the HTML and Active Server Pages (yes classic ASP for now) are put together in Microsoft Expression Web, and the Cascading Style Sheet slapped together using TopStyle. The initial Web site complete with MySQL backend was put together in a couple of hours. All done as an experiment.
The site is hosted as a subdomain on RickSchummer.com on Godaddy.com. First time Rick has done anything with a subdomain. Rick's only experience with MySQL is a couple of hours of playing with it a year ago when his son built a Linux box for him (dead soon after creation). Thanks to the script created via XCase the creation of the database was a snap. The data is maintained using PhpMyAdmin provided by GoDaddy as part of the hosting, and the terrific SQLYog Enterprise tool from Webyog Softworks Pvt. Ltd.
Special thanks to Jody Meyer for providing me the logo.
The future holds some additional learning opportunities.
The front end Web site will be re-developed using ASP.NET 3.5 or 4.0
BlameIt BackOffice Application
Back end desktop application to maintain the data using
Visual FoxPro and remote data access using the MySQL ODBC driver.
Application created using Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2 with the latest hotfixes, and
uses all three remote data techniques (remote views, SQL Passthrough, and
CursorAdapters) to access data on the Web server. (completed)
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Create a conference and user group session from his experience during this experiment. (completed)
"VFP and MySQL: Case Study for Remote Data" presented at Southwest Fox 2009 in Mesa, AZ - October 2009
"Remote Data (MySQL) with VFP" presented at German FoxPro DevCon 2009 in Frankfurt, Germany - November 2009
"VFP and MySQL: Case Study for Remote Data" presented at Detroit Area Fox User Group in Detroit, MI - February 2010
All enhancement request and bug reports can be sent to or you can always blame Rick for the problem or not having the idea sooner.
Please note this Web site is purely developed for fun. Although the information surrounding the blame is recorded, nothing will happen other than the recording of the blame and pushing it to Rick. Rick sincerely hopes you feel better by pushing the blame to him, and that any guilt associated with the blame is released from you forever.
v1.6.13