What Is Your Source Code IQ?

In the past 40 years I have inherited a few dozen major FoxPro/Visual FoxPro applications and a few hundred minor ones. My recommendations are based upon real world experiences and in some cases, real-world disasters. If you are the owner of a Visual FoxPro custom program, I hope you will carefully consider learning from my experiences.

Source code: What is it? Do I own it?

You, as a business owner, may feel that this is too technical. But I can assure you that if you ever lose your source code, you will wish that you had taken a few minutes to understand what I am about to share with you. Few people know what source code is, but understanding it can be critical to the health of your company. Failure to pay attention to your source code can have very serious financial consequences, ranging from a few thousand dollars to well over $100,000. I can tell you story after story about this. Read an example, on our blog.

You should be able to answer “yes” to all the questions posed in our short video.

The top three problems business owners face with source code:

Programmer keeps the latest source code on his laptop.
Programmer claims ownership of part of or all of the source code.
Programmer makes some changes to the source code on his laptop and some on your server.

How you can be sure that you always have the latest source code?

Call 248.683.4182 or visit https://erwcp.com/contact-us/ to set up a Zoom call to discuss your source code situation.