Wednesday, January 16, 2008
FoxRockx: What's in a name
Last month, Rich Schummer blogged about a new FoxPro magazine called FoxRockx that will begin publishing this quarter. I thought I'd add a bit of trivia about where the name came from.
As you may know, FoxPro history has several tools that were enhancements to existing ones, and each tool added an X to the name, Genscrn became GenscrnX, GenMenu became GenMenuX, Builder became BuilderX. Even the community run VFPX on CodePlex uses this name ends in X concept.
But that's not where FoxRockx came from. It was a typo, an accident. While at the German DevCon in November, Rainer approached several speakers to discuss the idea of starting a new magazine. We were sitting in the lobby of the conference hotel, brainstorming names and I was typing them into a search engine to see what URLs were available. I meant to type FoxRocks, but hit the X by accident. Just about all of us agreed that it was the perfect name, considering the history of ending things in X.
Voila...a magazine title is born.
As you may know, FoxPro history has several tools that were enhancements to existing ones, and each tool added an X to the name, Genscrn became GenscrnX, GenMenu became GenMenuX, Builder became BuilderX. Even the community run VFPX on CodePlex uses this name ends in X concept.
But that's not where FoxRockx came from. It was a typo, an accident. While at the German DevCon in November, Rainer approached several speakers to discuss the idea of starting a new magazine. We were sitting in the lobby of the conference hotel, brainstorming names and I was typing them into a search engine to see what URLs were available. I meant to type FoxRocks, but hit the X by accident. Just about all of us agreed that it was the perfect name, considering the history of ending things in X.
Voila...a magazine title is born.
// posted by Craig Berntson @ 12:44:00 PM 
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