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Richard will give us the tools we need
to dig out a greater share of its value.
Be. there or be square!
Foxbase +/Mac
L.A.
Fox
is a user group
for all
members of the Fox community-- not just those on the IBM side. Charles Williams, a local consultant who practices Foxbase
+
fMac, has joined our Steering Committee and will be taking an active role in the planning of our meetings and the setting of direction for the group. Charles has also agreed to present some of the applications he has developed for Foxbase+/Mac in an upcoming meeting. Since FoxPro owes much of its unique design to the work done by Fox Software on Foxbase
+
fMac
and since Foxbase +/Mac remains a showcase for design elements still in FoxPro’s future
presentations on the Mac product should be of interest even to those with no plans to develop on that platform.
For Those Who Were Techno-Bhtzed...
FoxPro is a powerful development tool, and somewhat programmer- oriented in spite of an incredibly rich array of tools for interactive work. For this reason the FoxPro group quite naturally attracts sophisticated programmers. Our May meeting unfolded at a pretty high technical level, which was altogether satisfactory to
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most who attended. Still, a few folks got left behind.
If you were one of them: let me just say, on behalf of the board, that we intend
not
to forget you. The Fox Software user community spans the enduser-to-programmer continuum
that’s the sort of products Foxbase and FoxPro are
and we hope to address the entire Fox community. We hope to do this not just because we think it’s a nice thing to do, but because we believe the diversity will benefit everyone: new users trying to take fuller advantage of the products; business people looking for professional help; consultants looking for clients; and professional developers looking for the technological cutting edge.
Easy For You to Say...
We not only have goals: we have a plan. It’s a simple plan, designed for evolution, and we’re open to suggestions. But a plan it is. And here it is:
We plan to design each meeting so that it has two distinct sections. The first section will emphasize inspirational and motivational presentations. No, I don’t mean that we will be urging you to enter the foreclosures market, or showing you how to make big money tracking down the owners of lost bank accounts for the state of California.
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What we’re looking for is more of a presentation
syle
than any particular kind of content. We want you developers to show us the applications you’ve built. Expose us to the business (educational? entertainment?) needs you’ve addressed using Foxbase and FoxPro. Vendor presentations, unless of highly technical add-on products, will probably go in this half of the meeting.
The second half of the meeting will be targeted explicitly for developers. This part of the meeting will focus on technical topics, and will include presentations of hair-raising code, and no-holds-barred question and answer sessions.
In some cases the presenter for both halves of the meeting maybe the same person
as will be the case in our June meeting featuring Richard Grossman. The first half ofthe meeting will explore ProDemo as an application. The second half will take it apart as a piece of sophisticated code.
I mentioned that a break will separate the first and second halves of the meeting. This break will be of healthy duration, and will be expressly designed to fa.ilitate the networking which for most of you will be the primary benefit of the group. See you there!
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Complete programs in FoxPro, Lotus 123, WordPerfect, dBase, desktop publishing, Autocad, and many other PC programs.
Call for free course catalog!
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Yellow Pages
[Free to L.A. Fox members.]
D-I-S-C (Discovery
Information
Systems
Company),
George
Dvorak (213) 539-2704. Ac
countmate, SBT modifications, custom LAN applications, hardware and technical support. Torrance
Charles Williams,
Macintosh Consultant, (213) 539-9439. Macintosh Expertise
+
Management
Expertise.
Foxbase+IMac applications.
Harbor
City.
Gay Dunn Graphic Design (213) 371-6035. Graphic
design and
desktop publishing. Newsletters, logos, brochures, and
ads.
Redondo Beach.
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Greg
Dunn Computer Consulting (213) 371-6035. DOS, dBaseffl,
and
FoxPro training; FoxPro
and Clipper
applications; Telemagic sales and support; demo diskette development. Redondo Beach.
KD Associates,
Kris
Dahlln, (213) 396-5632. FoxPro and generalPC consulting.
Legal and
barcode applications, legal time and billing package, contact
management package. Mar
Vista.
Unruh Consulting, Randy
Unruh (213) 390-8039.
FoxPro
and Clipper applications
consult
ing. Santa Monica.
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