The Professional Developer

October 1990

Volume 1 Issue 7

The Newsletter of the Dbase Language Professional Developers Group

The Valley View

by Charlie Rider

What did I Miss at the

September meeting???

Our meeting was kicked off by

Linda Rohrbough-Houser. Linda

and her husband have recently

developed a commercial product

(using Clipper) called

“FastTrack.” FastTrack is a really

wonderful user-friendly product

that allows the product user to

track just about anything/every-

thing under the sun.

Linda will be our kick-off

speaker for the next few months

with presentations on the trials

and tribulations of not only de-

veloping a Clipper product but

also presentations on when to

shoot the developing engineer

and other aspects of getting a

product to market without

spending “a whole bunch of

money” (which applies to most of

us since few of us are fortunate

enough to have an “angel” for

financial backing).

Linda likes a lot of active audi-

ence participation in her presen-

tations, so we’ll just see how this

series develops. Linda is also the

acknowledged expert on the

effective use of the modem and

makes presentations and writes

columns for a number of local

user groups.

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L.A. Fox

President’s Report

by Chuck Williams

At our September general

meeting, Greg Dunn handed

over the gavel for leadership of

our group. The scope and

direction of a new position has

forced him to reduce his partici-

pation in LA Fox. Greg has

devoted an enormous amount of

time and energy in getting this

group started.

Monthly Meetings

After several changes in meeting

place and date we are now on a

stable track, with an excellent

meeting place provided by our

SCE friends, and a resolve to

hold our meetings regularly on

the third Tuesday of each month.

Speaking for the board and all

LA Fox members, I sincerely

thank Greg for his effort, wish

him well in his new position, and

hope that he will continue to

participate in our future meet-

ings.

Group Interaction

Our September meeting was an

experiment with an informal

meeting structure. With no

formal presentations or demos,

the intent was to support group

discussion and interaction. Kris

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by John M Kinney, Member of

the Board, DLaP Users Group

The September meeting fea-

tured Dave Lowrey of Sophco

discussing their FORCE com-

piler. Our “language” series

continues this month with Bill

Ramos, a senior software de-

signer from Ashton-Tate, plan-

ning to have dBASE IV, Version

1.1 strut its stuff.

Next month, it’ll be Wordtech’s

turn. Since the third Wednesday

in November happens to be the

day before Thanksgiving this

year. We will most likely be

moving the meeting (for Novem-

ber only) to the following week.

Final plans will be in next

month’s newsletter.

Board Meeting

The Sunday after the DLaP,

Valley, and Fox meetings,

October 21, we will having an

important DLaP board meeting.

It will most likely be in Harbor

City at the home of new board

member Chuck Williams. All

with ideas for the group’s direc-

tion in the next 6 months are

welcome to attend. Call Chuck

or another board member for

directions and to let us know you

are coming.

John Kinney

Return of Ashton-Tate

by John Kinney

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PCX Programmer Toolkit,

Version 3.5

Reviewed by Bob Balocca

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Tools of the Trade.

by Charlie Rider

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