The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

January 1994

LA Fox

continued from previous page If you are interested in pursuing Visual Basic, there is an active user group in Orange County. The leader is John Coffey who can be reached at (714) 760-3794. They meet once a month at the Microsoft office in Irvine. That group has also been conducting training classes once a month on a Saturday morning. The trainer is Paul Sherrif, a well known application developer and trainer.

At any rate we had a very entertaining meeting and we hope Dan will return as our speaker for further discussions of Visual Basic or any other topic he would like to talk about.

Other Topics

The latest book in the Pinnacle “Pros Talk Fox” series is out. The topic is OLE and DDE and the author is Randy Brown. I haven’t read it yet but my previous experience with Randy’s writing and speaking lead me to recommend it on general principles.

Our own Greg Dunn has an article in the January edition of FoxPro Advisor. The title is “Desnippetizing Screens for Faster Development”. I think Greg has shared those ideas with us at our earlier meetings but lets have a round of applause for another successful publication by one of our members.

If you read the January DataBased Advisor magazine you will think that Mohsen Moazami has something on the editor. Not only is his FoxPro Mac article published but his comments show up in several other articles.

If you are looking for FoxPro information, you should look into the International Database Interchange conference to be held near Palm Springs in April. The format and agenda sounds very similar to the FoxPro

Developers Conference but the scope includes Access and Visual Basic. I have a brochure with details or you can call 1-800-

438-6720.

As you can tell from the way our membership and distribution processes are working, we could use some help on the User Group Board of Directors. Anyone interested should call me at (310) 539-9439. Previous experience and skill are not requirements — interest and willingness to devote some hours are.

Work Opportunities

Microsoft is looking for experienced application developers to work for Microsoft Consulting Services in the Santa Monica, Orange County, and Phoenix offices. They want Visual Basic or Access skills and would also like SQL Server or Sybase experience. To follow up, call Susan Goshen at Microsoft in Redmond at (206) 635-1981.

Bill Anderson has a contact who is looking for a full time FoxPro Windows developer to design and build an application. Call Francis Lambert at 310260-3 100 or talk to Bill at the user meeting.

Next Meeting

February 15 will be another special occasion

— Lisa Slater will talk about Rapid Application development using her tools and videotape series published by Virtual Firmware — and Bill House will continue our broadening with his devcon presentation on Object Oriented Programming.

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