The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

January 1994

LA Fox

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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 meet-

ing 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 experi-

ence 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 Devel-

opment”. 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 arti-

cles.

If you are looking for FoxPro information,

you should look into the International Data-

base 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 member-

ship 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 appli-

cation 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 expe-

rience. 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 Applica-

tion development using her tools and video-

tape series published by Virtual Firmware —

and Bill House will continue our broadening

with his devcon presentation on Object Ori-

ented Programming.

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