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The LA Fox Developer
A Newsletter for
FoxPro
Application Developers in Southern California
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July 1994
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As FoxPro gets richer, and user expectations rise, and the world gets more complex with cross- platform apps, distributed client-server situations, OLE communication among many applications, and development by teams rather than single developers, the issue of development methodology increases in importance. At the June meeting we were privileged to a session on this topic, lead by another one of our own “pros”, Jim Thompson. Jim has been operating with his consulting business, Thompson Consulting Group, here in Los Angeles for over 12 years, and therefore ranks among the most experienced and successful Xbase and FoxPro developers. The level of expertise he brings to the party is a rare and valuable item, and the fact that he was willing to share it so openly, marks one of the remarkable characteristics of the FoxPro community, and one of the values of a user group such as this one.
Jim’s presentation topic was Minimizing Complexity in Large FoxPro Applications, and the material was exceptionally well organized and well presented. This was primarily a session on methodology, with some discussion of programming, so there were benefits to novice as well as experienced developers, independent of whether you are working on a DOS, Windows, or Macintosh platform. He structured the presentation around a set of charts and diagrams
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which he subsequently provided to the audience as handouts. His style was informal and interactive, which encouraged a high level of audience involvement
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although with our group its hard to not have audience participation.
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[Ed. Note: Randy Unruh’s regularly-featured column,
XPro User Group News, will
resume next month.]
A Word About Les
This month’s featured speaker, Les Pinter, is the author of some half-dozen books on
FoxPro,
as well as the publisher of
The Pinter FoxPro Letter.
He is a regular contributor to
Fox Talk
and many other national publications, and an international consultant.
He will also be addressing the Orange County FoxPro Group tomorrow night, July 13, in the Microsoft Irvine Office, at 6:30 PM. The address is 3 Park Plaza
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Suite 1800, Irvine, in the PacTel Cellular Building (405 and Jamboree). And he will be speaking on completely different subjects.
Microsoft
Fox Forum MVP Awards
Microsoft announced the Annual and Third Quarter
Microsoft Support Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
Awards for Compuserve Forum members on July 10,
1994, with a formal announcement on Compuserve.
According to Microsoft:
“This award of excellence recognizes outstanding contributions of technical expertise to the Microsoft forums. Each recipient of the award has been nominated by a Microsoft Section Leader for their work in the forums during the past year. The Annual award winners are previous MVP’s who receive free connect time in selected forums, free MS product, MS items, and additional technical information. The Quarterly winners receive 90 days of free connect time, MS items, and are eligible for future quarterly and annual awards.
Microsoft MVP Awards
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Traversing the GP Fault
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