LA Fox President’s Column (Con't from p.3)

will be held in Los Angeles in July. I have a brochure with course descriptions and dates. You can register at (800) 922-2019. They also offer two Advanced FoxPro development courses but you have to go to Chicago (the city in Illinois) for those.

Pinnacle Publishing has just completed publication of the second series of reports called The Pros Talk Fox , and is offering selected volumes at $29 each. These are excellent sources of information by first rate authors, and are well worth the price if the topic matches your interests. For example, Melissa Dunn’s report on SQL is one of the best treatments I have seen, Hank Fay offers a complete treatise on Event Driven Programming, and Whil Hentzen just issued a good methodology for application development. I will have the list of topics at the User Meeting. You can order at (800)

231-1293.

Mac Rubel, nationally known writer and speaker on FoxPro, has announced the availability of upgraded versions of his two packages of application development tools - Power Developers Library and Development Debugger. He is offering them at substantial discounts to user group members - $245 for the pair. I will have brochures at the user meeting. You can order direct from Mac at (212)

972-2330.

Neon Software is releasing the Windows version of FoxExpress with many improvements over the DOS version that Mike Feitman showed us in one of our earlier meetings. Brochures with product details are available at the user meeting.

Short Takes...

Lately there have been quite a few celebrities leaving the United States to make their homes in other countries. It was only a matter of time before the exodus hit the FoxPro community. Lisa Slater, as of July, will be living “down Under’ in Australia. All is not lost, though. She’s still writing books and articles, and can still be reached on CompuServe at 71333,2565.

Out and About (Con't from p.1)

“Everyone benefits when experts share their knowledge and experience, and we want to recognize the MVP winners for their past and future contributions to the lively technical dialogues on Microsoft products on our Compuserve forums.”

.And now the envelope, please. The new crop of winners are:

Annual MVP’s

Quarterly MVP’s

An interesting footnote to this batch of awards was a response/message posted on CompuServe within hours of the announcement:

MVP Awards Richard Skinner 72143,3277 Mktg/Sales/lnfoClS:FOXFOR

Just read the News Flash on the MVP awards. I have no quarrel with the persons named (they are all longtime MVP’s in my book), but I would have expected to see three more: Ken Levy, Steven Black, and Andrew Ross McNeil (maybe also Bill Anderson). These people may not be on the forum every day, helping out poor lost souls like me, but they have given us, without thought of compensation, the fruits of much labor with the GENX projects and their various auxiliary items (such as a beautifully executed Help package). If you will accept nominations from a semi-lurker, please consider these people nominated!

Richard

A New Newsletter

Chris Date, David McGoveran, and Fabian Pascal, who bill themselves as “three of the world’s foremost database experts” have announced plans to publish a

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