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The LA Fox Developer
A Newsletter for
FoxPro
Application
Developers in Southern California
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June
1994
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May User Meeting
When Perry Andrus takes the podium we are in for a good time, and our May meeting was no exception. Perry led a highly interactive session on FoxPro performance issues, using notes from George Goley’s presentation at the last FoxPro Devcon to structure the discussion. Perry and other members of the audience have had plenty of personal experience with these issues, so there was no shortage of commentary and argument, which made for a very informative as well as entertaining session.
Dramatic improvements in performance over the last several years have had a profound influence on the market for PC-based data management systems. Forgetting all the nitty-gritty arguments about how to properly specify, measure, and program for performance, the fact is that you can effectively process very large files of shared data, with reasonable concurrency and integrity, and with response times that are reasonable and acceptable to business users. Getting a query response in half a second instead of 5 seconds is interesting but not nearly as interesting as the fact that you can get a response in anything like a couple of seconds when the data structure is complex, contains a million records, occupies 100 megabytes of storage, and is being shared by 20 other people. The faster the DBMS can perform a query, the bigger the data files you can manage, the more users can have access, etc. When combined with the fact that you can develop custom solutions at lower cost and shorter times than alternative technologies, these systems become useful in a very large number of business
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XPro User Group News
JUNE
Borland changed their scheduled presentation from the June meeting to the July meeting. So, for the June meeting we had a presentation on MUPET, from Flash Creative Management. For those Fox’ers who have heard of MUPET (Multi-User Project Editing Tool), it replaces FoxPro’s single-user Project Manager. It has some way cool features, like project cloning and user time stamping while keeping all parts of a project in synch when accessed more than one developer at time. We also had some discussions about surfing the Internet.
JULY
Borland has rescheduled their big roll-out of dBASE for Windows for July and they are bringing their dog and pony show to Xbase. As usual, we will have a door prize of the shown product open to all who show up. dBASE for Windows is a fully object oriented programming (OOP) Xbase development system. As such, it should be of great interest to any Xbase developer, regardless of whether they use FoxPro, Clipper, dBASE or any other Xbase product. It definitely shows where Xbase is headed.
FOXPRO CERTIFICATION
I sent following message to Tom Rettig regarding a planned future FoxPro certification plan. Tom supports the idea and I have some reservation which I express in the following:
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DevCon Announced
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Books and Toys....
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