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The L.A Fox Developer Newsletter
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LA Fox President’s Column
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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. 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
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Power Developers Library
and
Development Debugger.
He is offering them at substantial discounts to user group members
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$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 Feltman showed us in one of our earlier meetings. Brochures with product details are available at the user meeting.
Hot Off the Wire
Fri, 03 Jun 94 16:13:17 Microsoft Mail
To: Barry R. Lee 72723.3422@CompuServe.com Subject: FYI: DevCon
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Here It Is! The next Microsoft FoxPro International Developer Conference will be held January 16
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19, 1995, in sunny San Diego, California. We have extended the conference by one day to be a 4-day format in response to your feedback that you need more time to attend all the great sessions that are given at this popular conference. We will begin on Sunday evening, January 15 with a welcome reception, and sessions will begin on Monday the 16th. The conference will wrap up Thursday afternoon, January 19th. A mini-conference will be held on Sunday, January 15th for those new to FoxPro.The conference will be held at the San Diego Convention Center right on gorgeous San Diego Bay. Conference hotels surround the
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June
1994
Center and
will
all be within walking distance. No more waiting for shuttle buses to appear! Registration information will be available sometime this summer so for now just block out the dates and wait patiently. Mailings will go to the FoxPro list of registered users, attendees of prior DevCons, and other miscellaneous lists. Information will also be posted here on CompuServe.Thanks for your ongoing support and loyalty to FoxPro. We are looking forward to another excellent conference and hope to see you there!
The FoxPro Team
XPro User Group News
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Fm: Randy
Unruh
To: Tom Rettig Tom,
I agree with most of your points and, personally, only have two reservations. The first is, I don’t want to have to put the time and money into it but if I do, I do. The second is, it will only prove the certified know something about the mechanics of FoxPro and will prove nothing about knowledge of how to appropriately use it in a business solution (which is the primary reason underlying most of the need for FoxPro programming). I have watched MSFT market Access over FoxPro and have firsthand experience of some customers biting the MSFT marketing line and selecting Access where it was less appropriate than FoxPro. With enough of that experience in hand, I’m dubious if it will have any greater net value to MSFT customers.
But, if it brings me business, as I suspect in will over time from some who have selected Access innappropnately, I don’t really mind. It can be profitable to clean up other's messes.
XBASE
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GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS
First, the bad news. XPro has withdrawn from the ANSII Xbase standards committee. The costs of membership and attendance were far more than than I could personally justify. Unfortunately, XPro is not the first to withdraw for this reason. The good news is that I will continue to monitor the proceedings and that they are on the right track to produce an actual ANSII standard within the not to distant future. This standard is what we, as developers, want in order to help
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