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The LA Fox Developer
A Newsletter for
FoxPro
Application
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April 1995
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by Chuck Williams
Ken Levy
We don’t get to see Ken as much as we used to, and it is good to know that he hasn’t changed. The unbridled enthusiasm, the rapid fire delivery, and the running stream of laughs were all there as Ken showed us another big slice of Visual FoxPro. With an appreciative audience he is in his glory. In contrast to most FoxPro developers, Ken opened with.the idea that “I don’t do data, you will have to talk to Tom Rettig and George Goley about those things” What Ken does is the visual part and the object oriented part.
In the opening segment, he emphasized the richness of the event model and property sheets, extolled the virtues of the grid object, illustrated the control objects and generally underscored
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idea that for an application developer, the jump from FoxPro 2.6 to Visual FoxPro is about equivalent to two normal releases. I found his observations about configuration interesting
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with the emphasis on visual tools, a large screen, high-res monitor (17 inch, 1000 by whatever) can have a major impact on development productivity
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VFP runs much better and is more stable on Windows NT than other platforms
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don’t try development with less than 16 mb of RAM, and you will like 24 mb a lot better
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its nice that Pentium prices are coming down!
While the first segment was done very much under control, Ken warmed up to his favorite object- oriented ideas in the second segment, and also moved up to his normal speed and higher tpm index (topics per minute). He emphasized the power of the combination of designing visually and
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The April meeting of LA Fox will be held on April 1995
1995, at 7:30 PM at our regular meeting place (the
Torrance Airport, 3301 Airport Drive, in Torrance).
For details on how to get there, see the map on the
back page.
LA
Fox
Continues Its “Mini-DevCon” Series
La Fox will be continuing the mini-DevCon series begun last month with Ken Levy. The next two sessions will be as follows:
April 19, 1995, 7:30 PM
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Tom Rettig. An Xbase evangelist since 1981, Tom is internationally recognized as an authority on the language and its various
design and implementation of dBASE Ill as member of Ashton-Tate’s development team, independently wrote the original Clipper Extend Libraiy, and released two award-winning products, Tom Rettig,’s Library and Tom Rettig’s Help. He is currently upgrading his rapid application product, Tom Rettig’s Office (TRO) to Visual FoxPro. Tom has presented at every DevCon and spoke again this year, giving a presentation on “Introduction to Databases”.
May 9, 1995, 7:30 PM - George Goley. What can you say about George that hasn’t already been said? George is the founder of Micro Endeavors, Inc., the world’s most successful FoxPro training and development firm. He is the author of four database management books, as well as a contributing editor to and member of the Technical Advisory Board of Data Based Advisor. His artides have appeared in DBA, FoxTalk, Byte, and many other publications. His
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