The LA Fox DeveloDer Newsletter

April 1995

LA Fox President’s Column (Con't from 2)

exploration company. It is running today and ex-. panding to include more tools and cover other parts of the business

The quality of the speakers was excellent. Many of the FoxPro sessions were given by people we, know, such as Menachem Bazian and David Anderson. The sessions were categorized as introductory, advanced, and expert, and many of the expert sessions were presented by members of the development team from Redmond — its always impressive to hear the speaker say something like, yes I can answer that question because I designed that part of the product. On a scale of one to Levy, I found two that could approach the master in terms of information flow rate. Ty Carlson’s Windows NT Interoperability session used about 30 servers running several flavors of Unix and Netware, and 100 Compaq workstations with modems, connected via RAS through modem concentrators. Dan Shelly’s session on Replication Service in SQL Server also moved at Levy speed (but only for an hour and a half) and left the audience limp.

You get some idea of the information overload by the 3 large 2.5 inch binders containing printed versions of the presentation material The conference CD which contains all the presentation slides and also supplementary papers by the speakers is a real relief, and provides a convenient way to review the presentations you missed and to recall the information later. If your interests reach beyond FoxPro and your education budget is large, this conference is a good bet.

Announcements

Micro Endeavors Inc. is doing a nationwide training tour for Visual FoxPro developers. They offer a two day seminar, with the first day concentrated on strategic issues such as client-server, object orientation, OLE2, integration with Office products, Rapid Systems Development, use of OCX objects, and database sizing. The second day focuses on programming topics including data dictionary, form design, visual dasses, project designer, grid controls, and event driven apps. The instructors include George Goley, one of the foremost developers, speakers, and writers in the FoxPro community since its beginnings, and Melissa Dunn, also a

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Out and About (Con't from page 1)

benchmark tests are still in use by vendors and users alike to determine the relative performance of PC databases. George has presented at all six US DevCons, where his performance sessions are standing room only. (Please note the change In schedule for this very special meetlng.J

June 23, 1995, 7:30 PM - John Miller. John is past President and current Vice-President of the Orange County FoxPro Developers Group, as well as being one of the featured speakers at the last DevCon, the 1994 FoxPro User’s Conference in Minneapolis, and Microsoft s DevDays. He is a nationally recognized speaker, touring the country with Application Developers Training Company. He is the author of Template Programming in FoxPro 2 and President of his own company, Perpetual Data Systems. He’ll be speaking on developing apps in VFP.

July 19, 1995, 7:30 PM - Voysys. Mike Seto, from Voysys, will demonstrating his company’s wares. However, this is not a sales pitch. One of the more popular exhibitors at DevCon, this company’s products provide functions to answer the phone, gather touch tone digits as menu options, the ability to “speak” numeric and date data to users who call in, and to accept numeric input for table updates. Its an interactive voice response (IVR) toolkit and its done in FoxPro. We’ll probably get a peek at the code behind this technology, so don’t miss this one.

This is indeed a rare opportunity to see these people when they’re not surrounded by hundreds of people clamoring for their expertise. Its like comparing a sold-out stadium concert with the intimacy of a small night club.

These people will join a list of speakers who have presented to LA Fox that reads like a “Who’s Who” in the Xbase/FoxPro development community:

Since We Last Met....

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