The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

April 1995

Getting to Know....

The Board Members

No one thinks very much about what it takes to make LA Fox go, in terms of organization and planning. That’s an indication that things have been going pretty smooth lately. This article will acquaint you with the LA Fox Board of Directors/Officers who are working behind the scenes. It will let you know about their backgrounds, both in out of Fox- related territory, and should provide at least a starting point for realizing some of the resources available to the membership. In the coming months, we’ll also be “spotlighting” other members of the group.

Bill Anderson , Board Member. FoxPro consultant/ developer specializing in cross-platform development. Developer of the 3DBOX.PRG and CHGFRLBL.PRG GENSCRNX driver. Bill works in the DOS, Windows and Macintosh environments. Current afld former clients include the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Stanford Business Systems/KSA, Warner Bros. Records, Rockwell International, and KPMG Peat Marwick. Bill can be reached on CompuServe at 72712,3417.

George Dvorak , Board Member. George Dvorak does custom FoxPro programming and program modifications for businesses and other consultants. He works in FoxPro DOS and FoxPro Windows. His current and past projects include modifications to AccountMate (version 3.5 and Premier) and SBT (VisionPoint and Professional) accounting systems; a shipping-rate shopper that calculates the number of packages and shipping rates for a variety of shipping methods; a data entry system that allows data entry at multiple sites and then merges the data; created a system to retrieve CD-ROM data (the application program has only a command-line interface and returns data only to the screen). George’s CompuServe ID is 71140,3527.

Michael Cummings , Board Member. Michael has a Bachelors degree with Double Major in Finance and Accounting from Cal State Fullerton. He has 15 years management experience in the bicycle industry, 6 years with Huffy servicing major retailers such as Target, Kmart, and Sears. He is also “Factory- trained in professional Christmas Tree Assembly”.

“I remember waiting every day for the UPS truck to

bring FoxPro 2.0 when it first came out. The first system I made was for myself and my secretary at Huffy, to track calls, projects, and schedules for 30 technicians, 60 accounts, and 3 simultaneous large projects.”

Systems developed range from the usual Payroll

reporting to a full-blown Mortgage Telemarketing

Loan Origination System. Clients have included

AST, American Savings Bank and Fox Broadcasting

His CompuServe ID is 73651,1132.

Allen Garfeln, Treasurer/Membership. The strong, silent type.

Barry R. Lee , Vice-President/Newsletter Editor. FoxPro systems developer specializing in custom applications. Clients include Fox Broadcasting, Southwest Material Handling, Campus Crusade for Christ, Stratford-Avon, KIA, and Greaney Medical Group, among others. His specialties include system analysis, third-party product integration, RAD tools, and quality/productivity improvement methodologies. He can be reached on CompuServe at 72723,3422.

Chuck Williams President After a long career as an engineer and manager with GE and Honeywell in the mainframe computer business, Chuck switched into consulting as an independent about 6 years ago. He started using FoxBase/Mac to develop custom database applications back in 1989, when it was still coming from Fox Software and the Devcons were held in Perrsyville Ohio. He has been with the LA Fox User Group since day one when it was started by Greg Dunn. He did a lot of his application development work as a subcontractor to Stanford Business Systems, one of the early FoxPro leaders and a major Microsoft Solution Provider. Last year he joined SBS full time as a Project Manager, where the focus has shifted to client\server systems and information technology consulting. His CompuServe ID is 72330,2326.

Making Browse Faster (Con? from page 9)

I could not find any documentation which suggests the order of the clauses would make any difference, but it surely does. The good code looks like

BROWSE

KEY m.street

FOR main.direction • m.direction AND

main.streetype = m.streetype AND

m.in.hous.no • m.hous.no

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