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 confer-

ence 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 orien-

tation, 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 con-

trols, 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 Devel-

opers Training Company. He is the author of Tem-

plate 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 prod-

ucts 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:

Bill House

Lisa Slater

Les Pinter

Adam Greene

John Miller

Savannah Brentnall

Nancy Jacobson

David Anderson

Dick Bard

Mike Feltman

Since We Last Met....

A plethora (ya gotta

love that word) of events hay

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