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rhe L.A Fox Developer Newsletter
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Auaust 1995
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The LA Fox Developer
is
the monthly
newslet
ter of the LA Fox User Group. The
purpose
is information sharing among application developers and
users
working
with
FoxPro.
LA Fox Address:
LA Fox User Group
Chuck Williams (310)
539-9439
977 Ashbndge Lane
Harbor City, CA 90710 LA Fox Board of Directors
Chuck
Williams, President
Barry
Lee, Vice
President/Newsletter Editor
Allen Garfein, Treasurer/Membership
George Dvorak
Bill Seldon
Mike Cummings
Bill Anderson
LA Fox is the oldest FoxPro developers
group
In Southern Califomia.The newsletter contains regular columns and articles from other user groups.
XPro
User Group
2210 Wilshire
Blvd.
-
#161
Santa Monica,
CA
90403
DC FoxPro
Developers
Group
Subscriptions
The annual membership fee for the LA Fox
User Group, including subscription to
The LA
Fox
Developer Newsletter,
is
$45.
Disclaimer
Neither the LA Fox
User
Group, the XPro User Group the OC MS FoxPro Developers Group, their
officers
or
board
of directors or their members make any express or implies warranties of any kind
with
regard to any information lisseminated, including, but not limited to, Narranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose.
Opinions provided by newsletter articles, or by speakers, members, or guests who address the meetings, are individual opinions only, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the group. All opinions and information should be carefully considered, and the group is not liable ror any incident or consequential damages in connection with, or arising out of, the furnishing or use of any information or opinions. Brand names and
product
names may be trademarks or
registered
trademarks of their respective owners.
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LA Fox President’s Column
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past for their proprietary IVR systems. Voysys is selling this
capability
for FoxPro 2.6 now, will have a Visual FoxPro version soon, and is working closely with Microsoft and Borland to support other products in the near future.
One of the main reasons to come to user group meetings is to find out what’s going on, expand your mind, and open your eyes to new ideas
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this was one of those sessions. Our thanks to Gene for taking the time travel to LA and speak
with
us. I will have extra copies of the Voysys information pack at the next meeting.
Training
Most of us are excited by the challenge of the robust new application development capabilities contained in Visual FoxPro. We are delighted by the larger opportunities that
it
opens for us, but we are also concerned about the major effort and time required to get up to speed. We must not only assimilate the details of using the new tools and commands, but must also establish new ways of thinking, new design approaches and new development methodologies to take advantage of
the
power. Fortunately help is on the way.
As we have heard in several of our recent meetings, the leading FoxPro consulting and training companies are now offering serious, multi-day Visual FoxPro training courses. Georae Goley of Micro Endeavors has already done a VFP session in LA, and is combining forces with Micro-Mega to offer future training sessions on the West Coast
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with Mike Meer as one of their
instructors
by the way! As part of their eight city Road Show, Flash Creative Management is teaching a full week training session in LA
(which
will be in progress at the time of our user group meeting), and Application Development Training Company, for whom John Miller trains, will soon expand their extensive FoxPro offering to include VFP.
Although these training sessions are expensive in terms of both dollars and time, seminars given by these kinds of high caliber companies provide real value that is hard to duplicate. First of all they use their considerable training expertise to organize the information for learning and to provide examples and samples to clarify the ideas
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a real benefit given the level of complexity in Visual FoxPro. Secondly most of the presenters are experienced developers, with years of hands-on work experience on real applications for real clients, so they can orient the material for getting results rather than just for academic wonderfulness. Furthermore, these companies have better access to early information than most of us, through their close connections to Microsoft during the beta test cycle.
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