rhe L.A Fox Developer Newsletter

Auaust 1995

The LA Fox Developer is the monthly newslet-

ter of the LA Fox User Group. The purpose is

information sharing among application develop-

ers 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

Randy Unruh

(310) 399-9159

2210 Wilshire Blvd. - #161

Santa Monica, CA 90403

DC FoxPro Developers Group

Larry McQuerrey

(714)639-3318

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LA Fox President’s Column (Con't from page 1)

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 - 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 - 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 - a real benefit given the level of complexity in

Visual FoxPro. Secondly most of the presenters are experi-

enced 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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