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A Newsletter for
FoxPro
Application Developers in Southern California
December 1995
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Neon Software,
developers
of
FoxExpress
and
Visual FoxExpress,
sponsored the second annual
FoxExpress Developers Conference at Treasure
Island, Las Vegas, from Dec. 4-6, 1995.
For those not familiar with
Express,
it is a rapid application development (RAD) tool that is not just an everyday application generator.
Express
represents an actual development environment, extending many of the functions and features of
FPW2.6
and
VFP,
while staying within the framework and design surfaces of many of the “power tools” of
FoxPro.
It’s like a wizard on steroids, in that it produces robust code that handles the more mundane and not-so-mundane tasks that every developer encounters in every application, leaving more time for the developer to handle the “tweaks” that every client seems to come up with.
This year’s conference featured many well-known speakers and developers within the
FoxPro
community, including Jim Frayer, Will Tartack, Dan Freeman, Alan Schwartz, Andrew Ross-MacNeil, Eldor Gemst, Dave Frankenbach, Mike Robbins, Kristyne McDaniel, and of course, Mike Feltman and Toni Taylor-Feltman, the originators of the product.
There were twenty-two topics covered in this in- depth conference, each lasting 1-3/4 hours. So needless to say, it was impossible to attend each session and, by the end, every attendee was suffering from “brain overload”. (This year’s conference featured a truly international atten
(Con’t, page 8)
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christmas
Party. Last year, we were very fortunate to be treated to one of the first previews of Visual FoxPro. Who knows what surprises await us this year? One sure thing will be George Dvorak’s delightful treats that never disappoint. Ken Levy and Bill Anderson will also feature a couple of things they’ve been working on. Maybe a surprise guest or two if I
can get
them. Plan for an evening of fun and friendship. (See “Christmas Party Skinny”, page 8.)
January
15, 1996, 7:30 PM
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Panel/Open Discussion on Marketing and
Client Relations. Due to a recent interest in this topic, we’re having a group of about 4 or 5 individuals, including David Jones of Microsoft! Irvine, lead a discussion on marketing techniques and client relations. Those interested can contact Barry Lee, via phone (714/968-4225) or CompuServe (72723,3422).
Also in January The Cris Wittrous Road Show.
Cris Wittrous, product manager for Microsoft FoxPro,
will be sending her crack team of specialists to Orange
County to kick off the new National Visual FoxPro
Road Show. The location, central to the LA, OC,
and
San Diego groups, will be the Red Lion Inn, 3050
Bristol St., Costa Mesa, CA, 92646, on January 17th,
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The December meeting of LA Fox will be held on Dec.19, 1995, at 7:30 PM at our regular meeting place (the Torrance Airport, 3301 Airport Drive, in Torrance). For details on how to get there, see the map on the back page.
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