The LA Fox Develover Newsletter

January 1995

The LA Fox Developer is the monthly newsletter 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

HarborCity,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 California.The newsletter contains regular columns and articles from other user groups.

XPro User Group

2210 Wilshire Blvd. - #161

Santa Monica, CA 90403

OC FoxPro Developers Group

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

The Next Meetings

Because the Developers Conference is in session from January 16 through 19, our January user group meeting date has been moved to MONDAY, January 23 at 7:30PM, at the “normal” Torrance Airport meeting place. The speaker is one of our members, Jon Melon ,who will show his FoxPro application with some object oriented flavor. There will also be plenty of time at the January meeting for feedback and discussion with our members who are attending Devcon.

In February, another member, Jeff Knight, will show us some of his new tricks, this time with a report writer. I still remember the very innovative user interface ideas that Jeff demonstrated last year in his medical application, and am looking forward to. learning something new again.

Announcements

Microsoft will present their annual Tech-Ed Conference in New Orleans from March 27 through 31. This is another conference “for computer professionals who design, develop, integrate, or support” Microsoft based solutions. Although many of the FoxPro Devcon presentations are repeated at this conference, the scope is broader and the attendance is larger than the FoxPro Devcon. There are over 300 technical sessions covering 4 broad tracks — Backoffice, with sessions on SQL Server, Windows NT Server, Systems Management Server, and the new Exchange Server — Development Tools, with sessions on FoxPro, Visual Basic, and Visual C++ — Office, with sessions on Excel, Word, Access, and Project — Windows Technologies, with sessions on Windows 95, OLE, Multimedia, and MAPI. I have a brochure with a listing of session titles. The pnceis. $995 before Feb. 1. To register, call 800 433-9996.

From the "I Can’t Believe They Really Said That” Division of NAD (New Acronyms Department):

“The Gold Coast FoxPro User Group meets on the first Thursday of the month. Next meeting is Jan 5 at 7:00 PM at the Boca Raton Sheraton Hotel, 195 and Glades Road.

“Joe Homnick of Homnick Systems will be presenting ‘POOP - Proper Object Oriented Programming’. Joe is a past president of our group and one of the featured speakers at this years DevCon.”

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