The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

January 1995

John Miller

to Address

OCFDG

John Miller, the vice-president of the Orange

County Foxpro Developers Group, will be making a

presentation on “Advanced FoxPro Controls” at the

regular meeting of the group on Wednesday,

January 11,1995, at 6:30 PM. The meeting will be

held at the Orange County Microsoft Office at

Suite 1800, 3 Park Plaza, Irvine, CA (Air Touch).

This presentation will provide a sneak preview of

John’s address which he’ll be presenting at

DevCon this month.

Directions:405 South, Jamboree exit, left over 405,

right at first driveway, past the front of the Hyatt

Hotel and park on far side, behind the parking

structure The Air Touch Building is one of the three

tall buildings next to the Hyatt. Free parking is

provided behind the parking structure.

The Year in Review [Con't from page 9]

November 1994

FoxPro MAChete

LA Fox Finds New Home

DDE Faxing With FP/Windows and WinFax v4.0

Since We Last Met... .Current Events

FoxPro 3.0 Preview

DDE Real World 101

Job Opportunities

December 1994

LA Fox President’s Column

Out and About... .Current Events

The Twelve Bugs of Christmas

Job Opportunities

Out and About [Con't from page 1]

general. The idea is to pass out these cards, much

like any professional person making a new business

acquaintance, when you meet someone at DevCon, or

anywhere else, who wants to know more about the

group. The front of the cards have the basic “letter-

head” of our newsletter, with space for your name,

while the reverse has general information regarding

the group and how to reach Chuck or me. Anyone

who wants a supply of these cards can reach me on

CompuServe at 72723,3422 or by phone at 714/968-

4225.

The Natural...

Just got a Microsoft “natural” keyboard. You know, the

one that looks like it got left in an overheated car

interior. It takes some getting used to, but its ergo-

nomic design, which very subtly reinforces good

keyboarding technique, is really quite slick. I highly

recommend it to anyone who’s in front of a tube,

dancing their fingers across a keyboard for hours on

end. The only disadvantage to using this keyboard is

space limitations. Unless you have ample desk space,

you will have to consider purchasing a keyboard

drawer, such as the one manufactured by SRW (about

$40, which is a perfect fit and one of the few being

made that will accomodate it). And if you have even

less desk space, and are using one of those under-

desk sliding drawers, like the one by Rubbermaid,

you’ll need to replace the drawer with one of your own

design. (Hint: You’ll need an effective working area of

12” X 28” to 33” to accomodate both the keyboard and

mouse/mouse pad combination, if you wish to keep

them both at the same working level.)

The keyboard comes with its own software,

“IntelliType”, (after all, it’s from Microsoft), which can

be optionally loaded to turn the keyboard into a “smart”

keyboard with programmable function keys and nu-

menc keypad mouse functionality. Without the soft-

ware, it still functions as a normal keyboard. At $89,

it’s a good hedge against repetitive stress injuries

(carpal tunnel syndrome, etc.) and offers an inexpen-

sive alternative to the more expensive and sophisti-

cated “articulating” keyboards on the market today.

Since We Last Met...

Speaking of repetitive stress injuries (RSI) Nancy

Urbanski, a former high school assistant administrator,

is suing IBM and Apple in what will be the first RSI suit

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