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The LA
Fox Developer
Newsletter
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July
1995
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Out and About
(Con't from page 1)
presented to
LA Fox
that reads like a ‘Who’s Who” in the
Xbase/FoxPro
development community:
Beginning in August, by popular request, we’ll be
switching gears and spotlighting applications and
techniques by members of our own
group:
August 21, 1995, 7:30 PM
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Bill Anderson/Chuck Williams. Bill and Chuck will discuss their experi
ences in both building and managing the SITN Registration System. This program (written with
FoxPro for the Macintosh) replaces a manual system used
to
track
all aspects pertaining to
televised courses held at Stanford University in Palo
Alto, California.
September 18, 1995,
7:30 PM
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Microcomputer Engineering Services (MES). Microcomputer Enqineenng
Services (MES)
has been developing
custom
FoxPro
applications for clients all over
Southern California, as well as other parts of the
country, during the last several years.
MES
spe
cializes in system analysis/design, third-party add-in
products, and quality/productivity improvement. On this night,
MES
will be demonstrating tips and
techniques developed for applications running at
several client sites, as well as discussing user interface issues, system design, design tools, RAD
and other development issues.
But wait a minute... .Les Pinter called me a few
nights ago and expressed an interest in coming back to
LA Fox
to address the group on
VFP.
We’re
trying to work out the logistics of keeping at least
five or six balls in the air (Eat your heart out,
George!) while flying back and forth to Russia. More news on this as it develops. We’re trying for
September or October.
Since We Last Met....
“Bubba” Pokes Fun at Microsoft’s Bob Microsoft’s
Bob,
the lite graphical user interface for
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home PC users, now has an irreverent heckler.
“Bubba,” a spoof of human interfaces that features a
cantankerous cartoon armadillo that guides you
through your Windows chores, is yours for the downloading in
two
ZiffNet forums.
A desktop shows a backwater office with an ancient
typewriter, a broken television set, and an unwieldy stack of papers, while Bubba offers practical pointers
(“Why on God’s green earth are y’all clicking there for? They ain’t nothing to see”) and philosophical advice (“Don’t cuss out nobody you don’t know”). The interface also includes WAV files that provide additional homilies and amusing sound effects.
Bubba is a fully functional Windows shell program
that lets you launch DOS or Windows programs. The file BUBBA.ZIP is now available on ZiffNet in the Windows Sources Forum’s Library 3, “General
Shareware” and the PBS Utilities Forum, Library 11, “System Utils-WIN.” The file requires Windows 3.1,
2MB of RAM, and VBRUN300.DLL. To install VBRUN300.DLL, the runtime required for programs
written in Visual BASIC for Windows 3.0, download VBRUN3.ZIP in the PBS
Utilities Forum’s Library 17,
“Information Desk.”
To access the Windows Sources Forum, GO WINSOURCES. To
access
the PBS Utilities Forum, GO PBSUTILS. ZiffNet is part of CompuServe’s extended services and
carries additional membership
fees. GO ZIFFMEM for details.
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? In case you’ve
been hibernating in a cave or locked away in some
monastery, it’s common knowledge that Bill Gates is now the richest man in the
world, according to
Forbes
Magazine.
Estimated
worth
at $12.9 billion (up from
$4.7
billion a year ago) equates to $12.9 million a day, $536,530 an hour, $8,492 a minute, and $149 a second. Now the $64,000 question (or 7.15 minutes of Mr. Bill’s time) is how much more he’s worth since the report appeared in
Forbes.
Mergers & Deals in the News Adaptec acquired Future Domain for $25 million. NEC intends to purchase a 20% stake, worth and estimated $170 million, in Packard
Bell.
Samsung extended its June 30
deadline to July
28 in the purchase of 5.82 million shares ($128 million) of AST Research. Intuit
(Quicken)
has forged an alliance with American
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