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The LA Fox Developer
A Newsletter for
FoxPro
Application Developers in Southern California
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June
1995
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George Goley. So who needs Devcon?
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after
Ken Levy there was Tom Rettig, and now Georg
Goley, and we’re still on a roll with John Miller in
June
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we’re learning from the best without
leaving home.
To the surprise of no one; George’s session contained a large component of entertainment along with the serious stuff. As usual, he spiced up his presentation with his sense of humor and his juggling skills, which in this case he did with special juggling balls presented by Barry at the beginning of the meeting.
The things I like best about George’s presentations are that he always has plenty of ideas and opinions about application software development in general, as well as specific information about FoxPro, and he always states them in a provocative manner which makes people react. This session was no exception.
For starters he offered an opinion about migration of existing applications from version 2.6 to 3.0. In spite of the conversion tools supplied with Visual FoxPro, he believes that a well running existing app should stay as is, since there aren’t many overpowering reasons from the users standpoint to upgrade. It will be hard to justify migration when in many cases the app won’t run faster and won’t have better appearance or behavior. Furthermore, any application that does move forward should be rewritten rather than converted.
It’s in the development of new applications that the power kicks in. He observed that Visual FoxPro
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La Fox will be continuing the mini-DevCon series begun three months ago with Ken Levy, Tom Rettig, and last month with George Goley. The next four sessions will be as follows:
June 19, 1995, 7:30 PM
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John Miller. John is past President and current Vice-President of the Orange County FoxPro Developers Group, as well as being one of the featured speakers at the last DevCon, the
1994
FoxPro User's Conference in Minneapolis, and Microsoft’s DevDays. He is a nationally recognized speaker, touring the country with Application Developers Training Company. He is the author of
Template
Programming
in FoxPro
2 and President of his own company, Perpetual Data Systems. He’ll be speaking on developing apps in
VFP,
specifically moving 2.X applications into VFP.
July 17, 1995, 7:30 PM
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Voysys.
Mike Seto, from Voysys, will demonstrating his company’s wares. However, this is not a sales pitch. One of the more popular exhibitors at DevCon, this company’s products provide functions to answer the phone, gather touch tone digits as menu options, the ability to “speak” numeric and date data to users who call in, and to accept numeric input for table updates. Its an interac
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Out and About
by Barry R.
Lee
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rhe June meeting of LA Fox will be held on June 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. All meetings
are
being held on the
third Monday
of each month.
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