The LA Fox Developer

A Newsletter for FoxPro Application Developers in Southern California

June 1995

LA Fox President’s Column

by Chuck Williams

George Goley. So who needs Devcon? - after

Ken Levy there was Tom Rettig, and now Georg

Goley, and we’re still on a roll with John Miller in

June - 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 opin-

ions about application software development in

general, as well as specific information about

FoxPro, and he always states them in a provoca-

tive 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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(Con't, page 2)

LA Fox Continues Its “Mini-DevCon” Series

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 - 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 Develop-

ers 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 - 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-

(Con’t, page 3)

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Out and About

by Barry R. Lee

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 Tor-

rance). 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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