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The LA Fox Developer Newsletter
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June
1997
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Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office 97, Windows 97. These apps have the User interface that are today’s and tomorrow’s user interface standards. The Internet revolution is upon us, and Web technologies have made computers more accessible to end-users. They will be expecting to navigate through our applications as easily as any web page.
To help us do that, Ken Levy kicked off his
“VFP
Web-centric application development” tour right here in Sacramento and showed us that we already have all the pieces needed to create hypertext-based, browser like interfaces. There is no need to wait for Windows 97 or Visual Foxpro 6. Also, Ken’s subclass of the Web Browser control works without the need of a web server.
Joining us in this new frontier were people from San Diego, Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Davis, and Sacramento (of course!). We all knew we had a tough day ahead of us, not only because of Ken’s reputation for thinking and talking at a much higher speed than most of us, but also because it was a lazy Sunday, we had lost an hour of sleep due to daylight savings, and the wind had stirred up allergies. The morning coffee, juice and pastries helped a lot to kick us into gear.
Ken started by covering the basics of web construction: Static HTML, dynamic web pages, ActiveX controls, VBScnpt, and JavaScript. He also showed some of the tools used to build the items for the above starting with “Visual” Notepad, TextPad, Microsoft Word 97, and HTML Control Layout. He showed us how to use VB 5 Control Creation Edition to build a control and use it within Internet Explorer and Visual Foxpro. For those who attended Devcon 95 in San Diego, and remembered seeing Meng-Kuan Phua’s session on the grid control, where he fascinated the audience with a grid within a grid, Ken recreated that excitement by showing a web browser within a web browser. Wow!!!
Lunch was extraordinary. Sally Wong picked the best hotel to cater the lunch. The fajitas were very tasty and flavorful, the salad was fresh and beautifully arranged, the fruit was fresh and delightfully in season, and the drinks were plentiful. The flan dessert looked almost too good to cut into, but that didn’t stop Sally from starting with dessert first, while the rest of us lined up at the buffet table. After a hearty lunch, the group was rounded up outside near the water fountain, where after several tries, Sally finally managed to set us up for a class photo.
The afternoon session flew very fast. As our brains started slowing down and approaching overload, Ken picked up speed and was on a roll. He showed us how he put everything together using a whole application development solution to build
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From: “Scot A. Becker” <scotb@vitus.com>
Organization: Virtual FoxPro User Group (VFUG)
To: “All VFUG Members” <scotb@vitus.com>
Subject: VFUG Announcement
This is an official Virtual FoxPro User Group (VFUG) Announcement
Please excuse the intrusion, but we felt that this was an announcement that all VFUG members should see. The VFUG site is moving locations. Our request to change our domain name, http://www.vfug.org, is in process. We have our lP address listed in the press release below. Please remember that this may not be fully functional in your area for the next couple of days. If the domain name and IP address are not working in your area, you can get a sneak peak of our site at http://ntweb.dev-com.com/tomo. Please, keep all bookmarks and/or any hyperlinks you may have set to the
http:I/
www.vfug.org address.
Thanks,
Scot.
On May 31, 1997 the Virtual FoxPro User Group (VFUG) will move to it’s new site. We will be leaving our “Fournier Transformation" site (http://www.transformation.com and be moving to “The Developers Community” site (http://www.dev-com.com) and plan to stay there indefinitely. In the process you will see many changes and maybe a few bumps as we make our move and set up our new home.
First of all we would like to thank Michel Fournier for creating many of the web pages at our original site and for hosting VFUG. Michel has put countless hours into developing and maintaining the original VFUG site. Unfortunately in the move we will be losing Michel as a VFUG officer. Michel’s site and his time are being consumed by the tremendous success of Foumier Transformation and it’s related web sites. This is why we need to make a move and why we are losing Michel
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Michel is just too busy these days to support VFUG any longer. We would like to take this opportunity to say “Thank You Michel!”
The remaining VFUG officers, Amon Gal-Oz, Scot Becker and Tom O’Hare, want the over 5,000 current VFUG members to know that with the move to the new VFUG site there will be many changes taking place over the next few months. We have been planning a great number of new features and have some very good expansion ideas for VFUG. You may notice some minor changes in the interface but we have kept the site pretty well intact for now.
Developers Community is a hosting service dedicated to supporting the needs of Professional Web developers. The Dev
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