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A Newsletter for
FoxPro
Application Developers in Southern California
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Microcomputer Engineering Services, LLC (MESLLC) has formally announced confirmation of plans to sponsor their second annual Visual FoxPro Conference, August 20-23, 1998.
MESLLC sponsored their first conference, appropriately named “The First Annual Southwest Regional FoxPro Spring Conference”, in the Spring of 1997. Featuring world-class speakers and vendors, it attracted attendees from across the United States and the Phillipines.
This year, there are plans for an even bigger, better, and more intense event. The conference itself has been renamed “The
2nd Annual Southern California Visual FoxPro Conference” and has the distinction of being one of the only other FoxPro-related conferences, besides Advisor DevCon in the Spring, that will be held in 1998. Minneapolis, Toronto, and Milwaukee have decided not to have conferences this year. Because of this, the
format of the MESLLC conference has been changed from a 2- day event to three solid days of VFP.
The event will be held at The Doubletree Hotel
in
Costa Mesa, CA. Selection of the site was based on the feedback from last year’s conference, the primary complaint being that there was no place to go in the evenings for entertainment and no where to eat dinner, other than the hotel and the Taco Bell across the street. <g>
Currently, the confirmed speakers for the conference are Tamar
Granor, Mac Rubel, Miriam Liskin, Rod Paddock, John V.
Petersen, Ken Levy, Les Pinter, Eldor Gemst, Whil Hentzen,
Drew Speedie, and Mike Feitman. More speakers will be
“signing up” over the next 30 days to complete the roster.
Attendees will have their choice of over 50 sessions to sit in on.
This event promises to be as “cost effective” as last years and attendees will have more to do, both during the conference and “after hours”.
The Conference WebSite is
http://wviw.mesIIc.com/conf98.htmI.
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At LA Fox
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Out and About
January 19, 1998, 7:30 PM
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Les Pinter.
While working on a
Ph.D. in economics at Rice University in Houston, Texas, Les joined with two high-school friends to develop the Magic Wand,
one of the first word processing programs for microcomputers.
In 1990 he sold the
source code to Microsoft, which used it in the development of Microsoft Word. During the development of a dBase III application for LucasFilm, Les discovered that FoxBase
ran
hiS applications 7 times faster, and was
immedately hooked on Fox. He began The Pinter FoxPro Letter, (now in its eighth year) a newsletter published both in the US and in Moscow (a Russian language edition).Les has written 6 books on programming in FoxPro for McGraw-Hill. He is a Contributing Editor for Point DBF, the French data base magazine, a technical editor for lOG books, and writes “The Cutting Edge” column for FoxTalk. His consulting practise in California includes both corporate customers and firms that market applications written in FoxPro. He gives in-house seminars in English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Les is a
private pilot, and once played lead guitar in the road band for Jerry Lee Lewis.
[Sony. ..just had to stick that it in, Les!]
February 16, 1998, 7:30 PM
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Jonathan Melvin. Jon’s topic for the evening
will be “Creating and Operating an Enterprise System using Visual FoxPro”. It sounds like one you shouldn’t miss. Here’s a “brief’ synopsis:
The largest underground storage tank testing company in the United States operates their order entry, field operations, and
reporting using a distributed FoxPro system. This system has been in continuous operation since 1983 and was originally
(Con't, page 2)
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The January meeting of LA Fox will be held on Jan.19, 1998, 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.
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