The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

August 1999

The LA Fox Developer is the monthly newsletter of

the LA Fox Developers Group. The purpose is

information sharing among application developers

and users working with FoxPm.

LA Fox Addess

LA Fox

Barry R. Lee

714/375-3300

P.O. Box 6624

Huntington Beach, CA 92615-6624

LA Fox Board of Directors

Barry R. Lee, President/Newsletter Editor

Bill Anderson, Vice President/Programs

Twila Miller, Treasurer/Membership

Jonathan Melvin

Wayne Stahnke

David Salson

Mike Cummings

Michael Meer

George Porter

LA Fox is the oldest FoxPro developer’s group in

Southern California. The newsletter contains regular

columns as well as articles from other user groups.

XPro User Group

Randy Unruh

310/399-9159

2210 Wilshire Blvd. - #161

Santa Monica, CA 90403

OC FoxPro Developers Group

Mike Vincent

(714)970-9147

Membership/Subscription

The annual membership fee for the LA Fox Develop-

ers Group, including subscription to The LA Fox

Developer Newsletter, is $48.

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Out and About (Con't from Page 1)

Elsewhere

3rd Annual Southern California Visual FoxPro Conference, August

26-29, 1999, DoubleTree Hotel, Costa Mesa, CA. Sponsored by Micro-

computer Engineering Services, LLC (MESLLC), this show promises to be

one of the highlights of the conference season.The event will be held at The

Doubletree Hotel in Costa Mesa, CA, the site of last year's conference.

We’ll be following the same format of having the opening/keynote address

on the evening of the 26th, with actual sessions beginning on Friday

morning, the 27th, and running through Sunday, the 29th. Currently, the

confirmed speakers for the conference are Menachem Bazian, Jim Booth,

Randy Brown, Gary DeWitt, Mike Feltman, Toni Feitman, Eldor Gemst,

Tamar Granor, Y.Alan Griver, Doug Hennig, Ken Levy, Rod Paddock, John

Petersen, Steve Sawyer, Drew Speedie, and others. Attendees will have

their choice of approximately 70 sessions to sit in on. For further informa-

tion, keep your browsers pointed to http://www.mesllc.com/conf99.html.

For your convenience, the conference registration form can be found on

page 9 of this newsletter or you may download it from the conference

website. It’s still the best deal going!!

MaxTeach, August 26,1999. First ever MaxTeach One-Day Conference

for Visual MaxFrame Professional developers August26, 1999, DoubleTree

Hotel, Costa Mesa, CA. VMP developers will not want to miss this opportu-

nity to spend a day improving their skills in the Visual MaxFrame Profes-

sional 4.0 framework. Drew Speedie and other speakers will cover many

topics not discussed in the Reference Guide/Tutorials, and Drew will chair a

Q&A session. Session notes are provided. Join your fellow VMP developers

forthis special event, held in conjunction with the 3rd Annual Southern

California Visual FoxPro Conference. MaxTeach attendees who also attend

the Visual FoxPro Conference receive a substantial discount on the regis-

tration fee. For more session and registration information, point your

browser to http://www.maxlink.com/vmp/maxteach.htm.

VFE DevCon, September 19-22, 1999, Monte Carlo, Las Vegas, NV.

That’s right, it’s happening again. F1 Technologies is pleased to announce

that it will be hosting the 5th almost annual Visual FoxExpress Developers

Conference. The annual Visual FoxExpress developers conference has

long been the premier third party application development tool event This

year they’ve teamed up with Markus Egger of EPS Software and Rick

Strahi of West-Wind Technologes to bring you an event like no other - The

Visual FoxExpress Mega Double Impact Extreme DevCon! This one-of-a -

kind event focuses on the hottest Visual FoxPro application development

techniques including COP, COM, DCOM, XML, DHTML and more, as well

as using best-of-breed tools such as Visual FoxExpress, Web Connection

and Visual WebBuilder for creating desktop, client-server, n-tier and

Internet/Intranet applications. You can register for both events for just

$1099, the Visual FoxExpress Developers Conference from Sunday —

Wednesday for $599 or the Mega Double Impact Event from Wednesday to

Sunday is also just $599. For more info, visit Fl’s website at http://

wvwv.fltech.com.

Since We Last Met.....

Mind-it Added to the Conference Website. Ever since PageWatch decided

to curtail its valued service last month, for “bigger and better things”, I’ve

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