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The LA Fox Developer Newsletter
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February 2000
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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
FoxPro.
LA Fox Address
LA Fox
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
2210 Wilshire Blvd.
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#161
Santa
Monica,
CA
90403
OC FoxPro Developers Group
MembershiplSubscription
The annual membership fee for the LA Fox Developers Group, including subscription to The LA Fox Developer Newsletter, is $48.
Disclaimer
Neither the LA Fox User Group, the XPro User Group, the OC FoxPro Developers Group, their officers or board of directors or their members make any express or implied warranties of any kind with regard to any information disseminated, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability and/ or fitness for a particular purpose.
Opinions provided by newsletter articles, or by speakers, members, or guests who address the meetings, are individual opinions only, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the group. All opinions and information should be carefully considered, and the group is not liable for any incident or consequential damages in connection with, or arising out of, the furnishing or use of any information or opinions. Brand names and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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Out and About
(Con’t from Page 1)
April
17, 2000, 7:30 PM. Peter Butterfield. User Interface Architecture— tips. tricks, and tirades.
Elsewhere
May 14-18, 2000, VFP DevCon 2000, New Orleans Sheraton, New Orleans, LA. This new event is going to have strong support from Microsoft and will be on the same scale/level as Advisor’s DevCon in Miarr But
it
is offering several innovative concepts. Content and direction has been determined by an advisory board made up primarily of speakers. People attending this conference will be allowed to “cross-pollinate” with the SQL conference, running concurrently at the same hotel, free of charge. This means that while an attendee may be registered for the VFP conference, he or she will be able to attend any of the SQL conference sessions absolutely free. Featured speakers at the keynote address will include Robert Green, Product Manager from the Developer Division of Microsoft, and Ricardo Wenger, Visual FoxPro Group Manager from Microsoft. For more info, visit the website at
http://www.vfpdevcon.com.
Fountainebleau Resort
Hotel and Towers, Miami, FL. Speakers are yet to be announced and no other details are forthcoming as of press time. For more info, visit the website at
http://www.advisor.com/cmf0009p.nsf. [Any material relating to this conference.. .speakers, sessions, etc.... still haven’t been announced orreleased. I wonder how long we have to wait.]
November 5-8, 2000, Great Lakes Great Database Workshop 2000, Hyatt Regency, Milwaukee,
WI. More affectionately known as ‘Whil Fest”. The fourth semi-annual (bi-annual?) Great Lakes Great Database Workshop features 20 internationally recognized Visual FoxPro and software development experts presenting over 45 different sessions on Visual FoxPro 7.0 and related areas. For more info, visit the website at
http://www.hentzenwerke.com/conference/great_lakes_2000.htm.
The Return of the Southern California Visual FoxPro Conference.
Watch these pages for details on the conference that everyone keeps asking and talking about. A webpage may be going up soon at
http://
www.mesllc.com/conf2OO1.html....
Since We Last Met
Word on the street is that Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer announced that
VB7 will have true inheritance and a bunch of cool things for the Internet.
Should we, as FoxPro developers, worry? Dunno, yet.. .but the discussion
is rampant on the Universal Thread,
http://www.universalthread.com.
Windows2000 was released to the general public this week amid not-quite- so-much hoopla as 95 or 98. Bill Gates stated in an interview with Today Show host Mall Lauer that as much as 40% of Microsoft’s profit this year will be based on Windows2000 sales.
The state of California turned 150 this week. To commemorate the event, several legislators went to the original state capital, some 20-30 miles north
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