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The LA Fox Developer Newsletter
February 2000
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
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
MembershiplSubscription
The annual membership fee for the LA Fox Develop-
ers 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 consid-
ered, 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 respec-
tive owners.
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 confer-
ence, 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.
September 24-28, 2000, Advisor Visual FoxPro DevCon,
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
(Con’t, paqe 3)
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