Tuesday, March 11: Tamar E. Granor on Office 365

Our next meeting will be next Tuesday, March 11.

Tamar Granor will be speaking this month. The topic is “Office 365: An IT Department for small businesses.”

Abstract: Small development shops (and other small businesses) generally don't have the skills in-house to operate a mail server or host their own website. Time spent on these and other IT tasks comes out of billable hours. Microsoft's Office 365 offers an inexpensive way of outsourcing these tasks. For a small monthly fee, a company gets an Exchange server, web hosting, cloud storage, and the latest version of Office.

In this session, we'll look at what Office 365 has to offer, including a look at the SharePoint-based team and public sites you can create.

February 11--Menachem Bazian

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, February 11 at 7 PM. As usual, feel free to bring some dinner and come as early as 6:30 to meet and mingle with other VFP developers.

This month (weather permitting), we’ll host Menachem Bazian’s rescheduled session “Web Services in PHP -- How to share data between your web and VFP applications”

Abstract: This session combines the work we have been doing on PHP with Visual FoxPro and shows you how you can easily create and use web services to easily push data down to you Visual FoxPro applications from your web applications.

If time permits, Menachem will also discuss “MySQL Triggers -- The hidden gem...”

January 14 meeting--Bob Pierce

Our next meeting is Tuesday, January 14. Our speaker this month is Bob Pierce. He describes his session this way:

VFPX has some very powerful tools that are literally take off where MicroSoft  left off.  This month I will be looking at the new E-Book explaining how to get the most from VFPX.  This will explore the contents of this book and explain how it will help you maximize your time deciding which tools are worth exploring for your needs and how to get up and running quickly with those tools even though there is some lacking in documentation for some of the projects.  With the breath of VFPX addons available, this will give you an overview of how to get started quickly to give you enhanced productivity in the IDE as well as give your projects a fresh look and feel that is more modern.  I would also like to have an interactive discussion of some currently topical subjects such as Big data, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, CRM and the like to find out what is already being handled by VFP in our daily use and the hype of some of these buzzwords.

Our February 11 will feature Menachem Bazian, doing the rescheduled session "Web Services: How to create them and use them to share data between your web applications and Visual FoxPro."

Upcoming schedule

Following the cancellation of our December meeting, we now have speakers lined up for January and February. January 14, Bob Pierce will speak on a topic yet to be determined. The cancelled Menachem Bazian presentation on Php and VFP will take place on February 11.

December 10 meeting cancelled due to weather

Due to the forecast for 3-6" of snow, the December 10 meeting is cancelled. We'll reschedule Menachem's presentation.

December 10--Menachem Bazian--Web Services: How to create them and use them to share data between your web applications and Visual FoxPro

The next meeting of the Philadelphia Visual FoxPro User Group is Tuesday, December 10 at 7 PM in
room 158, DeVry University, 1140 Virginia Drive, Fort Washington, PA. As usual, feel free to bring some dinner and come as early as 6:30 PM.

Our speaker this month is Menachem Bazian.

Topic: Web Services: How to create them and use them to share data between your web applications and Visual FoxPro

Abstract: This session combines the work we have been doing on PHP with Visual FoxPro and shows you how you can easily create and use web services to easily push data down to you Visual FoxPro
applications from your web applications.

We’re looking for speakers for upcoming meetings. If you have something to share, let Jim Connolly know (JConnolly@jtca.com).

Upcoming meetings are January 14 and February 11.

November 12--Jim Connolly on West Wind Web Connection

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, November 12. Member Jim Connolly will present “Foxpro and the Internet – The West Wind Connection.” Jim will show how to set up the web server and install West Wind, set up Visual Studio for editing West Wind Pages. He will teach how to create basic web pages with connections to the FoxPro tables on a web server, show how to use grids for display on the web, and show how to move data entered via the web to the tables.

Save December 10 for another visit from Menachem Bazian.