The September meeting of the Philadelphia VFP User Group will take place Tuesday, September 9 at 7:00 PM at Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. (Note: The Oreland offramp from PA 309 Southbound has been permanently closed. The easiest way to reach the meeting location from the PA Turnpike or 309 Southbound is to come through the Fort Washington Industrial Park.)
As usual, you're welcome to bring some dinner and come as early as 6:30.
Tamar E. Granor will be rehearsing her Southwest Fox session "We Used to Do it That Way, But ...".
Each new version of Visual FoxPro has brought new ways to do things, but breaking old habits is hard. Now that the VFP language has stabilized, it's time to hone our skills. This session examines some of the changes in the language over the years and demonstrates that learning to use the newer constructs can result in better, more maintainable, faster code.
Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., is the owner of Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC. She has developed and enhanced numerous Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She currently focuses on working with other developers through consulting and subcontracting. Tamar served as Editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine from 1994 to 2000 and was Technical Editor from 2000 to 2008. She served as co-author of the popular Advisor Answers column from 1993 to 2008. She has also written for FoxTalk, Code, and FoxRockX.
Tamar is author or co-author of nine books including the award winning Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro and Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro. Her most recent books are Taming Visual FoxPro's SQL and What's New in Nine: Visual FoxPro's Latest Hits. Her books are available from Hentzenwerke Publishing (www.hentzenwerke.com). Her next collaboration, Making Sense of Sedna and SP2, will be published in 2008.
Tamar is a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Microsoft Support Most Valuable Professional. Tamar speaks frequently about Visual FoxPro at conferences and user groups in North America and Europe, including every FoxPro DevCon since 1993.
You can reach her at tamar@thegranors.com or through www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com.
Note that we will have NO meeting in October, due to Southwest Fox.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Menachem Bazian on setting up a LAMP Server
Menachem Bazian returns to the Philadelphia VFP User Group next week to continue his discussion about combining VFP with MySQL. This will be the first meeting on our new, seond Tuesday schedule. The meeting begins at 7 PM on August 12, but you're welcome to bring some dinner and arrive as early as 6:30 PM.
We meet at Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. (Note that the Oreland offramp from PA 309 Southbound has been permanently closed. The easiest way to reach the meeting location from the PA Turnpike or 309 Southbound is to come through the Fort Washington Industrial Park.)
Menachem Bazian, CPA (NY), CITP is the President of BC Consulting Services, Inc., a business management and technology consulting firm specializing in enhancing client efficiency with intelligent application of technology. He has been a Fox developer for over 20 years and is the author of three books and numerous articles on the topic. He was a featured speaker at DevCons for over a decade.
This session will discuss how to set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server. It's a continuation of his last session on MySQL, but those who missed that meeting can still benefit from this one.
We meet at Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. (Note that the Oreland offramp from PA 309 Southbound has been permanently closed. The easiest way to reach the meeting location from the PA Turnpike or 309 Southbound is to come through the Fort Washington Industrial Park.)
Menachem Bazian, CPA (NY), CITP is the President of BC Consulting Services, Inc., a business management and technology consulting firm specializing in enhancing client efficiency with intelligent application of technology. He has been a Fox developer for over 20 years and is the author of three books and numerous articles on the topic. He was a featured speaker at DevCons for over a decade.
This session will discuss how to set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server. It's a continuation of his last session on MySQL, but those who missed that meeting can still benefit from this one.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Menachem Bazian to return August 12!
This summer has been an amazing one for our group. In June, we had a visit from Marcia Akins, who showed us to how to put the Windows API to work. In July, Cathy Pountney demonstrated a clever scheme for maintaining a single code base for a vertical market application, yet allowing customization for individual clients.
We've just confirmed that Menachem Bazian will return for our August 12th meeting. He'll talk about setting up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python) server. Although this is a sequel to his February topic, those who missed that meeting should have no trouble following along.
Note that August is the first month for our new meeting night, the second Tuesday of the month. While you're putting this meeting on your calendar, also mark September 9th. I'll be speaking that night, rehearsing my new session, "We Used to Do it That Way, But ..." for Southwest Fox.
We've just confirmed that Menachem Bazian will return for our August 12th meeting. He'll talk about setting up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python) server. Although this is a sequel to his February topic, those who missed that meeting should have no trouble following along.
Note that August is the first month for our new meeting night, the second Tuesday of the month. While you're putting this meeting on your calendar, also mark September 9th. I'll be speaking that night, rehearsing my new session, "We Used to Do it That Way, But ..." for Southwest Fox.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
July meeting--Cathy Pountney on Customizing Vertical Market Apps
Out group's exciting summer continues next Wednesday, July 16, with a visit from Cathy Pountney to present "Customizing Your Vertical Market Application." As usual, dinner begins at 6:30 with the meeting at 7 PM. Once again this month, we'll provide dinner for the group; please send an email to tamar@tamargranor.com if you're planning to come for dinner, so we get enough.
The meeting location is Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. Note that the Oreland offramp from PA 309 Southbound has been permanently closed. The easiest way to reach the meeting location from the PA Turnpike or 309 Southbound is to come through the Fort Washington Industrial Park.
Cathy Pountney is a five-time recipient of the Microsoft VFP MVP award and has been developing software for 26 years, many of which were as an independent consultant specializing in FoxPro. In 2001 she had the privilege of spending six months as a contractor onsite in Redmond with the Microsoft Fox Team. She now works for Memorial Business Systems writing software for the cemetery and funeral home industry. Cathy has spoken at many FoxPro conferences and user groups across the U.S. and Canada, written articles for various magazines, and her book, The Visual FoxPro Report Writer: Pushing it to the Limit and Beyond, is available from Hentzenwerke Publishing. You can contact Cathy at cathy@frontier2000.com, view her website at http://www.frontier2000.com, and view MBS’s website at www.mbs-intl.com.
Customizing Your Vertical Market App:
Writing a vertical market application can be very rewarding. You write one application, sell it numerous times, and sit back while the money rolls in. Well, that’s the theory anyway. The reality is that often times, new clients want to buy your software, as long as you can change this one little thing. Managing custom code for various clients within your application can easily turn into a nightmare as your client base expands. This session shows you how to implement a customization methodology in your vertical market application that keeps your standard code independent from your custom code, yet have the two code bases play nice together.
The meeting location is Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. Note that the Oreland offramp from PA 309 Southbound has been permanently closed. The easiest way to reach the meeting location from the PA Turnpike or 309 Southbound is to come through the Fort Washington Industrial Park.
Cathy Pountney is a five-time recipient of the Microsoft VFP MVP award and has been developing software for 26 years, many of which were as an independent consultant specializing in FoxPro. In 2001 she had the privilege of spending six months as a contractor onsite in Redmond with the Microsoft Fox Team. She now works for Memorial Business Systems writing software for the cemetery and funeral home industry. Cathy has spoken at many FoxPro conferences and user groups across the U.S. and Canada, written articles for various magazines, and her book, The Visual FoxPro Report Writer: Pushing it to the Limit and Beyond, is available from Hentzenwerke Publishing. You can contact Cathy at cathy@frontier2000.com, view her website at http://www.frontier2000.com, and view MBS’s website at www.mbs-intl.com.
Customizing Your Vertical Market App:
Writing a vertical market application can be very rewarding. You write one application, sell it numerous times, and sit back while the money rolls in. Well, that’s the theory anyway. The reality is that often times, new clients want to buy your software, as long as you can change this one little thing. Managing custom code for various clients within your application can easily turn into a nightmare as your client base expands. This session shows you how to implement a customization methodology in your vertical market application that keeps your standard code independent from your custom code, yet have the two code bases play nice together.
Monday, June 16, 2008
New meeting day--second Tuesday
To accommodate our hosts at Valley Forge Pension Management, and to try to accommodate more of our members, beginning with the August meeting, we'll meet on the second Tuesday of the month. So, our next few meeting dates are:
Wednesday, June 18 -- Marcia Akins (dinner provided)
Wednesday, July 16 -- Cathy Pountney (dinner provided)
Tuesday, August 12
Tuesday, September 9
The meeting starts at 7 PM, with bring-your-own dinner starting at 6:30 PM. We charge $5 per meeting.
Wednesday, June 18 -- Marcia Akins (dinner provided)
Wednesday, July 16 -- Cathy Pountney (dinner provided)
Tuesday, August 12
Tuesday, September 9
The meeting starts at 7 PM, with bring-your-own dinner starting at 6:30 PM. We charge $5 per meeting.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
June meeting--Marcia Akins on Using the API
Next week, we begin an exciting summer for our group. On Wednesday, June 18, Marcia Akins will present "Practical uses for the Windows API". Next month, on July 16, Cathy Pountney will present "Customizing Your Vertical Market App."
We'll provide dinner for both meetings. As usual, the meeting starts at 7, but dinner will begin at 6:30 PM. Please email tamar@tamargranor.com if you're planning to come for dinner for the June meeting, so we make sure to get enough food.
Location: Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. (Note: The Oreland offramp from PA 309 Southbound has been permanently closed. The easiest way to reach the meeting location from the PA Turnpike or 309 Southbound is to come through the Fort Washington Industrial Park.)
Marcia's session introduces Windows API programming for Visual FoxPro developers. She begins by reviewing what the API is and how to translates the examples that are often in Visual Basic or Visual C++ into good old Visual FoxPro syntax. She will then present several practical examples using Windows API functions to do things that cannot be accomplished using native Visual FoxPro commands. These examples include code to read the Windows Registry and retrieve user settings from the Control Panel, code to ensure that the screen is really locked when we must manipulate the appearance of ActiveX controls in our VFP forms, and much more.
Bio: Marcia Akins is an independent Consultant and software developer who for the past few years has worked primarily with Visual FoxPro and SQL Server. She and her husband, Andy Kramek own and operate Tightline Computers, Inc. from their home in Akron, Ohio. She has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional since 1999 and also has Microsoft Certified Professional qualifications for both Distributed and Desktop Applications in Visual FoxPro.
Marcia co-authored the Kitbox column in FoxTalk Magazine from November, 2001 through July of 2006. She and her husband, Andy, then wrote a regular column in The Advisor Guide to Microsoft Visual FoxPro database Development until the end of 2007. Their popular Kitbox column is now being published in FoxRockX magazine. Marcia's published work also includes several articles for both FoxPro Advisor and FoxTalk magazines as well as the very successful book "1001 Things You Wanted to Know About VFP" (Hentzenwerke publishing, 2000) and "MegaFox: 1002 Things You Wanted to Know About Extending VFP" (Hentzenwerke publishing, 2002).
Speaking engagements include SouthwestFox(Tempe, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007), OzFox(Sydney, Australia, July 2003), Visual FoxPro Devcon (Prague, Czech Republic, June 2002, 2005, 2007), Essential Fox (Kansas City, 2002, 2003, 2004), Conference to the Max (Holland, May 2000 and May 2002), Great Lakes Great Database Workshop (Milwaukee, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006), Advisor Devcon (San Diego, September 2001 and Fort Lauderdale, September 2002), German Devcon (Frankfurt, November 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007), as well as user group meetings in Europe and the U.S.
Web site: www.tightlinecomputers.com
We'll provide dinner for both meetings. As usual, the meeting starts at 7, but dinner will begin at 6:30 PM. Please email tamar@tamargranor.com if you're planning to come for dinner for the June meeting, so we make sure to get enough food.
Location: Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. (Note: The Oreland offramp from PA 309 Southbound has been permanently closed. The easiest way to reach the meeting location from the PA Turnpike or 309 Southbound is to come through the Fort Washington Industrial Park.)
Marcia's session introduces Windows API programming for Visual FoxPro developers. She begins by reviewing what the API is and how to translates the examples that are often in Visual Basic or Visual C++ into good old Visual FoxPro syntax. She will then present several practical examples using Windows API functions to do things that cannot be accomplished using native Visual FoxPro commands. These examples include code to read the Windows Registry and retrieve user settings from the Control Panel, code to ensure that the screen is really locked when we must manipulate the appearance of ActiveX controls in our VFP forms, and much more.
Bio: Marcia Akins is an independent Consultant and software developer who for the past few years has worked primarily with Visual FoxPro and SQL Server. She and her husband, Andy Kramek own and operate Tightline Computers, Inc. from their home in Akron, Ohio. She has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional since 1999 and also has Microsoft Certified Professional qualifications for both Distributed and Desktop Applications in Visual FoxPro.
Marcia co-authored the Kitbox column in FoxTalk Magazine from November, 2001 through July of 2006. She and her husband, Andy, then wrote a regular column in The Advisor Guide to Microsoft Visual FoxPro database Development until the end of 2007. Their popular Kitbox column is now being published in FoxRockX magazine. Marcia's published work also includes several articles for both FoxPro Advisor and FoxTalk magazines as well as the very successful book "1001 Things You Wanted to Know About VFP" (Hentzenwerke publishing, 2000) and "MegaFox: 1002 Things You Wanted to Know About Extending VFP" (Hentzenwerke publishing, 2002).
Speaking engagements include SouthwestFox(Tempe, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007), OzFox(Sydney, Australia, July 2003), Visual FoxPro Devcon (Prague, Czech Republic, June 2002, 2005, 2007), Essential Fox (Kansas City, 2002, 2003, 2004), Conference to the Max (Holland, May 2000 and May 2002), Great Lakes Great Database Workshop (Milwaukee, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006), Advisor Devcon (San Diego, September 2001 and Fort Lauderdale, September 2002), German Devcon (Frankfurt, November 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007), as well as user group meetings in Europe and the U.S.
Web site: www.tightlinecomputers.com
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Cathy Pountney coming in July
Summer '08 is going to be an exciting one for our Philly VFUG. Following Marcia Akins' visit on June 18, Cathy Pountney will speak at our July 16 meeting. Her topic is "Customizing Your Vertical Market App." Cathy, the author of "The Visual FoxPro Report Writer: Pushing it to the Limit and Beyond" (Hentzenwerke Publishing), spent six months contracting with the VFP team in Redmond in 2001.
We'll provide dinner at both the June and July meetings. So for $5, you get dinner and a chance to hear one of the leading lights in the VFP community.
We'll provide dinner at both the June and July meetings. So for $5, you get dinner and a chance to hear one of the leading lights in the VFP community.
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