February 2006
GRAFUG meeting recap
February 11,
2006
Main
Presentation
Miscellaneous
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If you are interested in taking a
MS certification exam soon and think you might need to take the test more then
once, check out:
http://blogs.technet.com/nmercer/archive/2006/02/16/419694.aspx
Direct
link:
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A new conference is emerging,
FoxForward. The conference is in
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Penguincon is in
http://www.penguicon.org/
For $35, it’s a cheap way to indulge your geek
side…<grin>.
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Oak Leaf Enterprises is offering
online classes for .NET for Visual FoxPro Developers. For more
information, please check out (https://www.oakleafsd.com/index3.htm).
The training is on March 14-16, 2006,
11am-4pm Eastern Standard Time. This live, online training class is
taught by Kevin McNeish, the author of the book .NET for Visual FoxPro
Developers , a Microsoft
.NET MVP, and a frequent speaker at .NET conferences and user
groups.
Conferences
Here’s a list of 2006
conferences:
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Great Lakes Great Database
Workshop,
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DevTeach,
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Advisor Visual FoxPro DevCon 2006,
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Southwest Fox,
Next
Meeting
The next meeting is March 11, 2006. Cathy Pountney
will be giving a presentation on “Best Practices for Project
Management”.
Managing software development projects is a difficult
task that often fails for a variety of reasons. Requirements aren’t always
understood and communicated properly, developers aren’t always “team players”,
schedules are often unrealistic, lack of coding standards hinder consistency,
little or no testing is done, and implementations don’t go smoothly .. and
that’s assuming you made it to that far!
In this session you’ll learn
best practices to ensure a successful software development project,
including:
- How to effectively determine what you are building
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How to create an overall plan for building the application
- How to
schedule the project … and keep on schedule
- How to successfully build
the application
- How to effectively and thoroughly test the
application
- How to implement the final product
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Upcoming
Meetings
Remember to keep the second Saturday free for GRAFUG
over the next several months we have some great speakers lined up! I’m
excited, and I hope you are too. Rick Schummer will be speaking in April,
Andy Kramek will be speaking in May and Art Bergquist will be speaking in
June. Hope you all will be able to attend. Please check out our
website for more information.
If you too wish to volunteer to be a speaker for a
future meeting, information and a link for topic submission can be found on our
website: http://www.GRAFUG.org.
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GRAFUG Secretary
hodgsons@optimalinternet.com
The following is a forward of Rick
Bean’s email, but there were so many good links in it, I just had to forward
them on. (thanks Rick!!)
1) FoxTabs - http://www.vfpsolutionexplorer.com -
Checkout the "Using FoxTabs screen cast" link if you want to know what it's
about.
2) Project SednaX - http://www.sednax.com/ -You have to sign
up and be accepted, but it's worth it to see Craig Boyd and friends' plans for
VFP before
Sedna is really
available!
3) VFP Conversion - http://www.vfpconversion.com/ -
Techniques and advantages of converting VFP (at least partially)
to .NET.
4) The Speaker's Site (Dick J) - http://www.reallite.com/EZHome.htm -
You can download his demo code. (http://www.NecessaryOptions.com/)
also
checkout his web page demo of the
product if you don't want to download the code (http://www.necessaryoptions.com/C.htm -
hint, use the Next >> link)
5) API Viewer - http://www.news2news.com/vfp/index.php and
maybe more importantly http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?article=12&src=about -
If you really need Windows API functionality, you can't afford not to spend
$20.00!
6) Regular Expression
Highlights - http://www.mozilla.org/bugs/text-searching.html#regex%20basics
7) And I site I meant to share -
especially due to the Geek T-Shirt giveaway - http://www.computergear.com/codetshirts.html