March
Re-Cap:
March 11,
2006
Main
Presentation
Cathy Pountney gave her presentation on “Best Practices
for Project Management”. Cathy presented many helpful ideas and tools to
help keep the development process on track, trace flows of reported bugs and
errors and utilize data collected in the various processes to better predict
future process development time. I can vouch that Cathy does practice what
she preaches. Although this session was compressed into one session, it
easily could have been discussed for hours. Great topic Cathy!
Information regarding Cathy’s topic will be available after the presentation at
GLGDW.
This is a link to the site Cathy mentioned for
downloading templates and checklists for project management and process
improvement: http://www.processimpact.com/goodies.shtml
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
-
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
Miscellaneous
Cathy would like our opinions on obtaining Craig Boyd
for an all day Saturday meeting.
Rick Schummer’s View
Editor is available. http://www.whitelightcomputing.com/prodvieweditorpro.htm
This is a replacement for the native Visual FoxPro View
Designer.
Conferences
Here’s a list of 2006
conferences:
Ø
Great Lakes Great
Database Workshop,
Ø
DevTeach,
Ø
Advisor Visual FoxPro
DevCon 2006,
Ø
Southwest Fox,
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hodgsons@optimalinternet.com
From:
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 3:57
PM
To:
Cc: Cathy Pountney
Subject: RE: February GRAFUG meeting
Recap
Whoops, here’s
February, now all I need is March
From:
Sent: Friday, February 24,
2006 10:35 AM
To:
Subject: February GRAFUG meeting
Recap
February 2006
GRAFUG meeting recap
February 11,
2006
Main
Presentation
Miscellaneous
Ø
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:
Ø
A new conference is
emerging, FoxForward. The conference is in
Ø
Penguincon is in
http://www.penguicon.org/
For $35, it’s a cheap way to indulge your geek
side…<grin>.
Ø
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
Conferences
Here’s a list of 2006
conferences:
Ø
Great Lakes Great
Database Workshop,
Ø
DevTeach,
Ø
Advisor Visual FoxPro
DevCon 2006,
Ø
Southwest Fox,
Next
Meeting
The next meeting is March 11, 2006.
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
-
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
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