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| How Craig Boyd Makes Me a Hero! (German DevCon) Craig Boyd is one of the most generous developers in the Fox Community.
Over the years his blog has been the source of many posts where he flat out delivers some cool FLL file that extends the functionality of a VFP application,
or straight VFP code with numerous benefits, and in turn makes me look like a hero to my customers. Ever have a customer ask you to provide a feature where compressing a file is best handled with the ZIP format? Do you have users who want automated email and you are tired of battling Outlook security, but MAPI is the easiest way to get email through their email system? How about encrypting information in a table, or encrypting an entire file in your secure customer applications? Need to use FTP, SFTP, or other Web interactions to satisfy even the finickiest customer situations? Run up against the not-so-new Excel 2007 XLSX format and find it breaks your modules where previous versions of Excel worked fine? Ever wished for a smart grid that made it easier to develop data entry grids and made it so it is less painful to implement? Yeah, me too. This session is going to go through the best of the best of Craig's FLLs and other tools, show you how what they do, and how simple it is to look like a hero too.
Mocking Your Customer (SWFox) In the past I have found that customers like to change their mind about what they want. This normally happens once they see the implemention of what they asked for during the first round of requirements discussion. Developers work hard to put together the user interface using the designers, but it is relatively expensive to the customer base if it gets thrown away. Sure there are times when we hit the nail on the head, but normally I find the real solution does not shine until the customer "spits on it." Balsamiq Mockups is a designer that lets developers and non-developers alike build wireframes/mockups. These are blueprints for how the application user interface can look or work. Developers and users can sit down and flow through the application before hours of development are completed. Balsamiq Mockups facilitates the creation of the wireframes with lots of controls developers are using from the toolboxes provided in the native application designers. You will learn:
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| Annual Elections / Budget / What's Next?
Currently held positions (2010): President: Jody Meyer Secretary: Cathy Pountney Treasurer: Mike Potjer Webmaster: Jody Meyer |
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| Annual Elections - 2009 elected positions were:
President: Jody Meyer Vice President: Cathy Pountney Secretary: Mike Timpe Treasurer: Mike Potjer Webmaster: Jody Meyer Also, Discussed: Budget / What's Next? |
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| Cursor Adaptors & PEM Editor | ||
Open Spaces:
Love these sessions. This is an awesome group of people. We always walk away with some great ideas and new found knowledge! |
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1) VFP and MySQL: Case Study for Remote Data For many years Visual FoxPro developers have found backend databases to be a compelling alternative to the DBF data store.
There are many good reasons to move to a backend database. The business model of distributed locations and facilities is not uncommon. Because
of the way Visual FoxPro caches tables and indexes, DBF data does not scale well over the WAN, pushing people to a backend data store. Another
business concern is the security of the DBF files and easy access to anyone with network/workstation access to the folder where they are stored.
Businesses cannot afford to have their competitive advantage walk out the door on a thumb drive. Then there is the ever unpopular technical
limitation of the two gigabyte table size limit. You will learn:
2) Resume and Other Job Related Topics. |
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| Prefilling PDF Forms with Data Sending a Visual FoxPro report to a PDF file is a wonderful thing. It makes it easy to attach to emails and saves on paper. It's one of the green things to do. But, like always, customers want to take it a step further. They want to have their PDF forms prefilled with their data from their application. It makes sense too. It saves time, ensures accuracy and there is no need to print the PDF to fill it in. It's another green thing to do. Well, they can have that. I would like to show you how. | ||
| SQL Server Log Shipping in the Cloud - Log Shipping is an automated process that backs
up a database and restores a standby copy on a secondary server. A key feature to Log Shipping is that it
uses transaction log backups, which can be much smaller and faster than full backups, to keep the servers
in synch. Frank will demonstrate how to implement Log Shipping using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Creating Gadgets in Windows Vista & Windows 7 - Desktop Gadgets, such as clocks and weather controls, are those cool little mini-apps you can add to your Windows desktop. Ever want to create your own but figured they were probably too complicated? Paul will take us on a quick tour of what is involved in creating and deploying our own custom gadgets – you’ll be surprised by how easy it is to get started. We’ll build a real “business” gadget to show you what’s involved. |
& Paul Mrozowski both of White Light Computing |
* Meeting is not our normal 2nd Saturday - Please check your calendar