Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"VFP and AJAX"
By Mike Feltman of F1 Technologies
Thursday October 12, 2006

*** NEW MEETING LOCATION ***
We are back to the Royal Oak Library!
222 E. Eleven Mile Rd.
Royal Oak, MI 48067
(see DAFUG Web site for map)

- VFP and AJAX - Mike Feltman of F1 Technologies

One of the hottest buzzwords in the industry today is AJAX. In reality, AJAX is just a new name for good old DHTML or Dynamic HTML, and just a small subset of it at that. Recently sites like Google maps and gmail have helped to bring AJAX to the forefront. AJAX allows web developers to create rich-desktop like applications in the Browser by taking advantage of client-side events and the DOM (document object model) and by performing background communications with the web server to handle timely data retrieval and validation. With the wide variety of server side scripting tools available for it, its blazing fast database engine and its strong text handling capabilities VFP can be a strong player in the AJAX arena.

Attendees will learn how to:
1. Use AJAX to make asynchronous background calls to retrieve data.
2. Use JavaScript to update elements of web pages without redrawing the entire page.
3. Teach you how to build fast interactive web applications with all of the bells and whistles.
- Open discussion and the other normal chatter of tips and tricks.
- Anything else people want to talk about.


Hope to see you there.
More DAFUG details at http://www.dafug.org

Agenda:
6:00 - 8:00 Presentation
8:00 - Food and FoxPro discussion

Future Planned DAFUG Meetings and Speakers:
October 12, 2006 - VFP & AJAX
November 9, 2006 - TBD
December 14, 2006 - VirtualPC vs VMWare

DAFUG meets on the third Thursday of the month (except for July). Free parking is available in farmers market parking lot.

Admission to DAFUG meetings will be granted free to anyone for 1 (one) meeting. After that you must either join the group (at the low cost of $30 a year, $15 for a half year) or you will be asked to pay $5 per meeting you attend. The $5 will grant you admission but no other rights or privileges of membership.

Rick Schummer, Secretary for DAFUG