The next meeting of the Philadelphia VFP User Group will take place on Wednesday, April 18 at 7 PM at the office of Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. As usual, feel free to bring something to eat and arrive as early as 6:30.

Topic: Best Practices for User Interfaces
The user interface is your application's appearance to the world. Throwing it together as an afterthought is like putting on the first clothes you grab from your closet. In both cases, the result may or may not look good and may or may not be appropriate to the occasion.

This session will start from the top and dig down into the mysteries of designing the interaction and interface of an application. After discussing why user interfaces matter, it will provide best practices for both the design and implementation stages.

Speaker: Tamar E. Granor
Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., is the owner of Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC. She has developed and enhanced numerous FoxPro and 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. She is currently the magazine's Technical Editor and co-author of the popular Advisor Answers column.

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: Real-World Data Solutions for VFP and What’s New in 9: Visual FoxPro’s Latest Hits. Her books are available from Hentzenwerke Publishing (www.hentzenwerke.com).

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. She served as Technical Content Manager for the 1997-1999 Visual FoxPro DevCons and was part of the coordination team for the Visual FoxPro Excellence Awards.