The Philadelphia VFP User Group will meet this Wednesday, May 16 at 7 PM at Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. As always, feel free to bring something to eat and arrive as early at 6:30 for discussion and dinner.

We have a double dose this month. Members Craig Benson and Bob Pierce will present.

Speaker: Craig Benson

Bio: Co-Founder and Director of Development of TIW Technology.
Established in 1983, TIW has developed the WorkShop manufacturing (1990) and ALERE accounting (2002) products. These mid-range VFP products are sold through a network of third party resellers. The TIW products feature a framework architected to provide a versatile feature set along with a extensible third party development environment.

Prior experience includes real-time process control and data acquisition software development for Quadrex/FLIC Computer Systems, Princeton, NJ.
Project work included Chemical, Petro- Chemical and Nuclear Utility applications.


Topic: TIW Report Object - Architecture and Versatility

TIW Technology is the author of three FoxPro based application (ALERE, ShopLink, and WorkShop). Each of these products use a common report object. The session will examine the architecture of this highly configurable shared object. This report model supports more than 200 varied reports across the three products. These reports range from simple single table lists to complex multi-table compilations.
Among these areas discussed will be the run-time generation of user specific report options, integration of custom code, generic report templates, and user hooks.


Speaker: Robert Pierce

Robert Pierce is currently the Manager of Information Services and senior developer at Smooth-On Inc., a rubber and plastics manufacturing company located in Easton, PA. With 23 years of custom Fox programming experience; he has been a consultant, a contract programmer, and part of the TIW development team.


Topic: VFP IN THE WAREHOUSE

Extending VFP to the warehouse using a WIFI XP Tablet PC We have recently integrated a pocketbook sized Tablet PC to allow access to live data using VFP. Although this project was easy to design there are some interesting considerations and tradeoff's. I believe this technique will be very practical on the next generation PDA's and other portable devices. East to follow 'minimalist' VFP OOP design will have interest to varying skill levels.

Mark June 20th for the return of Kevin Goff, practicing his SouthWest Fox 2007 session "T-SQL 2005"

Hope to see you tomorrow.

Tamar