We chose to meet on Saturdays because we have people that drive long distances to get to us. Some people are an hour away, others 3 hours, and some even more than that. We have tossed around meeting on weekdays several times, but we always chose to stay on Saturday because the out-of-downers wouldn't be able to come if it was a weekday. Personally, I'd prefer a weekday and maybe if we did that, what we lose in out-of-towners we would gain in people that are too busy on weekends. But we'll never know because we have always met on weekends. We have sent out surveys to our mailing list and it seems to come back 50/50.
>How have Saturday meetings been working for your group? I don't think I have heard of another group doing that (they probably do and I just don't know it) so am interested to find out. I know many groups (not just VFP ones) struggle to find a good meeting time.
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>>Our March meeting is taking place on Saturday, March 8th, at 10:00 am.
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>>Please note a change in location for the March meeting (see our website for more information (
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>>Personalizing VFP Applications by Jay van Santen
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>>Personalizing applications can be a challenge. If multiple customers use an application, it is important for the developer to maintain application and custom code as separate code bases. The presentation will illustrate different mechanisms for doing so, with multiple examples of increasing sophistication. Jay will provide code samples in this interactive session. This will be a fun opportunity to explore object oriented design and may provide a useful tool in your programming toolbox.
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>>Jay van Santen has been a Fox developer for the past 18 years. He has developed his own applications and worked on a number of major vertical market applications at corporations based in Indianapolis. He is past president of the Indianapolis FoxPro SIG. In the literary world, he was a contributing author to VFP 3.0 Special Edition published by Que. Currently, he is consulting with manufacturing companies on ERP technology. A new business venture -- a web enterprise -- will launch in 2008.
