I can't help but be reminded of one of my favorite FoxPro anecdotes. On 9/11 DevCon was going on in San Diego. All air traffic was shut down so Whil Hentzen, Steve Sawyer, and a couple of others rented a van and drove back to the upper midwest. I think Rick Schummer was one of them but can't swear to it. Steve had a router in his suitcase and they set up a "van LAN," sending emails back and forth. ("Congratulations, gentlemen, you are now officially welcomed to the geekhood"). Whil said, "The scary thing was Steve had a router in his suitcase."

>Hi Tuvia,
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>that's exactly what I plan to do -- that's what I meant by Access point with the cloudserver on my laptop. Thanks for the tip.
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>The only question I have is whether I should bring a router and bring up 2 access points: how has that worked out for you, in terms of the number of connections one access point can handle?
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>thanks,
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>Hank
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>>Hank,
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>>My experience has been that it is not a good idea to count on good Internet connections from the presentation rooms. One year there was a problem with that area, and they fixed it, but the pre-con sessions had intermittent issues.
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>>This in no way is a knock on the hotel or staff, which are great. Just that if there is an issue, they will fix it, but you will be moving on, so if a connected piece is integral to your presentation, think about having a backup plan.
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>>For my session -- which is doing everthing you described but with VFP - I have a backup plan of a local webserver on my laptop. Only one time did I ever have to use that, but it certainly was better than stopping the session for 30 minutes!
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>>>>>>In case you hadn't noticed FoxPro isn't exactly a shining beacon of fresh new progress.
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>>>>Speak for yourself. ;-)
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>>>>FWIW, IMHO VFP is a rational choice in 2013 for any customer who may need stuff installed on older machines with 1gb RAM and a 500K image of a pink dragon as their wallpaper, or onto a new minimalist low power system, or similar. A more rational technical decision would be Delphi or C++, both of which have the same challenges in 2013, including difficulty finding capable/available developers.
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>>>>Our real problem is that grandpa box vendors have cheerfully assumed that churn will last forever and that if they build it, the punters will continue queuing to buy- but the MS experience with its two most recent OS (W8 and WP) confirms that those days are over. My current notebook deliberately is a machine that hopefully will last me until I swap for a version of Google Glass in a year or three. Meantime when people do buy, it's more likely to be an updated Android smartphone than a slate or other grandpa box.
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>>>>If you accept that, then Lianja takes on great new importance for anybody who sees value in VFP code and likes the thought of "fresh new progress." Hank Fay is giving presentations about Lianja at SWFox, I'll be going to those.
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>>>Oh geez, that means I'll have to practice after all... But it'll be worth it. :)
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>>>Here's the "Moving to Mobile" session:
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>>>"This is a Lianja app I wrote. You can see it's a desktop app, and does the usual things {show the usual things}."
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>>>"Here, I'm deploying it to the CloudServer I've set up on my laptop, and which you will be able to access from the access point I'm running {show deployment}"
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>>>"OK, you can access it now {provide access information}."
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>>>"Any questions? {big grin}"
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>>>Having gotten everyone's attention, I'll pick it apart and show the design and coding decisions I made that allow it to run both places, unaltered.
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>>>I'll also have the app up on my VPS ($10/mo, 2 GB of ram, 4 cores -- although I may splurge another $10/mo to double the specs), just to show how it performs over the real internet on high performance hardware. :)
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>>>Seriously, I'm glad you're going to be there: it's about time we met!
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>>>Hank