Alex
Sorry I did not replay sooner, to many meetings!
That's thye support I need, I always felt it would benefit even a one person shop. I am going to use your comments as an argument to my boss, many thanks


>>The training angle is a good idea. That would appeal to State Agency ideas. If they can train 3 people for the price of one, great.
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>>So far Ive got:
>>Pick sessions that relate directly to our current/future projects
>>Offer to give training sessions on return
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>>One thing I did not see for sessions was something on the development environment. My boss makes use include all classes controls in each project. When we have some 100 plus projects at 2meg of space for all classes/controls used in development, its major bloat. She is adament against using a common class library for the programmers (all of 2). Don't even mention SourceSafe. she thinks it is way to complicated for our small? shop. I heard that it didn't play well with VFP 8. Our boss is beginning to sound like a dinosaur. Don't get me wrong, she lets us do our job without hovering or leaning. Its one of the best places I have worked. She just needs to come into the 21st century. Thats what makes it hard to come up with enough sell to get to go to conferences.
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>Source Safe works very well. I use it all the time, and in my shop I'm it. VSS is not only used for multi-developer shops, to avoid trampling on each other's source code, but also works well for one developer to keep incremental backups of program changes. It protects you against yourself!
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>As for the development environment, what you need is a framework. The best advantage of OOP is reuse. Once you have a set of common, reusable routines, you have the start of a framework. Using either a home-made or commercial one is a great advantage and a major component of quality software and a productive environment.
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>Good luck!