HAl-PC (Houston) VFP SIG and Chicago FUDG to Audio Broadcast Simultaneously
on Tuesday, April 13th.
In a World-History-Making-Event (well at least for VFP History, anyway) Carl
Karsten of PersonnelWare [
http://www.personnelware.com/ ] will be
broadcasting *LIVE* TWO Visual FoxPro User Group Meetings AT THE SAME TIME.
For More Info on how to make the connection, see here:
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~StreamingMeetingAudio~VFPIf you have any questions during the presentation times to ask of the
presenters,
log into the UniversalThread IRC Server at:
irc.levelextreme.com , channel #VisualFoxPro with your favorite IRC
application.
Chicago Start Time: 17:30 CST
Houston Start Time: 18:00 CST
Detailed Meetings Info Below:
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HAL-PC VFP SIG Meeting Details:
http://www.hal-pc.org/~jpc/HAL-PC/foxmain.htmlMeeting information for Tuesday April 13th, 2004 at HAL-PC Headquarters:
Feature presentations:
Dan Leclaire: VFP and The Web, Internet Explorer objects - Bot-Building with
VFP and IE Automation
Ed Hardin: Promoting your vertical market application - Introduction to the
Association of Shareware Professionals
Scott Beall: Working VFP applications - Another atypical VFP program
Past Meeting Agenda
For their incredible presentations, we would like to thank our March
Speakers:
Claudio Lassala: Comparing OOP in VFP to OOP in .NET - Advanced (PART 2)
Rich Monroe: VFP8 New Features:
Lewis Keim: Build a Major Vertical Market app in two weeks using Excel&
Outlook COM...
Scott Beall: Outrageous VFP Applications: Thinking Outside the Box
Current Meeting Agenda
Tuesday April 13th, 2004 6:00 PM
Beginning Lewis Keim Jabberwocky
6:00 - 6:10 PM: Mayhem reduction Question and Answer session
6:10 - 6:25 PM: Open
6:25 - 6:50 PM: Ed Hardin: Promoting your vertical market application -
Introduction to the Association of Shareware Professionals: Ed Hardin has a
successful vertical market application written in VFP. In order to better
market it and take advantage of different resources available to developers,
he became a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals. Ed shares
some of the options available to you if you think you might have something
you could sell. If you don't think that you have anything you could sell, Ed
shares some about the amazing and often simple applications that people have
become successful at selling as Shareware. It is amazing to hear of the
different things that people are marketing and making good money off of.
This is a fascinating subject for anyone who has ever wondered if you could
make money selling small vertical market applications.
6:50 - 7:15 PM: Scott Beall: Working VFP applications - Another atypical VFP
program: Scott shows a nifty crossword puzzle program. Written entirely in
VFP it can be used to help kids or adults learn words and vocabulary. Scott
built it for his wife and kids to help them in some educational tasks. It
allows you to specify the desired vocabulary and the clues and it will built
a working crossword puzzle. This app reminds me of the kind of things I saw
people selling at the Association of Shareware Professionals.
BREAK 7:15 PM till 7:40 PM
7:15- 7:25 Announcements by Lewis Keim
Advanced Rich Monroe Jabberwocky
7:25 - 8:40: Dan LeClaire: VFP and The Web, Internet Explorer objects -
Bot-Building with VFP and IE Automation: Need to extract data from a web
page? Cutting, pasting, and string parsing seem kind of tedious to you? With
objects available in Internet Explorer, you can build your own "bot" that
gets the data you need. In this session, we will explore some of the objects
available in IE, their properties, events, and methods, and how you can
construct your own app to automatically capture data from a web site.
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Chicago FPUG
C# for VFP programmers / Imaging
Date: 04/13/2004
53 West Jackson, Suite 826
Time: 5:30 P.M.
http://www.chicagofudg.com/Description: Pat Murtaugh couldn't leave his programmer's mind at the
office. When the youth soccer team that he coaches, complained about
everyone not getting equal playing time, Pat wrote a timer program to
moniter each kid's time on the field.
To get it running on an IPOD, he converted a Fox Pro prototype to C Sharp.
Come to our April meeting to see how a simple C # program works, how it
compares with VFP, and how it can be further developed. Pat's not going
overpower us with a slide show filled with a million things that you've
never seen before.
He's going step by step through a thought process -- including missteps,
improving on "cut and paste
inheritance", and commentary comparing Fox with C Sharp. The second act of
the meeting isn't decided yet. Make your bid to show us something. If it
complements Pat's forray into the Dot Net world, good. If we shine a light
on another corner of the programmer's puzzle, that's good too.
Our after-meeting social sessions at Cavanaugh's on the 1st Floor of the
Monadnock are a great chance
for tall tales, hyperbole, couldas and shouldas, inking 6 figure contracts,
venting frustration against
large software companies, intentions to to attend far away conferences,
poorly expressed algorithms, and
visons of future glory.
Next Meeting: April 13th 5:30, 53 W. Jackson. Suite 826.
The dues checks have begun coming in! Send $60 to Datamark Corp 7161 N
Cicero, Suite 205 Lincolnwood, IL 60712. Meetings are Free. If we have an
out-of-town guest, we might ask for contributions from attendees who aren't
paying members.
