Hi All,
The December 2004 GRAFUG meeting will be held NEXT Saturday, December 11, 2004, from 10:00AM to 12:00PM. Notice that I said “NEXT” Saturday and not “THIS” Saturday. I’m sending the reminder out a little early this month because we have a special speaker and we’d like to have as many people as possible attend. We are also having officer elections so make sure your voice is heard by voting. In addition, and this might be the most important thing, Mike Timpe has volunteered to bring homemade muffins to the meeting!!
Main Presentation:
I’m happy to announce that Bill Anderson, president of the L.A. Fox User Group, will be traveling to Grand Rapids to make the following presentation:
** Using Software Design Patterns **
All well structured object oriented architectures are full of patterns. Focusing on these common patterns (Design Patterns) during a system's development can yield an architecture that is smaller, simpler, and far more understandable than if these patterns are ignored. Using these Design Patterns in your development can provide a significant maintenance advantage during an application's lifespan. Like a Japanese haiku (a three line poem consisting of exactly 17 syllables), Design Patterns have a simple construction, but also can be rather hard to fathom.
In this session Bill will outline the most common Design Patterns and use familiar Visual FoxPro terminology to illustrate each Pattern. While Design Patterns aren't specific to any software development language, attendees should be familiar with Visual FoxPro terminology and the principles of object orientation.
Officer Elections:
Annual officer elections will be held at the December meeting. Not all the incumbents are willing to continue with their current posts so we are forced to make some changes. If anyone would like to volunteer for a position, please let us know!! Remember, this group is for the benefit of all and needs everyone’s support. Note: I have not heard from Martha Kroll whether she is willing to continue with any of her posts.
Incumbents
President: Mike Potjer
Vice President: Martha Kroll
Secretary: Cathy Pountney
Treasurer: Mike Potjer
Webmaster: Martha Kroll
Candidates
President: Cathy Pountney
Vice President: Jody Meyer
Secretary: Cathy Pountney
Treasurer: Mike Potjer
Webmaster: Cathy Pountney
Only paid members are allowed to vote so if your membership has expired, you must renew at the meeting. If you will be absent from the meeting, but would like to vote, send me an email with your votes and I’ll be sure to submit them during the election.
Our meetings are held at:
Optimal Solutions, Inc.
3101 Prairie SW
Grandville, MI 49418
Phone: 616-281-6040
Directions: (From 28th Street)
Go to Ivanrest and turn south
Go to Prairie (second light) and turn left
Optimal Solutions is the 4th driveway on the left
Note to anyone traveling from the east side of the state – the new M-6 highway is now open. It connects I-96 on the east side of Grand Rapids to I-196 on the west side of Grand Rapids. If you are traveling from Lansing, you can take M-6 west and get off on the Wilson Street exit. Take Wilson Street north to Prairie and turn right. Continue east on Prairie to Optimal Solutions.
For links to a map, please refer to the website:
http://www.GRAFUG.com For other questions, contact me at pountneyc@optimalinternet.com
I hope you find this information helpful, and if you have any comments, please send them to me.
Cathy Pountney
GRAFUG Secretary
