Steve certainly got the Wow! of the evening with a Universal Decorator Pattern using a clever feature of VFP. Interfaces can be kept in synch without having to constantly Xerox(ô) the properties and methods from the target object to its Decorators. Damn clever! Made it worth my trip to the meeting!
The Agenda, briefly:
Introduction by Curtis Jones, CTO of NetLearning.
Ted Roche, 10 minutes on what happened at DevCon - see links here
FoxPro Idiomatic Patterns: Set Path To idiom, Last Copy Wins idiom
Great Stuff! I suspect the only person who's heard the Patterns session more than me is Steve, and I pick up a new idea or subtlety every time.
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Apple harvest yields computers, OS. The company says its new G5 machines are faster than any Windows-based PC on the market, but some are questioning that claim. Also: Putting a price on Panther, Apple's new operating system. [CNET News.com]
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Blogging live from Knoxville! Demoing RSS, XML, Visual FoxPro's CursorToXML() and XMLToCursor() as well as scraping HTML using the Win32 API and consuming Web Services using VFP. Summarized the state of RSS 0.9, 1.0, 2.0 and showed how VFP could produce compliant RSS XML feeds, like the 2.0 XML feeds at http://www.tedroche.com/RSSFeeds.html. The Task Pane manager for Web Services was handy for a speedy demo of Web Services.
First meeting of the East Tennessee FoxPro User Group (http://www.etfug.org) is a great success, with 18 folks attending. I presented RSS and Steven Black did a short presentation on "Marketing in a niche market" and a longer presentation of "Advanced Design Patterns.
