Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:07:19 -0400 From: Arnold Bilansky <71533.1031@compuserve.com> Subject: [Foxpro] Free Book! at Wed. VFP Meeting Please share this information with your colleagues. Don't pass up the opportunity for a free advanced copy of Les Pinters book on VB.Net and VFP at next Wednesday's FoxPro User Group meeting. *** Contents *** *** 1) Wednesday, August 28: 6 - 7 PM: Application Development Strategies "Frameworks: Build or Buy?" *** 2) Wednesday, August 28: 7 - 9 PM: Main Meeting Agenda Les Pinter: "Getting ready for VB.NET: Building Disconnected Recordset apps in VFP" *** 3) Boston User groups Megameeting III *** 4) New Horizons User Group Discount *** 5) Universal Thread Premier Membership door prize $135 CDN *** 6) O'Reilly Books & Conference User Group Discount *** 7) New Riders Book User Group Discount *** 8) Early Registration For WhilFest (GLGDW 2002) Extended *** 9) VFP Bootcamp *** 10) Essential Fox 2003 Announced The Greater Boston FoxPro Users Group meets the fourth Wednesday of every month at Microsoft's Waltham-Weston Offices from 6 PM until 9 PM. Directions and more information are available at - note that this is a new location for the website. Go to Bob Davis, former CEO of Lycos and Terra Lycos. "Street Smart Lessons from the Front Lines of Business." In addition, a number of copies of Bob's recent book "Speed is Life" will be given out to attendees, and Bob will be available for a book-signing following the meeting. -->Steve Melanson, President of Northeast DataVault (formerly USDataCenters, site of last year's MegaMeeting II). "The State of Internet Data Centers and Security Post-9/11." ANYTHING ELSE? After the presentations, all attendees will be invited to browse tables that every user group will have set up, in addition to tables for our sponsors. This will be your opportunity to grab some great information, do some serious networking, and discover what the other user groups can offer to you. Door prizes are up for the winning at MegaMeeting-III. Light refreshments will be served. There is a nominal $8/person admission if you've pre-registered. Walks-ins are also welcome, but the admission is $10/person. The pre-registration form is available at http://www.BostonUserGroups.com/MegaMeeting. ************************************************************************** *** 4) New Horizons User Group Discount ************************************************************************** New Horizons Computer Learning Centers is offering the VBLearn User Group a 20% discount across the board on all training that they offer. They are also currently holding some free seminars on .net. Visit http://www.nhboston.com for a listing of schedules and content. To register and receive the 20% discount you must contact: Richard May, Account Executive, CIW Sales Specialist New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, Direct: 781-939-9548 Fax: 781-229-9552 Email: rmay@nhboston.com Let him know that you are a member of our VBLearn user group. ************************************************************************** *** 5) Universal Thread Premier Membership door prize $135 CDN ************************************************************************** The Universal Thread has released a special promotion for user groups until the end of this year. We are working out the details with the UT and hope to be able to offer "a one year Premier Universal Thread membership" as a door prize for this month's meeting. A one year PUTM has a value of 135.00$ CDN. This constitutes a great prize for developers as the Universal Thread offers a great technical support. ************************************************************************** *** 6) O'Reilly Books & Conference User Group Discount ************************************************************************** O'Reilly USER GROUP BOOK DISCOUNTS Your group members are entitled to a 20% discount on O'Reilly books purchased directly from O'Reilly. The discount your members should use is DSUG. They may place an order online at www.oreilly.com or by calling 800-998-9938. Your members are also entitled to a 20% discount on O'Reilly conferences and tutorials. Other special discount offers may also be forwarded to your group from time to time. ************************************************************************** *** 7) New Riders Book User Group Discount ************************************************************************** New Riders USER GROUP BOOK DISCOUNTS Now that we can sell direct from the New Riders web site, we've created a wonderful discount option for user groups. It opens up our ENTIRE lineup of books to you and provides a 20% discount off our already discounted prices. Instructions follow for buying from www.newriders.com with your UG coupon code. This discount SHOULD BE SHARED WITH YOUR USER GROUP. Log on to www.newriders.com and complete your shopping. At checkout, enter coupon code is NRUZERZ. The coupon is not case-sensitive as nruzerz works too. ************************************************************************** *** 8) Early Registration For WhilFest (GLGDW 2002) Extended ************************************************************************** Ken Levy, Microsoft Visual FoxPro Product Manager, will be presenting the opening keynote at GLGDW 2002 with VFP 8.0 as the main topic. Since some of you might still be the fence about registering, I figured that this news might persuade you to go ahead and take advantage of a ten day extension of the early bird registration deadline. Register by Friday, August 30 for only $395! The registration form - yes, one of those old fashioned kind that you download and print out and email, fax or snail mail back in ('how quaint', they say) is also available here: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/glgdw/zglgdw.htm GLGDW 2001 was voted the best conference of the year by the Universal Thread membership. GLGDW '02 will feature over 20 internationally recognized Visual FoxPro and software development experts presenting over 40 different sessions on the latest versions of Visual FoxPro and related areas. Pick from these tracks: - Core Visual FoxPro - Data and SQL Server - Connecting VFP with the Outside World - .NET and Web Development - Computer Consulting Need to get up to speed quickly with an in-depth session on a specific topic? Attend one of our three-hour, pre-conference sessions on Sunday morning. Only $95, and includes refreshment break and lunch.  - Introduction to Visual FoxPro (Roche) - The Visual FoxPro Report Writer Inside and Out (Pountney) - Migrating Your VFP App to Client-Server (LeClair) - The .NET Framework for VFP Developers (McNeish) And don't forget about the 2002 Visual FoxPro Tips, Tricks and Traps World Championships. People are already starting to register. Questions? Comments? Let me know: mailto:whil@hentzenwerke.com And remember, Fox is Magic! Whil Hentzen Hentzenwerke Publishing ************************************************************************** *** 9) VFP Bootcamp ************************************************************************** Give us 3 days, we'll do the rest! -The July 22-24, 2002 VFP Boot Camp was filled in 18 days! -The August 26-28, 2002 VFP Boot Camp was filled in 12 days! -Only 12 of 16 seats remain for our highly acclaimed VFP Boot Camp, September 30- October 2, 2002 in Kansas City. www.visionds.com/training.asp -For a course description, visit http://www.visionds.com/vfpbootcamp.htm. -Need help with your VFP project? Vision Data Solutions Inc. (www.visionds.com) has a talented software consulting staff ready to help you with your VFP (or other development) project. http://www.visionds.com/tellus.asp. -The VFP boot camp held at the Essential Fox Conference 2002 (www.essentialfox.com) generated the following comments. Call us today while seats remain at 888-904-7900 or email us at sales@vfpbootcamp.com. VFP Boot Camp Sales Team 17501 East U.S. 40, Suite. 218 Independence, MO 64055 816-350-7900 www.visionds.com Toll free: 888-904-7900 Fax: 816-373-3020 ************************************************************************** *** 10) Essential Fox 2003 Announced ************************************************************************** Essential Fox www.essentialfox.com, the only spring FoxPro conference in North America, will be held April 11 - 14, 2003 in Kansas City, Missouri. Essential Fox 2003 will have everything that made Essential Fox 2002 a success plus many more benefits including a .NET track, a Methodology track and new pre- and post-conference workshops to be announced over the next few months. www.essentialfox.com/workshops.htm Register for Essential Fox before January 16, 2003 and take advantage of the early-bird discount. If you attended Essential Fox 2002, take an additional $50 off! Register online at https://secure.visionds.com/essentialfox2003 or call toll free, 866-568-4459 now! ************************************************************************** The user group Web page is linked at http://www.bostonusergroups.com. Go to http://foxcentral.net for a FoxPro information clearinghouse. You can manage your subscription to this list (including subscribing or unsubscribing) by visiting http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/foxpro. _______________________________________________ Foxpro mailing list Foxpro@blu.org http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/foxpro