Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 01:12:27 -0500 From: Arnold Bilansky <71533.1031@compuserve.com> Subject: Meeting The Greater Boston FoxPro User Group meets at 7:00pm this Wednesday, January 27, at Microsoft, 6th floor, 230 Third Ave., Waltham. See presentations from members of our group. VFP Books --------- The following books from Hentzenwerke Publishing are currently shipping Effective Techniques for Application Development with Visual FoxPro 6.0 by Jim Booth & Steve Sawyer Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0 by Tamar E. Granor, Ted Roche (This book is actually being reprinted. Order by Feb. 15 to avoid the price increase.) Other books from Hentzenwerke are at the printer or ready to be released shortly. Check out www.hentzenwerke.com for details. Also in bookstore are: Special Edition Using Visual FoxPro 6 by Menachem Bazian et. al. (Que) Visual Foxpro 6 Enterprise Development; Rod Paddock, et al (Prima Press) The above books are also available at www.amazon.com. FoxTeach -------- FoxTeach, The Visual FoxPro Developer's Conference April 10,11,12, 1999, Toronto, Canada. The sixth FoxTeach, Visual FoxPro developer's conference takes place in Toronto, Canada on April 10, 11, 12, 1999 at the Delta Chelsea Inn. FoxTeach has been called "a topflight developer's conference" by Info Canada and is recognized as one of the world's best sources for the latest programming techniques on Visual FoxPro. The conference begins on the evening of April 10 with a welcoming reception and plenary session presented by Robert Green, Product Manager in the Developer Tools Marketing group at Microsoft. He'll discuss the direction of VFP and application development with Microsoft tools. The remainder of the conference will be devoted to specialized sessions presented by some of the world's best VFP developers. Sessions are categorized by difficulty level to address the needs of neophyte or seasoned developers. FoxTeach is proud to present many of the finest Visual FoxPro developers, authors, and consultants to share their knowledge with you. This year's speaker list includes: Steven Black, Jim Booth, Randy Brown, Markus Egger, Eldor Gemst, Robert Green, Doug Hennig, Whil Hentzen, Ken Levy, Rod Paddock, John Petersen, Ted Roche, Drew Speedie and Rick Strahl. The cost to attend FoxTeach is $749 CAN / $517 US if registering before March 12, 1999 or $799 CAN / $551 US thereafter. The conference fee includes: session notes, source code, evaluation software from third party vendors, product discounts and promotional items, opening reception, lunches and refreshment breaks. Attendees receive materials from all sessions even though it's impossible to attend all of them. FoxTeach is presented by The Matison Consulting Group and sponsored by Microsoft Canada, Object Arts, Hentzenwerke, GE Capital Consulting, Steven Black Consulting, Stonefield Systems, Micromega Systems, F1 Technologies, West Wind Connection, and The Universal Thread.