Southwest Fox 2010
October 14-17, 2010 SanTan Elegante Conference & Reception Center/Legado Hotel Gilbert, AZ
Platinum Sponsors
Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC
Gold Sponsors
Friday, October 15, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, October 16, 11:30 a.m.
Servoy is a market leader in powerful hybrid (SaaS and on premises) software. As an application server and development platform, Servoy is an ideal tool for Visual FoxPro developers looking to Web-enable their applications and/or to offer multi-platform client/server applications. So from a single code-base you can deploy browser based and client/server applications. Servoy provides a powerful, productive, and dynamic data-centric programming environment and toolset that FoxPro developers are used to and can enjoy with Visual FoxPro. Today, more than 20,000 developers are working with the Servoy product suite. Companies like Symantec, Stanford University, Wells Fargo, Verizon, UCLA Hospital and many ISV's rely on Servoy for managing data and presenting it to their customers and employees through rich applications over the LAN, WAN and Internet connections. Visual FoxPro developers who have built and deployed Servoy applications appreciate the fact that Servoy is very easy to learn with support for taking DBF based Visual FoxPro applications to the web. Discover resources on Servoy for VFP developers at www.servoy.com/foxpro including a free download of our fully functional community edition of Servoy. Stop by our booth and ask for a free USB stick with software, documentation, whitepapers, tutorials, and be sure to attend our special demo-centric vendor session presented by Ken Levy. http://www.servoy.com/foxpro
Title: Extended VFP Application Data to a Mobile Device Presenter: Chris Franz, Systems Consultant Level: All Friday, October 15, 2:00 p.m. Saturday, October 16, 8:30 a.m.
Are your customers asking for mobile access to their VFP data? Do you need to start providing mobile access for a competitive edge? This session will cover how to extend your current VFP data to a mobile device. It will demonstrate how easy it is to allow concurrent DBF data access from your existing VFP application and a mobile device at the same time from virtually any mobile device using the IDE of your choice. There is no need to convert your data to allow DBF data access with mobile devices such as Blackberry, iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, etc. all while allowing you the freedom to write the mobile application of your choice. Come see how!
Title: Visual FoxPro and Xbase++, a Comparison Presenter: Steffen F. Pirsig Level: Beginner Friday, October 15, 8:30 a.m.
This session is for any Visual FoxPro developer who feels comfortable with the VFP language in general or has made a significant investment into the VFP language but doesn't want to abandon his/her existing knowledge, investments and of course the power of the language itself. If you are interested in seeing how the xBase language beyond Visual FoxPro has evolved, this session is a must see for you!
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This session is about Xbase++ as of today and is a perfect prerequisite for anybody attending the session about the "Visual Xbase++, the Next Generation Visual FoxPro".
Title: Visual Xbase++, the Next Generation Visual FoxPro Presenter: Steffen F. Pirsig Level: Beginner Sunday, October 17, 10:00 a.m.
In this session we will show for the first time how Alaska Software sees the future for Visual FoxPro developers. In 2008 and 2009, Alaska Software learned a lot about the VFP community's requirements and how the Visual FoxPro development tool is used. Since early 2010 a project team at Alaska Software started to work on the next-generation VFP tool-chain. Any VFP developer, looking for a way to continue with the existing knowledge and investments, should attend this session to learn more about our plans. It is recommended to those who have no idea about what Xbase++ is to attend the session "Visual FoxPro and Xbase++, a Comparison" as only then will the attendee really understand how far and beyond the product strategy of Alaska Software goes.
Alaska Software also wants to invite the VFP community to share its thoughts and actively criticize our strategy outline thereafter.
http://www.alaska-software.com/
Sunday, October 17, 11:30 a.m.
Foxpert software development and consulting offers its services to single developers and Fortune 100 companies alike. Whether it's Visual FoxPro, .NET, whether it's architecture, design, security, or just getting the project done, whether it's short term or long term, we can assist you with your software development business. For more information please visit http://www.foxpert.com.
We also offer two lines of products. Guineu (http://www.guineu.net) is the FoxPro runtime for .NET compatible platforms allowing Visual FoxPro developers to extend their services beyond what was possible before.
PC-AS is an established and long-trusted pharmacy software system for German pharmacies.
Foxpert is the exclusive world-wide distributor for Active FoxPro Pages (AFP 3.0), a product of BvL Bürosysteme GmbH in Berlin, Germany. We offer support, training, and custom development around AFP. Foxpert works closely together with BvL Bürosysteme GmbH to further develop and enhance the AFP product family.
Title: FoxInCloud Presenter: Thierry Nivelet Level: Beginner Friday, October 15, 10:00 a.m. Saturday, October 16, 10:00 a.m.
FoxInCloud is a Visual FoxPro layer that enables your existing application to run on the Web, while continuing to operate as today with the very same code base.
We shall present FoxInCloud founding principles: HTML generation, events capture and server-side processing by the VFP form code, user state management, and UI updates on HTML page.
We'll review scope of class and events support and play with the FoxInCloud adaptation assistant, a very handy IDE tool to identify and easily adapt your code. You'll even be able to try it yourself during the session.
We'll see how long it takes to adapt an application and how this work can mitigate with your normal evolution tasks. We'll also discuss how your client can slide from your existing "LAN" version to the "FoxInClouded" version.
No doubt you'll have a lot of questions about FoxInCloud. We'll take time to answer each of them through examples and demos.
Title: Live Demo & Presentation of GeneXus IDE Presenter: Roy Hart, GeneXus Level: Beginner Friday, October 15, 3:30 p.m.
In this session we will do a live demo of GeneXus building a small invoicing application from scratch showing the GeneXus methodology. We will also preview the brand new Device Generator for Smart Devices: iPhone/iPad, Android and Blackberry. GeneXus is an Application Generator that has been used by the Fox community since the release of its FoxPro Generator in 1988. It generates "pure code." The 11th Major Version was recently released (still supporting VFP). The Smart Device Generator & the GeneXus Smart Devices Express (SaaS in the Cloud) products were just announced! There are over 70,000 licenses world-wide. It is a multi-language / multi-environment cross-platform suite of software tools to drastically improve programmers' productivity so that applications are developed much quicker and more efficiently. 100% of the application (programs & data) can be created using the GeneXus open IDE. GeneXus supports JAVA, AJAX, .NET (C# and .NET Mobile), COBOL, RPG, Visual Fox Pro, Ruby, etc. and the most popular DBMS including DBF, IBM DB2, Informix, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle. No runtime costs!
Title: Case Study Presentation - Developing Using GeneXus Presenter: Charlie Mitchell, Owner & Chief Developer Mitchell Technology Services, Inc. Complete Nursing Home Solution Level: Beginner Friday, October 15, 5:15 p.m.
In this session Charlie Mitchell will demo & present his VFP / .Net / GeneXus nursing home solution (MTS), developed using GeneXus. Charlie is a former CIO for a large nursing home chain where he led an IT staff of over 200 people (78 developers) He has been developing medical systems for 25 years since 1985 and he started his own company in 1995. He selected GeneXus back then after evaluating other tools, and has been using it ever since. His nursing home application is "the best one in the business." He will discuss why he selected GeneXus in the first place, has stayed with it for over 15 years, what he has been able to accomplish with limited staffing, and answer questions.
"I have been using GeneXus for my VFP development since 1995 and have developed many medical applications using GeneXus. With my small staff, I could not have done it without GeneXus. Now, using GeneXus I also maintain a .Net version of my solution."
The Foxfire! Report Writer v8+ product line is a family of data mining tools designed for regular business users. Developers can adapt it to almost any database and add any needed features on demand, in order to fit user needs like a glove. It is the only set of report writers for the VFP environment that can operate interchangeably on both platforms. Its new interactive drag-'n-drop design tool (released May 2007) has been praised by users and usability experts alike for simplicity without sacrificing power. Micromega Systems, its developer/publisher offers Foxfire! consulting, integration, and training services. Our growth strategy is partnering, and we are currently seeking other developers who want to partner to create custom or localized versions to address special market opportunities. Go to www.foxfirereporting.com to explore how we might work together.
