Southwest Fox 2011
October 26-29, 2011 SanTan Elegante Conference & Reception Center/Legado Hotel Gilbert, AZ
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Thursday, October 27, 10:00-11:15 Friday, October 28, 3:30-4:45
Servoy is the Next Generation development and deployment platform for FoxPro ISVs, corporate organizations and developers who are looking to develop Cloud, mobile, or on-premise software applications.
After Microsoft discontinued VFP, and ended support over a year ago, many businesses adopted Servoy to successfully enhance or migrate their VFP applications. The primary reasons for this are that Servoy has many similarities to VFP, it is easy to learn for FoxPro developers, and it is considered by many as the product into which VFP should have evolved. Servoy has been evolving as a powerful cross-platform development tool over the past 10 years and it offers training, consulting, and project management to assist customers with projects, and there is an excellent expanding Servoy community similar to that of FoxPro in the 90’s.
Stop by the Servoy booth and ask for a free USB stick with software, documentation, whitepapers, tutorials, and be sure to attend our special demo-centric vendor session led by Ken Levy, former Microsoft FoxPro Product Manager. Since he left Microsoft a few years ago, he has spent the majority of his time using Servoy in his own business, and consulting with companies who have a background in VFP and who are interested in evaluating or using Servoy.
Visit http://www.servoy.com/foxpro for more info.
Title: Mobile Access to your VFP Data Thursday, October 27, 2:00-3:15 Friday, October 28, 5:15-6:30
Need to extend your current VFP application to mobile devices or another technology? We will show you how without changing you current VFP application. See how to share your VFP data with your desktop application and mobile devices at the same time, along with getting other client/server benefits. In our session we will demonstrate concurrent data access with an ipad, iphone, Android, and a mobile web application. Your current data can now be accessed by mobile workers without having to change the application currently used by the office workers. Your VFP application's life span can grow... we can show you how to do it.
Friday, October 28, 11:30-12:45 Saturday, October 29, 11:30-12:45
This session is for VFP developers who want to see their VFP desktop app run ALSO in the cloud, right now and for $650 only! If you think web for your application, and you tick just one of the following boxes, then this session is meant for you!
This session will challenge your ideas about going Web; we'll showcase the very same complex VFP application running live in LAN and WEB mode, and we shall demonstrate why and how FoxInCloud puts your VFP app less than 2% away from running in the cloud.
Thursday, October 27, 11:30-12:45
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.
Thursday, October 27, 3:30-4:45 Friday, October 28, 10:00-11:15
BASIS International Ltd. offers development tools for database-centric business applications to the FoxPro community. From the mature object-oriented programming language, BBj® - Java made easy, to the powerful rapid application development tool, the Barista® Application Framework, BASIS is ready to support your development efforts for both native client/server applications as well as the new era of cloud and browser deployment. Transition your FoxPro application at your own pace, as others are doing. You have choices with BASIS. Move your data to BASIS technology and access your FoxPro database from your new cloud-enabled development using JDBC while developing anew with BASIS.
BBj’s easy to-learn syntax and API will feel comfortably familiar. BBj comes with a built-in database that allows SQL access as well as direct access to single records - read, write, and lock single records with a single statement. If you prefer, use BASIS’ ESQL or a standard SQL database like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server or mySQL. BASIS’ renowned platform independence provides developers with new business opportunities as does its browser deployment capability from a single code source.
Barista is an efficient GUI RAD tool that also provides code transparency and granular programmer control. A data dictionary-driven development framework and run-time engine, Barista quickly generates GUI forms and queries and the business logic for data entry, editing, deleting, sorting, and filtering of data. Barista includes a long list of built-in utilities and functionality that can both dramatically reduce development time and replace costly third party products.
BASIS has been producing development tools for business applications since 1985 with the commitment to backward compatibility, protecting decades of development effort by its partners. BASIS is a global software company...big and stable enough to be a reliable partner, yet small and flexible enough to deliver customized solutions to meet today's business challenges. Read more about BASIS at www.basis.com.
Title: Project PolarFox, the next generation Visual FoxPro Presenter: Steffen F. Pirsig Level: Beginner
Thursday, October 27, 5:15-6:30
In this session we will talk about our release plans for PolarFox, the next generation Visual FoxPro. Attendees will get detailed information about how Alaska Software sees the future for the Visual FoxPro developer in terms of:
See how PolarFox loads existing VFP Forms, automatically transforms them into native Win32 multithreaded applications. See how PolarFox makes it a snap to run your Visual FoxPro form on iPad or Android devices as an HTML/Ajax web solution.
To begin leveraging your existing VFP knowledge to develop web and connected mobile applications, do not miss our <CXP:Now/> session!
Title: <CXP:Now/> Presenter: Steffen F. Pirsig Level: Beginner
Saturday, October 29, 10:00-11:15
This session is for any Visual FoxPro developer who wants to leverage existing knowledge to develop web applications or connected mobile applications now! If you have already attended the "Visual FoxPro and Xbase++, a comparison" session, you know how similar Xbase++ and VFP are as a language. You also have learned that Alaska Software currently invests into the PolarFox project to create a solid successor for Visual FoxPro. This session is about the first milestone towards that vision.
<CXP/> is a new technology from Alaska Software using the Xbase++ 2.0 compiler technology as a service. This way, native web pages for high performance, high security web sites can be created in a way similar to PHP or other scripting languages for the Web. <CXP/> pages in general have a much lower error rate due to the underlying compiler technology and the more than 250 build-time error messages.
See what the underlying <CXP:InfraStructure/> already does for you to make web and mobile application development easier. Learn how to develop web applications with an appealing UI using JQuery and <CXP/>.
Attendees of this session will be prepared for November 10th, the launch date of the first community technology preview on our route towards PolarFox.
Friday, October 28, 2:00-3:15
Alpha Five Version 11 is the new application development tool that lets you build powerful and secure AJAX business database applications for the web and mobile devices 5-10 times faster than with products like Visual Studio, J2EE, and PHP.
ALPHA FIVE has embraced the HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript standard and is the ONE versatile Rapid Application Development framework for all of today's platforms: mobile, tablet, web.
Alpha Five Version 11 has a component architecture consisting of a collection of grid, form, dialog, security, GIS/data mapping, calendar, charting, video player, animation, image gallery and HTML5 Web reporting components designed to speed up the application development process.
The richness and depth of the Alpha Five Version 11 components means that for most applications, coding is not needed which in turn results in speedy development.
In situations where coding is desired, Alpha Five's RAD tools step out of the way and Alpha Five v11 comes with a complete development and debugging environment, a powerful object oriented language, full integration with the .Net framework and an extensive client and server side event model.
The ability of Alpha Five Version 11 to rapidly build and modify working applications that can be shown to clients and then progressively refined based on client input makes Alpha Five v11 the ideal tool for practicing agile development methods to create web and mobile apps that truly meet customer requirements.
Full compilation of Alpha Five v11 videos Most of these are already available on the Alpha Five YouTube channel Watching on YouTube offers better performance and support for iphones and ipads.
A developers perspective of Alpha Five More information is shown here Animated overview of Alpha Five v11 Summary of what's new in Alpha Five v11 Video feature peeks in the Alpha Five blog
