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(ú) 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
Steven Black on Niche Markets and VFP
Ted on RSS/XML
Steve on Advanced Design Patterns:
- Factory
- Decorator
- Hooks (and Hooks and Anchors)
- FoxPro Idiomatic Patterns: Set Path To idiom, Last Copy Wins idiom