The last three sessions of the conference and a closing session closed
the GLGDW conference. I saw Kevin McNeish in the first slot,
demonstrating Pocket PC and .NET interactions. The second slot was
Lauren Clarke with his demo of creating SVG with Visual FoxPro in a
session called “One Thousand Data Points are Worth a Picture.” Great
demo with interesting demos, animated cartoons, understandable code and
a clear and humorous speaker. Great stuff.
Archive | October, 2003
Great Lakes Great Database Workshop Day Three
Another great day in Milwaukee. Saw more good sessions: Rick Borup on InnoSetup, Cathy Pountney on File Factories. Missed Predrag Bosnic on UI Design, but I hear it was a great session. Dan Jurden on SQL Server UDFs and Paul McNett on Linux Programming Tools. I wrapped up the sessions by presenting my Software Licensing session at the last time slot, and finished up well with my best session of the conference. Conference is well-attended; I’d guess around 200 people, which fills the facilities here pretty well.
We had a night off from planned events, so Laura and I and Rick Borup enjoyed a dinner at Mader’s, [updated link] one of the many fine German restaurants in downtown Milwaukee. Finished off the day with a good can-you-top-this session in the conference hotel bar with “Oh, yeah? I once worked on software so bad…” All in all, a great day.
Great Lakes Great Database Day Two
Three sessions down and one to go for me. The \”Internet Subscriptions
using VFP and XML\” session went really well. The Software Licensing
session was surprisingly short, but I at least folks got to lunch early
and enjoyed themselves. The Linux InstallFest was the surprise of the
conference for me — the turnout was spectacular. Many successful
installs, many questions answered, much interest generated.
Dinner at the Water Street Brewery with friends was a welcome intermission, too.
Great Lakes Great Database Workshop Day One Wrap-Up
A great first day. Pre-cons in the morning, a brief keynote, three
afternoon sessions, and an evening session featuring the latest
Hentzenwerke book, “Fox Tales” by Kerry Neitz, a memoir of his years at
Fox Software.
Great Lakes Great Database Workshop begins
Sunday morning, 8:30 AM started the pre-conference sessions. Four sessions all seemed well-attended: Whil Hentzen did an Introduction to Linux, Kevin McNeish an Introduction to .NET, Steve Sawyer a session on client-server, and Dan Jurden a session on integrating Crystal Reports with Visual FoxPro. Opening keynote starts at 12:30 PM. Looking forward to the conference kickoff!
Off to Glakes
The wagons are all packed and the horses hitched up, and it’s almost time to head to the big city for the trip to Milwaukee for the Great Lakes Great Database Workshop. Y’all take care, and I’ll check in as I can.
What’s ahead for databases?
What’s ahead for databases?.
“PALO ALTO, CALIF. – Is the database still relevant? Panelists at a
Software Development Forum session here Wednesday evening debated this
and other questions pertaining to what will be the role of databases in
the future, chiming in about the elevated role of XML, commoditization,
and open source software.” From InfoWorld: Top News.
Short answer: Duh. Yes, databases are still relevant. Several good
points in the article, though: databases should be commodity items at
some level of the decision-making process, although they are not to the
technicians who develop and maintain them, nor to the folks who need
specific features or licensing arrangements.
Visual FoxPro 8.0 Service Pack 1 looking good…
Installed the Visual FoxPro 8.0 Service Pack 1 and all seems well. It
always does… but I’m pretty confident in the stability of this one.
The installation referenced KB824071, but that doesn’t seem to have
gone live yet. Perhaps it will supply more details that the README.HTM
supplied with the product. That listed a whole slew of problems that
were fixed.
Visual FoxPro 8 Service Pack 1 Released
Visual FoxPro 8.0 Service Pack 1 Released.
Download Visual FoxPro 8.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Discover the many
enhancements and stability improvements designed to improve the
reliability and performance of Visual FoxPro 8.0. By Microsoft. [FoxCentral News]
Chandler gets big bucks…
Cool news. Chandler is a new Open Source effort at being the end-all and be-all PIM. I really hope this effort can succeed.
“Chandler Project Gets Big Foundation Grant.
In an amazing coup for the Open Source Applications Foundation — and
potentially great news for its (we hope) pathbreaking…” [Dan Gillmor’s eJournal]