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Phil Kirby
31-Aug-2006, 07:13 PM
Greetings from Downunder,

On a fine, sunny day in an eastern Melbourne venue, the Melbourne Chapter of
the Australian DataFlex Develpers and Users Group conducted a successful
get-together to exchange ideas, demonstrate tips and tricks, and determine
the future of the universe.

Present: Peter Books, Jonathon Harris, Phil Kirby, Colin Winger, Peter Tawse
and Vicki Curphey
Apologies: Chris Vawser and Richard Hogg.

The group was treated to a lunchtime feast of gourmet sandwiches, after
which a series of presentations from each of the attendees took place.

Colin Winger demonstrated Suse Linux as a fileserver O/S and Python as a
neat and powerful language for building utility applications

Peter Tawse showed a useful tool for booting up a PC from a CD, and having a
full-blown Windows OS available (great if the hard drive dies.) Peter also
showed snippetts of one of his systems (now supported by Vicki) that uses
GPS technology to allocate and report on jobs to roving service technicians.

Phil Kirby showed current progress on his VDF7.3 to VDF12 migration.

Jonathon Harris showed some Crystal report front-end techniques.

Peter Brooks showed us some handy routines for user-definable individual
form customisation (security, colour, label, etc) and some Help tips using
PDFs and Word docs, with the ability for a client to easily define their own
Help

Much interest was expressed in the DDUG Annual Conference to be held in
Christchurch New Zealand in August 2007. International guests are most
welcome, especially those keen on skiing.

The day concuded with pizzas and (free) beer. The group will convene again
at a later date (venue to be announced).

Regards
Phil Kirby