July 2007

e-News from Visual DataFlex UK  Late July 2007

In This Issue The Synergy Conference - Selected presentation files Featured Article The Synergy Conference   What did you miss?   See our second Synergy Conference report opposite for a small selection of the presentations given there. Quick Links   VDF UK Website Asckey Website Eclipse-fm® Electos

August and the holiday season is upon us! For those of you still working, here's an update on the holiday you probably didn't take - the Visual Dataflex Synergy conference in Miami.   Synergy comes to the UK Mark your diaries- Instead of VDF Sig on October 13th, we have two UK events on October 24th and 25th. One will be an introduction to VDF mainly aimed at our new "Personal Edition" users (but of course all welcome), while the second will be bringing some of the Synergy conference to the UK. The venue is  in the Luton area - chosen to make flying as cheap as it can be, and road transport no worse than most places!   For active VDF developers this will be an essential and not to be missed update on where VDF is and is heading in a time of rapid development. More in September on this, but to register an early interest, email us any time - enquiries@asckey.com Synergy Conference - Selected presentation files   While these are no substitute for being there, these give some feeling for the subjects discussed. Please note that this is not the whole conference by any means. Some topics not included here we have dealt with in the UK VDF Sig  or in our previous newsletters, and some presentations that may be referred to in these were too much based in live material to be reproduced here. All of which means that you should be coming along in October to really understand the subjects!   Dynamic AI - Carsten Sorensen, Syntac Two short presentations, one on the upcoming V6, and the other showing Dynamic AI reporting to a PDA. The latter an interesting extension to the world of mobile devices!    Ajax Library - Eddy Kleinjan, Data Access Europe An updated presentation on the AJAX framework arriving in the next version of VDF and available in pre-release for some time. Required reading for web VDF developers   VDF 12 - John Tuohy, Data Access Worldwide "Must read" current status , CodeJock and roadmap presentations One excerpt - Web development goal  Provide a visual builder for web pages      Goal: be able to visually design web application just like you would with windows applications  Electos Search Engine Optimization - Randall Rutherford, Dataa Access Worldwide Randall handles marketing at Data Access Worldwide. With his needs now influencing Electos development, some of what is required to achieve what is discussed here will be coming into the product   Application Development - Libraries and SQL Databases. Steve Meeley, Data Access Worldwide Steve deals with the concept of Libraries that has come in with VDF 12, and presents an appraisal of current development in the area of the SQL database access connectivity kits - both technically and commercially.  New commercial details include information on free introductory connectivity kits where the "Lite" (MS SQL and IBM DB2) versions of the databases are to be used      Electos 3.0 and 3.1 Thijs Nijhuis, Data Access Europe   Review of Electos 3.0 and ongoing work into 3.1. We have been working with Thijs and DAE and already have a shop site using card payment facilities.   Web Applications overview Vincent Oorsprong, Data Access Europe History and Update on VDF Web development. Useful URLs for the current AJAX demos Wherever you are, enjoy the break, and we look forward to seeing you in October - just watch out for more details in September   e-News from Visual DataFlex in the UK is provided by Asckey Data Services Ltd.