A free Xbase++ User Group meeting has been scheduled in Toronto,
Canada on Sunday May 25, 2008. The speakers for this event include:
Steffen F. Pirsig, CTO & President of Alaska Software Inc., and
myself.  
Everyone is invited! No membership is required & no entrance fees will
be charged. We do however ask that you register since space is
limited.  
For more info and to register, see here: http://xug.xb2.net
Hope to see you there!

A free Xbase++ User Group meeting has been scheduled in Toronto, Canada on Sunday May 25, 2008. The speakers for this event include: Steffen F. Pirsig, CTO & President of Alaska Software Inc., and myself.
Everyone is invited! No membership is required & no entrance fees will be charged. We do however ask that you register since space is limited.
For more info and to register, see here: http://xug.xb2.net
Hope to see you there!
Best regards,
Boris Borzic
http://xb2.net
http://sqlexpress.net
industrial strength Xbase++ development tools

Please, if you have time, to post your comments about the meeting

Osvaldo Ramirez <ramirezosvaldo@yahoo.com> wrote in news:60632a59
$4fcce2c9$a707@news.xbwin.com:


The meeting was well attended and went very well. Steffen talked about
the future direction of Xbase++, including:

- Upcoming 1.9 service level 1
- Integration of SQL into core language
- Integration of PgSQL as the preferred Xbase++ client server solution
- Plans to tap into vast Visual FoxPro community

I gave a session on SQLExpress and Xb2.NET. Several performance
benchmarks were presented comparing DBF/Xbase style programming with SQL
style. Identical databases were used; one running on ADS v8, and the
second running MS SQLServer 2005. The following results:

NOTE: All queries running against equivalent data and return exactly the
same result (test program is attached).

1. Query :

Traditional DBF: 10.5 sec (running on ADS)
Brute force conversion of query to SQL: 13.5 sec (running on ADS)
Brute force conversion of query to SQL:4.2 sec (running on SQLServer)
Optimized SQL query: 5.0 sec (running on ADS)
Optimized SQL query: 0.05 sec (running on SQLServer)

2. Insert/Update:

Traditional DBF: 17.5 sec (running on ADS)
Optimized SQL: 2.4 sec (running on ADS)
Optimized SQL: 0.8 sec (running on SQLServer)

I also showed how to create a website from scratch using only Xbase++,
Xb2.NET and SQLExpress. The sample I used was the http://xug.xb2.net
site. This I thought was a good sample because it was simple (only a few
pages) and there was a data input (the registration page) and a data
output (the report showing who's registered).

After the meeting a few of us walked to a nearby pub where we sampled
some local beers and enjoyed each others company with more shop talk
including a discussion of the next step in human evolution... the
emergence of a super-intelligence (either artificial or biologically
enhanced). Here's some links about this topic:

http://mindstalk.net/vinge/vinge-sing.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near

-- Best regards,
Boris Borzic

http://xb2.net
http://sqlexpress.net
industrial strength Xbase++ development tools

Would it be possible to get the source of the  http://xug.xb2.net
site? I can't download the SQL.prg sample, because of Outlook is blocking
all PRG files. Could you provide this as a ZIP?

By the way, I haven't got a renewal for my subscription for a long
time? Is this still valid?

>

"Chris Andries" <chris@aboservice.be> wrote in
news:574dabd2$613b18d7$a701@news.xbwin.com:


I have attached a ZIP file with all requested source code.


Your support period expired on Oct 28, 2007. A renewal email was sent to
you, however it bounced with the following error:

Unknown user: chris@aboservice.com
RCPT TO generated following response:
550 5.7.1 <chris@aboservice.com>... Relaying denied. Proper authentication
required.
<<

Do you have an alternate email address?

-- Best regards,
Boris Borzic

http://xb2.net
http://sqlexpress.net
industrial strength Xbase++ development tools

I send it by mail.

"Chris Andries" <chris@aboservice.be> wrote in news:348a6b6b$3e8f1a1b
$a70d@news.xbwin.com:


I have not received any email. Please try resending to bbo_at_xb2_dot_net
as well as bbo_at_canada_dot_com. One of them should come through.

-- Best regards,
Boris Borzic

http://xb2.net
http://sqlexpress.net
industrial strength Xbase++ development tools

The mail is returned. :-(

It is chris_at_aboservice_dot_be. It seems as you used the aboservice.COM
before.  

"Chris Andries" <chris@aboservice.be> wrote in
news:10c48762$5cff2b19$a70e@news.xbwin.com:

well... I suppose one way to stop SPAM is to block all emails <g>

I have sent you an email to the above address. Let me know if you received
it (it has not bounced yet).

-- Best regards,
Boris Borzic

http://xb2.net
http://sqlexpress.net
industrial strength Xbase++ development tools