The demos in the screencast not only show VFP DBF data being used in an IBM SmartCloud virtual machine server with Servoy with a live public IP address, but also included is how Servoy can automatically create and update a SQL based relational database (in this example, PostgreSQL), but also how Servoy handles updates to the database schema in the database when application updates are deployed. The presentation includes an overall introduction and example of how Servoy can easily deploy and manage hosted applications that can be used for desktop, web, and mobile solutions. Please feel free to email me with any follow-up questions, or contact Servoy with any technical or sales related questions. More information on Servoy for FoxPro developers can be found at http://servoy.com/foxpro.

Screencast: Ken Levy Creates Cloud Hosted Servoy App with Existing DBF Data
Online streaming and MP4 download:
http://www.screencast.com/t/a7YTkpXh2
Length: 1h 22min
Description: Ken Levy, former Visual FoxPro Product Manager will host this comprehensive one-hour webinar — including a demonstration and discussion on building a web based application using existing DBF data hosted in the Cloud, all created from scratch within the one hour webinar. Many Visual FoxPro developers who have learned to develop with Servoy have found Servoy’s development platform easy, powerful, and beneficial; as well as appreciate Servoy’s dynamic programming features and rich data model functionality. Ken considers Servoy the logical evolution dev tool for VFP developers. In this demo-centric one-hour session, Ken will create a new Servoy web application from the ground up using DBF data from an existing functional Visual FoxPro application – then host it in the IBM Cloud making it available for public internet access without any changes to the VFP application, all within an hour. The various demos will show how Servoy is the ideal development platform for cross-browser, multi-device, and optionally cloud hosted line of business applications – for either migrating or extending existing Visual FoxPro based applications.

Date:  January 18, 2012 11:00am Pacific Time

Register (free): https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/135427224

Description: As many Visual FoxPro developers know, Foxfire! (foxfirereporting.com) from Micromega Systems is a great report writer that’s easy to use and powerful for everyday business people. With Foxfire! you can extract and mine data from databases and create a variety of outputs for reports, spreadsheets, charts, pivot tables, data files, and more – without having to be reporting or database expert. Foxfire! 8 within the product line includes both Windows and web based versions. Along with the announcement and launch of the new latest version 9 of Foxfire!, this webinar will demonstrate how Foxfire 9 can be easily integrated into Servoy development, and even complement and extend existing report management of reports created with tools such as JasperReports. With Foxfire! 9 and the upcoming Foxfire! SDK for Servoy, there’s a new era of Foxfire! with an additional and unique offering in the Servoy ecosystem. Join Andrew MacNeill (lead developer of Foxfire!) and Ken Levy (former Visual FoxPro product manager) for this special launch and announcement of Foxfire! 9 with Servoy to see how to create powerful reports quickly with great management tools that integrate within a Servoy application, all with a power SDK for Servoy developers.

More information on Servoy for FoxPro developers can be found at http://servoy.com/foxpro.

Date:  December 13, 2011 11:00am Pacific Time

Register (free): https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/774547784

Description: Ken Levy, former Visual FoxPro Product Manager will host this comprehensive one-hour webinar — including a demonstration and discussion on building a web based application using existing DBF data hosted in the Cloud, all created from scratch within the one hour webinar. Many Visual FoxPro developers who have learned to develop with Servoy have found Servoy’s development platform easy, powerful, and beneficial; as well as appreciate Servoy’s dynamic programming features and rich data model functionality. Ken considers Servoy the logical evolution dev tool for VFP developers. In this demo-centric one-hour session, Ken will create a new Servoy web application from the ground up using DBF data from an existing functional Visual FoxPro application – then host it in the IBM Cloud making it available for public internet access without any changes to the VFP application, all within an hour. The various demos will show how Servoy is the ideal development platform for cross-browser, multi-device, and optionally cloud hosted line of business applications – for either migrating or extending existing Visual FoxPro based applications. More information on Servoy for FoxPro developers can be found at http://servoy.com/foxpro.

JavaScript 101 for Visual FoxPro Developers
Presented by Ken Levy

August 3rd, 10:00am – 2:00pm (Pacific Time)

– Introduction to JavaScript language and programming
– Using JavaScript in VFP with the Script Control object
– JavaScript in a webpage
– JavaScript in Servoy with new Servoy 6 Command Console
– Functions, objects, loops, arrays, data types, libraries, and more
– Event and error handling
– Mapping VFP functions to JavaScript
– Resources, Q&A

Register ($99US – PayPal or credit card via PayPal):

More information and resources on Servoy for Visual FoxPro developers including a link to the free full featured Servoy Community Edition download, visit http://servoy.com/foxpro.

Ken Levy, former Visual FoxPro Product Manager, and Jan Aleman, Servoy CEO, will host this comprehensive one-hour webinar — including a demonstration and discussion on using Servoy with existing Visual FoxPro applications, and Servoy for FoxPro developers.

Many Visual FoxPro developers who have learned to develop with Servoy, have found Servoy’s development platform easy, powerful, and beneficial; as well as appreciate Servoy’s dynamic programming features and rich data model functionality. This demo-centric one-hour session includes a wide variety of technical areas of Servoy — from data-centric development to using VFP COM based DLLs within Servoy. In the webinar, Mr. Aleman and Mr. Levy will also discuss ideas; answer questions; and share knowledge on both technical and business scenarios offered to VFP developers evaluating Servoy.

For more information about Servoy for VFP developers, visit http://servoy.com/foxpro.

Date: May 19th, 2011
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm PT

Webinar registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/660395384

Servoy 101 for Visual FoxPro Developers

March 21st, 10:00am – 2:00pm (Pacific Time)

Introduction and Architecture Overview
Installation of free Servoy Community Edition
Eclipse IDE for Servoy
Working with Forms and Controls
Web Client and Web Forms
Programming with Servoy Objects and JavaScript
Database Connections (DBFs and Relational Databases)
Working with Data and Relations
Object-oriented, Object-based, and Event-driven Programming
Working with VFP COM Objects
Extensibility (Plugins and JavaBeans)
Data-Driven UI and Programming
Mobile Devices
Debugging
Reports
Security
Internationalization/Localization
Team Development and Versioning
Deployment
VFP to Servoy Conversion Tools
Servoy Version 6 Preview
Resources, Community, Q&A

Registering after the event starts provides access to the recorded video only (within 24 hours after registration) and not the live webinar event.

Register ($99US – PayPal or credit card via PayPal):

More information and resources on Servoy for Visual FoxPro developers including a link to the free full featured Servoy Community Edition download, visit http://servoy.com/foxpro.

ServoyCast will include Servoy community and ecosystem related conversations of interest to existing and potential developers and decision makers. You can listen to the shows online, subscribe via RSS or the iTunes link, or download the MP3 for each episode manually.

ServoyCast is currently hosted at on screencast.com, and you can subscribe using the RSS or iTunes feed. ServoyCast is also listed in iTunes Preview.

I have plans for several ServoyCast episodes per month. Below is a list of the first 3 episodes:

ServoyCast_001 – Servoy Development with Scott Butler
Scott Butler (servoyguy.com) of itechprofessionals.com and servoyu.com discusses his 7+ year history working with Servoy, consulting, ServoyU, Servoy 6 alpha, ServoyWorld, plus web and mobile development with Servoy.
Duration: 29:52

ServoyCast_002 – FmPro Migrator with David Simpson
David Simpson of fmpromigrator.com/servoy discusses the FmPro Migrator product and how the product and services combined offer conversion of forms, data, and much more to Servoy from various development platforms such as FileMaker, Access, and Visual FoxPro.
Duration: 41:33

ServoyCast_003 – VFP ERP App to Servoy with Jeroen de Vries
Jeroen de Vries of softwear.nl discusses his experience in successfully moving from Visual FoxPro to Servoy for an ERP application for the fashion industry, with the VFP app running side-by-side of the during development with Servoy. Jeroen talks about how Servoy can be considered like an evolution of VFP, experiences of a VFP developer learning and using Servoy, and how the Servoy community includes many of the same passion as the FoxPro community.
Duration: 38:26

Servoy for Visual FoxPro Developers
Recorded Webinar: Ken Levy, former Visual FoxPro Product Manager, and Sean Devlin, Servoy Senior Technical Engineer, present this comprehensive 90 minute webinar with demonstrations and discussions on using Servoy for FoxPro developers. This webinar is demo-centric and focuses on how features common to Visual FoxPro applications are developed in Servoy, cool Servoy features not supported in Visual FoxPro, how Servoy works with DBF tables in existing FoxPro applications, and the benefits to FoxPro developers in adding Servoy expertise to their toolkit.

Servoy Screencasts by Ken Levy
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Information and resources about Servoy for VFP developers:http://servoy.com/foxpro

I’ve been learning and using Servoy, and the more I use it, the more I find it’s a powerful and fun developer tool to use building new smart client and web client apps connected to existing VFP DBF data, as well as for building new applications based on VFP programming experience. In working with various members of the Servoy team, both executives and technical engineers, I’ve found that Servoy is a very community oriented product with passionate users reminding me of the enthusiastic FoxPro community. The source of both these vibrant communities are based on the great product features in an actively evolving and growing product often based on direct customer feedback and suggestions.

Servoy is an application server, not a database server, which means it’s designed to be used with a wide variety of relational databases including ability to use DBF data as a data source. Servoy’s application server model allows developers to create very powerful multi-user and web-based application functionality with little or no coding while offering a very rich data-centric programming object model.

The fact that Servoy works great using existing VFP DBF (or other) data while providing many powerful rich and web clients primarily using the easy to use JavaScript dynamic programming language makes it a potentially powerful product for VFP developers to add to their skill set. The developer platform for Servoy is built on an open standards stack, while the Servoy developer tools have recently been added into open source.

The community edition of Servoy is free and includes all the full functionality of the Servoy developer platform and application server. Servoy is cross platform, and I currently have it installed on a Windows machine, a Windows based Virtual PC image, and also on my Mac OS. With a runtime based license model, as are many server based products, the cost of use is tied to the maximum number of unique concurrent users. And a new optional revenue sharing subscription model is offered which essentially allows businesses to create and deploy Servoy apps with no licensing costs at all. This opens the door for a low cost barrier of entry for VFP developers to either enhance existing VFP apps or create new apps that leverage the benefits from the modern (SaaS – Software as a Service) model.

The online webinar I will host tomorrow, along with Sean Devlin, Servoy Senior Technical Engineer, will be a comprehensive one-hour demonstration and discussion on using Servoy with existing Visual FoxPro applications and Servoy for FoxPro developers. This webinar will be demo-centric — focusing on how features common to Visual FoxPro applications are developed in Servoy; cool Servoy features not supported in Visual FoxPro; how Servoy works with DBF tables in existing FoxPro applications; and the benefits to FoxPro developers in adding Servoy expertise to their toolkit. A live interactive Q&A session will immediately follow the presentation.

In the webinar we will also discuss ideas, answer questions, and share knowledge on both technical and business scenarios offered to VFP developers evaluating Servoy. For additional information about Servoy for VFP developers and to view a recommended prerequisite screencast Servoy with Visual FoxPro – Introduction, visit the special http://servoy.com/foxpro page.

Register: Servoy for Visual FoxPro Developers
Live Webinar: June 15, 2010 11:00am PT

Various Servoy resources I’ve created are listed on my mashupx.com/servoy page (link on blog sidebar under the Pages section).