Newbie advice

[Jeff Bandle]

Hi All -

   Long time lurker on this list but I'm compelled to ask for some advice.
A few weeks ago Nancy posted a notice that a long time FilePro programmer,
George Simon had unexpectedly passed away.  I knew George from working with
him the last 10 years, assisting him on the FlowerSoft Silver application
used by quite a few independent flower shops throughout the US.  I didn't do
any FilePro development but helped by providing standalone applications
George called to handle things such as decrypting wire orders and processing
credit card transactions.

 

  George's sudden passing has left these shops in an unsupported situation
and I've agreed to see if I can take this on in a very limited manner to at
least buy time for these shops to move onto another solution.  I've been
working with Nancy and the fptech folks and have gotten a 6.0 license for
the newest FilePro development environment.  In researching the installed
FlowerSoft software at several difference locations, it looks like George
included the source code with the executable bits.  

 

  What I'm asking is advice/guidance on the best way to proceed with ramping
up on FilePro so I can at least try to diagnose issues if they were
reported.  George and I had talked about me helping him and he was going to
provide guidance but sadly that never happened before his passing.  A
complicating factor is George was on FilePro 5.0 and I guess there are
potential conflicts if I use the 6.0 version that I will have to watch out
for.

 

  I apologize up front if this is too vague.  I've programmed in C, C++ and
C# along with MySQL and MS SQL, so I have a fair amount of programming
experience.  I've looked at the training materials available on the fptech
site but what I've seen seems to be geared for starting from scratch, not
how to support an existing project.

 

Thanks in advance for any tips.  I would like to have a setup where I make
changes on my local development machine and then role those changes to the
customer system, but maybe that isn't a good way to do it.  Any thoughts on
a recommendation for setting up a support "lab" would be very helpful.

 

Best regards,

 

Jeff Bandle

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