Newbie advice

[Richard Kreiss]

Jeff,

Starting from the beginning is not such a bad thing. Once you understand how filePro works, it makes it easier to diagnose issues. Kwwp in mind that many functions are hidden from an FP programmer. To make it faster to write code. As the underlying programming expands so does the functionality of filePro. 

I have been programming with filePro for over 30 years.through versions 3 to the current version. As this is art & science no two programmers will write the same code to solve a problem. Supplying the “source” code with the runtimes insures the developer of having  the version that the client is using   I have done this many times to insure any modifications done for the client is on-site. I do have copies of most of me client’s programs on my server. This makes it easy for me to restore their programming in the event of a disaster. Many don’t do backups or test them to insure that the backup actually works. I have one client who copies the backup to another computer in case his primary server goes down. The backup server is off-site. 

Richard Kreiss 

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> On Jun 7, 2021, at 8:59 PM, Jeff Bandle via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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