UK DataFlex Group

The UK DataFlex Group started in October 2018, to bring together people who manage and develop DataFlex software in the UK. Of course, DataFlexers from further afield are welcome!

Generally this group aims to have informal, one day events covering just a few main topics, with focus on finding out more about what each other are working on and how the group can work together to help each other.

A summary of each event, with relevant links to presentations etc. will be listed on this page.

Events

1st May 2019, Eynsham Hall Hotel & Spa, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX29 6PN

See the date, location and agenda from the link below.

May 2019 UK DataFlex Group meetup

A quick summary of the day:

• Hilton Gray gave us an overview of Clubwise's business, their current technology stack and where they were going with it, followed by discussions prompted by that.

• Wil van Antwerpen gave a presentation on The Hammer.

• We had a bit of discussion about how we would like the group to continue: we all liked the venue (Eynsham Hall Hotel), so decided to meet there again on Wednesday 2nd October.

• Simon Gottschalk gave a presentation on how his Shipping Vessel Registration system used Sencha's ExtJS as a front-end to his back-end DataFlex system, the current DA web/JS framework not having been available when he started developing it.

• After lunch Wil moved on to presenting DFRefactor.

• Hilton gave us an in-depth view of Clubwise's agile, Scrum-based development processes (prompted by a question about his role at Clubwise).

• Finally Graham MacWhirter outlined Select's business and development challenges and a look at where they were going with WebApp, which also prompted various discussions until we ran out of time.

30th October 2018, Bromsgrove Hotel & Spa, Birmingham

Peter Bragg from CMAC Computer System Ltd. demonstrated donorflex their fundraising and CRM product, which it quickly became apparent from the extensive detail in the system, is sooo much more than 'just' a CRM system.

Next up, Mike Peat gave a Creating RESTful JSON Web Services with DataFlex 19.1 presentation. You can find the earlier version of this presentation for DF 19.0 here.

Finally, Nick Nikijuluw from Data Access Europe, shared what's coming down the track for DataFlex, no promises, but a welcome insight to what could be in the pipeline.