Southwest Fox Conference Blog

We’ve got sessions

You probably know that Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (Oct) is October 29-30, 2025, but maybe you haven’t had a chance to take a look at our great set of sessions. Here are the links so you can check them out: Introducing SideKick  (Tore Bleken) The VFP Developer’s Guide to Git and Sourcetree  (Rick Borup) It’s time to RESTful with XSharp  (Fabrice Foray) Lessons in buffering and transactions  (Tamar E. Granor) Document and Email Management in VFP Applications  (Doug Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (October) registration opens!

Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (Oct) is a two-day event on October 29-30, 2025. We have some great speakers delivering great sessions, live chatting during presentations, and getting to hang out virtually with new and old friends. More details here: https://virtualfoxfest.com/ Registration is open! Details, deadlines and cost are available on our Web site. You register for the conference here: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration. Don’t procrastinate, get this done today! Only 77 days until we gather on the Internet!

By Tamar Granor, ago

What do you want to learn, 2025 edition?

Each year, we post a list of topics suggested by attendees on the previous year’s conference evaluations to help people who want to submit proposals. (Here are the last few versions: 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.) Here’s this year’s list with suggestions from both Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (May) and Southwest Fox 2024: More on VFPA X# SQL Server, including with JSON Comparing SQL back-ends DotNetBridge examples Optimizing VFP memory/cache managements West West .NET connections/possibilities Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

VFF 2025 (May): Last Call

Plus Save the Date for October Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (May) is on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. If you plan to attend the conference, please register today. It only takes a couple of minutes, and we only get busier the closer we get to the conference. https://geekgatherings.com/Registration.  The first email with conference details will be sent tomorrow (April 29) to those who are registered.  Save the date We’re excited to offer you Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (Oct), a two-day online Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Check out our VFF 2025 (May) sessions

You probably know that Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (May) is on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, but maybe you haven’t had a chance to take a look at our great set of sessions. Here are the links so you can check them out: Hidden Treasures: The FoxPro Foundation Classes  (Borup, Rick) Can’t This Application Go Any Faster?  (Granor, Tamar E.) Practical Version Control: Using Git and GitHub in Your Daily Work  (Hennig, Doug) 64-bit VFP Development  (Ryan, John) Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (May) registration is open!

Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (May) is a one-day event on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. We have some great speakers delivering great sessions, live chatting during presentations, and getting to hang out virtually with new and old friends. This event will feature classic sessions (from previous conferences), updated for 2025, along with at least one brand new session. More details here: https://virtualfoxfest.com/ Registration is open! Details, deadlines and cost are available on our Web site. You register for the conference here: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration. Don’t procrastinate, get this Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Southwest Fox 2024: Decisions, decisions …

Thanks to our generous speakers stepping up and shouldering some of the financial risks, additional sponsorship, and our hope that the community will respond with more registrations, we are announcing that Southwest Fox 2024 will go on as planned in-person and virtually September 26-29, 2024. That said, it is with heavy hearts that we announce this is the final in-person Southwest Fox conference that we are going to put on as it’s clear the economics no Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Southwest Fox 2024: In-person, still in jeopardy

We really want to have an in-person Southwest Fox conference. If you plan to be at the in-person conference, please register today if you have not already done so. We are still short of our minimum to make the in-person side of the conference happen by six people. Even if we get six more in-person registrations, we are taking a financial risk. If you plan to attend virtually, please register for the virtual conference as Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Southwest Fox 2024: In-person, in jeopardy

We really want to have an in-person conference. We love the chance to see members of our community face-to-face and interact both during conference hours and outside them. If that matters to you, we need you to show up this year. Without at least 15 more in-person registrations by July 26, we will have to switch to an all-virtual conference, and we won’t be planning any future in-person events. For those signed up for the Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago