Time to register for Virtual Fox Fet

Thanks to all who have already registered for Virtual Fox Fest; we appreciate your support and our speakers are excited to share all their sessions with you all soon. That said, we know there are procrastinators who have not registered and have good intentions to do so before the conference starts. Please, please, please do so sooner than later. Our hard working registration staff of one is also a presenter who is practicing and refining his Read more…

Introducing Geekwear by Geek Gatherings

We’re pleased to announce Geekwear by Geek Gatherings. Order your Virtual Fox Fest gear from https://geekgatherings.logosoftwear.com/. Choose from the options shown or create your own unique VFFwear.  To choose your favorite color instead of ours, click the item you want and on that item’s page, click Customize This Product. On the page that opens, click Product & Color and choose the color you want.  To create custom items, click any item. On the page that Read more…

Virtual Fox Fest 2020: All new virtual Fox conference in October

Southwest Fox hiatus until 2021 We’re disappointed to announce that due to COVID-19, the annual Southwest Fox Conference is on hiatus in 2020. However, we’re excited to offer you Virtual Fox Fest, an online conference presenting the latest in Microsoft Visual FoxPro development techniques and interoperability with other technologies. This conference provides a venue for VFP experts to come together virtually to learn more about how our fellow programmers are using and extending VFP. For details about Virtual Read more…

Southwest Fox 2020 submission deadline extended

We understand you’re probably not thinking much beyond the next few weeks or months, but we’re still planning Southwest Fox 2020 on the assumption that the current crisis will be over by November. In light of that, we’re extending the speaker submission deadline to Monday, April 13. If you have something to share with our developer community, read the Call for Speakers document (http://www.swfox.net/CallForSpeakers.pdf) and then use the Submission site (https://geekgatherings.com/Submission) to send us your Read more…

What do you want to learn, 2020 edition?

Each year, we post a list of topics suggested by attendees on the previous year’s conference evaluations in order to help people who want to submit proposals. (Here’s the 2019 list, as well as the 2018 and 2017 versions.) Here’s this year’s list, organized and de-duped. Obviously, we welcome topics not on this list, too. X# VFP Advanced wwDotNetBridge C#, including introductory sessions SQL, including migrating from VFP to a SQL backend Multi-tenant architecture and Read more…