Southwest Fox Conference Blog

Deadline for free precon is July 1

Just a quick reminder that the July 1 deadline for getting a free pre-conference session with your registration is just around the corner. After that, each precon you attend is $99, as is a second precon when you get the first one free. We have a great line-up of half-day pre-conference sessions this year. The choices are: ASP.NET MVC3 JumpStart by Steve Bodnar Boosting Your Client Server Application using Stored Procedures by Menachem Bazian Fly Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Speakers and Sessions Announced

Speakers and sessions for Southwest Fox 2011 have been announced. Continuing our tradition of trying to invite new speakers every year, this year we are pleased to have Steve Bodnar and Kevin Ragsdale present at SWFox. The conference features 4 half-day pre-conference sessions and more than 25 main conference sessions in five tracks. Whether you’re still working only with VFP or extending VFP with other tools, you’ll have no trouble finding plenty of sessions to Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Registration opens June 1st

Registration for Southwest Fox 2011 opens on June 1, 2011! In past years we opened registration on May 1st, so why the delay this year? The conference is later this year by a couple of weeks because of the Jewish holy days. Traditionally we only get a few registrations in the month of May so we decided to push back the open date until June 1st. This week we will be updating the Web site Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

Speaker Proposals due Monday, March 28

This is just a quick reminder that session proposals for Southwest Fox 2011 are due by next Monday, March 28. For details, read the Call for Speakers document linked at http://www.swfox.net/callforspeakers.aspx. NOTE: If you have sent in your proposals and have not received an acknowledgment, it means we did not receive them. Please send an email to speakers@swfox.net (without attachments), so we can work it out.

By Tamar Granor, ago

Nominations Open for 2011 Ceil Silver Ambassador

The Ceil Silver Ambassador Fund brings a developer to the Southwest Fox conference in the United States as an ambassador for the developers in his or her country. This gives the recipient the opportunity to meet and share experiences with developers attending Southwest Fox and gives other attendees the opportunity to learn about VFP development in the recipient’s country. For more information on the Ambassador Fund or to learn how to contribute to it, please Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Southwest 2011 Call for Speakers

Today we released the Call for Speakers for Southwest Fox 2011. Anyone interested in presenting should visit the Call for Speakers page on the Southwest Fox website, read the complete Call for Speakers document (linked from that page), and download the proposal submission application. Session proposals are due by March 28. As in the past few years, we to offer a good selection of topics in core VFP development, extending VFP, using VFP with other Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Southwest Fox 2011 dates announced–October 26-29, 2011

Mark your calendars! We’ve nailed down the dates for Southwest Fox 2011. It’ll take place October 26-29 and we’ll return to the SanTan Legado and Elegante in Gilbert, AZ. There will be a post-conference event on the afternoon of October 29 and the morning of October 30. There are several differences this year: First, we’re in a different week in October. That’s to avoid a conflict with the Jewish holy days. Second, we’re starting on Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

2010 VFPX Administrators Award

The VFPX Administrators Award is an annual award given by the VFPX Administrators (Craig Boyd, Rick Schummer, and Doug Hennig) to recognize those people who made outstanding contributions to the VFP community through their projects on VFPX. The nominees this year were: Jim Nelson for his work on PEM Editor, Code References, and FoxChart Tools (add-ons) David Holden for SubFox Andrew Ross MacNeill for Code Analyst Emerson Santon Reed for Themed Controls Francis Faure for Read more…

By Doug Hennig, ago

2010 FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients

It was my great pleasure to announce at Southwest Fox 2010 the recipients of the 2010 FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award: Lisa Slater Nicholls and Rick Schummer. The stars must have been perfectly aligned because Lisa’s husband, well-known FoxPro guru Colin, and Rick’s wife Therese and parents Phil and Carole were in attendance. I obviously had to tell Lisa in advance so she could come to Phoenix but Rick was taken completely by surprise. In fact, Read more…

By Doug Hennig, ago

Keynote Speaker: Craig Boyd

Keynotes at Southwest Fox are normally exciting and this year we think we have a real winner lined up. While Craig Boyd couldn’t do his planned sessions at this year’s Southwest Fox, we did some arm twisting and put on the full court press to convince him to do the keynote presentation. We are waiting for Craig to finalize his topics, but we wanted to let you know so you are even more fired up Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago