Southwest Fox Conference Blog

Jun Tangunan named 2012 Ceil Silver Ambassador

Geek Gatherings is pleased to announce that the 2012 Ceil Silver Ambassador is Jun Tangunan. Jun is a well-known member of the Foxite VFP community site and has a great blog at http://sandstorm36.blogspot.com. The Ceil Silver Ambassador Fund raises money from the VFP community to bring a developer to the Southwest Fox conference as an ambassador for the developers in his or her country. This gives the recipient the opportunity to meet and share experiences Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Register sooner rather than later … please

As those who attended Southwest Fox 2011 (and those who read Doug Hennig’s blog last November) know, registrations for last year’s conference were very slow, to the point that we were looking at a five-figure loss and expected it to be the last full-blown Southwest Fox. Fortunately, we got enough later registrations to save the day. For this year, we convinced the hotel to let us postpone our final commitment to July 2 (not coincidentally, Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Registration is open!

Registration is now open for both Southwest Fox and Southwest Xbase++. In addition, speakers and sessions for Southwest Xbase++ are now available. Remember, if you register for one conference, you’re free to attend sessions in the other conference as well: it’s BOGO (buy one, get one free). There are some sessions specifically intended for VFP developers, including Project PolarFox: State of the Union and Xbase++ 2.0 from a VFP Developer’s Perspective. Registration information: http://www.swfox.net/register.aspx Online Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Southwest Fox 2012 speakers and sessions announced

We officially announced the speakers and sessions for Southwest Fox 2012 today. All the details can be found on the Speakers page. We’re glad to welcome back a couple of speakers who haven’t been to Southwest Fox in a long time: Rod Paddock and Kevin McNeish. And of course Cathy Knight, Kevin Cully, and Rick Strahl, who didn’t speak at the conference last year. Returning from last year are Menachem Bazian, Steve Bodnar, Rick Borup, Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Call for Speakers deadline reminder

Just a reminder that session proposals for Southwest Fox 2012 are due by 8 AM EDT this Friday, March 23. If you’re interested in speaking, please download the Call for Speakers and the proposal application from http://www.swfox.net/CallForSpeakers.aspx. We look forward to hearing from you.

By Tamar Granor, ago

Attendee’s session ideas

When we sent out the “save the date” notice for Southwest Fox 2012 last week, we asked people to tell us about topics they’d like to see included. As we receive them, we’re planning to put them in this blog, so prospective speakers can see them. So far, we’ve received two suggestions, one rather broad, one very detailed: 1) One attendee says “I need to learn more about using SQL server.” 2) Another says “I Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Southwest Fox and Southwest Xbase++

Save the dates for Southwest Fox and Southwest Xbase++ 2012! The conferences take place October 18-21, 2012. This year we have two conferences as one great event at the same location. Southwest Fox has always served Visual FoxPro developers an opportunity to learn and extend their skills, and network with fellow developers. Alaska Software is working on PolarFox, a product that keeps the Visual FoxPro language alive in their next generation tool. You get two Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

Southwest Fox 2012 Call for Speakers

Today we released the Call for Speakers for Southwest Fox 2012. Anyone interested in presenting should visit http://www.swfox.net/callforspeakers.aspx, read the complete Call for Speakers document (linked from that page), and download the proposal submission application. Session proposals are due by March 23. As in the past few years, we plan to offer a good selection of topics in core VFP development, extending VFP, using VFP with other technologies, and VFPX, as well as technology sessions Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Help us plan Southwest Fox 2012

Southwest Fox 2011 was a great success. Now we’re trying to figure out what form next year’s event will take. You can help us by answering a few questions about your preferences. Please take the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VCCKNDG, so we can include your input.

By Tamar Granor, ago

In case you are unaware, there are a lot of FoxPro user groups and regional conferences hosting Southwest Fox Rehearsals, you might want to check out a relatively new page on the Southwest Fox Web site: Session Rehearsals Rehearsals are important for a couple of reasons: Speakers refine and enhance their sessions based on feedback. Frees up slots of sessions already seen so you can see other sessions during the conference. Learn in advance of Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago