Southwest Fox Conference Blog

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

Keeping conference delegates informed

Conferences are dynamic in nature and organizers have a lot of details to pass along to the people who come each year. The Southwest Fox organizers process communication via email and we normally get high marks for keeping people informed. We already have sent out three emails to people who are registered: 1) Early August Added Eric Selje as speaker, hotel change reminder, international travel information, request for Show Us Your App, door prizes, books Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

Speaker Ch-ch-changes…

We have some news to share about our speaker line up for Southwest Fox 2010. We are disappointed that Craig Boyd will be unable to present at Southwest Fox 2010; we look forward to his return in the future. We are delighted that Jody Meyer has agreed to step in. She’ll present two topics: “Web Development using CSS – 101” and “It’s Easy & It’s Green: PDF Output.”  Jody did a terrific job as a Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

Early Bird deadline rapidly approaching!

There is still time to get in on Early Bird Registration for Southwest Fox 2010! Register before September 1st and the Early Bird discount saves you $50 over regular conference registration. Southwest Fox is an incredible value. This year’s conference, to be held October 14-17, includes 15 speakers, 26 different sessions in the main conference, and 4 pre-conference topics. Plus, if you’re a member of a registered VFP user group, when you attend Southwest Fox, Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Two Great Reasons to Attend Southwest Fox

Kevin Ragsdale blogged about two good reasons to attend Southwest Fox this year. His reasons were the previews Bo Durban and Steve Ellenoff give for their Southwest Fox sessions. I especially liked these comments: “During Bo’s session, my mind was spinning with new ways of approaching the web browser control in my apps. I couldn’t wait to get home so I could start working on them. Some of them I’ve already tried, and the speed Read more…

By Doug Hennig, ago

Southwest Fox 2010 Change of Venue

We have a big change for Southwest Fox we need to share with you. For the last three years, we have held Southwest Fox at the Arizona Golf Resort and Conference Center. Until recently we expected this would be true for Southwest Fox 2010 as well. Due to a change in the ownership of the Arizona Golf Resort, we have made the difficult decision to relocate. We are happy to announce Southwest Fox 2010 is Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Southwest Fox 2010 News Update

Southwest Fox 2010 SuperSaver deadline approaches Your opportunity to save big on registration for Southwest Fox ends soon. Super-saver registration offers $125 off the price of the conference, and gives you one free half-day pre-conference session, for total savings of $224. In addition, you’ll be eligible for drawings of three $150 scholarships, a copy of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN ( a $11,899 value), a license of Stonefield Query SDK (a $6,000 value), and Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

New Southwest Fox scholarship

Since we started running Southwest Fox, White Light Computing, Rick Schummer’s company, has offered one or more scholarships, to reduce costs for a few Southwest Fox attendees. This year, my company, Tomorrow’s Solutions, is offering a new scholarship. I have a theory that going to the first conference is the hardest, so this scholarship is open only to those who haven’t attended Southwest Fox in the years that Rick, Doug and I have run it Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago