Based on our customer feedback we have released a new version of the Conference Registration applet. If you have already installed the first release (Build 151) you can install the new version (build 161) right over the existing folder. All your data will be preserved, but a new version of the EXE and the Help file will get installed. The newest build is a full install if you have not installed this applet at all. Read more…
We announced the speaker and session lineup for Southwest Fox 2009 today. This year was the hardest yet selecting from the list of proposals because we had a record number of submissions. Once again, there are great topics such as using Visual Earth in VFP applications, implementing MySQL, getting the most out of FoxCharts, and adding full-text search to your applications. Registration is now open, so be sure to sign up today for a fun Read more…
We are pleased to announce that César Chalom has been selected as the 2009 Ceil Silver Ambassador. He will attend Southwest Fox 2009 and represent the Brazilian VFP community. César, a software developer from São Paulo, Brazil, has worked with Visual FoxPro since 2003, and is an active member of the Brazilian VFP community. He has attended the Brazilian VFP conference since 2004 and presented sessions at the conference in 2006 and 2008. He is Read more…
We’re deep into the speaker and session selection process and it’s harder this year than ever before. We have a record number of submissions, both of speakers and topics. What makes this really exciting is the number of submissions from “Southwest Fox virgins.” We received proposals from 27 people, nearly twice as many as we need. About half of the 27 have never spoken at Southwest Fox before; some have previously spoken only at user Read more…
Today is the day the session proposals from potential speakers are due. If you sent topics in for consideration and did not get a response from Tamar, please resend them to speakers AT swfox DOT net. You can also copy to info AT swfox DOT net if you want to have a backup submission.
Session proposals for Southwest Fox 2009 are due by Monday, March 16. We’ve already received quite a few, including a number from people who haven’t spoken at Southwest Fox before, but we’re happy to get more. So if you have something to share with the VFP community, please visit http://www.swfox.net/callforspeakers.aspx, read the Call for Sand download the proposal submission application. We can’t wait to hear from you. We hope this year is the hardest one Read more…
Today we released the Call for Speakers for Southwest Fox 2009. Anyone interested in presenting should visit http://www.swfox.net/callforspeakers.aspx, read the Call for Speakers, and download the proposal submission application. Session proposals are due by March 16. We’re hoping to add a track this year called Technology for the VFP Developer. It’ll cover things other than VFP that make life easier for FoxPro developers, like source control and virtual machines. Of course, we still plan to Read more…
Are you hanging out on Twitter with the rest of your FoxPro friends? No? No problem, you can still follow along at http://twitter.com/swfox to get up to date news on the best Visual FoxPro conference in North America. Like to follow this blog to get the latest news, no problem again. You can count on this blog for all the news that is about Southwest Fox. Even more details will be posted on the conference Read more…
Back in October we announced the formation of the Southwest Fox Ambassador Fund. On January 3rd our dear friend Ceil Silver passed away after an extended battle with Melanoma. You can read some terrific writing by Ceil as she chronicled her battle with cancer on her blog “Too Much Me.” You can also read a wonderful message from her daughters after her passing too. Today I am officially announcing a name change with her daughters’ Read more…
Twitter is one of many social networking tools where friends/followers read posts about what someone is working on, something happened in their life they want to share, debate world events, get advice personal and professionally, and generally interact or converse with each other. Twitter is known as micro-blogging and each post is limited to 140 characters. Each post is known as a tweet. One of the uses of Twitter that has bubbled up in the Read more…