October is here. Southwest Fox is this month. Holy cow, Southwest Fox is THIS month? Already. Okay, I should have realized this before based on the flurry of emails between Doug, Tamar and I, but last week it hit me that we are weeks away from heading to Mesa. Decisions on the food, finalizing the conference booklet (already over 40 pages this year) and eval forms, sending in the speaker and t-shirt orders, figuring out Read more…
Every Southwest Fox registrant gets a t-shirt at conference check-in. In addition, we’re selling polo shirts with an embroidered Southwest Fox logo. The order form is available on the Web site (http://swfox.net/SWFPoloShirtOrder2008.doc). White shirts, available in a variety of sizes and in both mens’ and womens’ styles, are $50 each. Great for souvenirs for family and geek friends back in the office. The deadline to order shirts is September 30th if you want them in Read more…
As we get closer to the conference (it starts four weeks from today), the news gets as hot as the Phoenix weather! Visionpace is offering a free six-month subscription (or a six-month extension for existing subscribers) for Visual MaxFrame Professional (VMP) to all Southwest Fox attendees. Between all the offers (VMP, xSQL, and CoDe magazine) and prizes to be won (over $100,000), this conference will pay for itself before you attend your first session! Five Read more…
Dave Aring of Visionpace has created a very cool session scheduling application for Southwest Fox called Kokopelli (the name of the figure with the flute in our logo). It automates the selection of the sessions you want to see and even creates a handy printed schedule that fits in your conference badge. Download the ZIP file and extract it in its own directory, then run Kokopelli.EXE; it requires that VFP 8 or 9 be installed Read more…
The Southwest Fox 2008 session schedule is now available. One thing you might note is that we’ve planned a dinner party for Friday night this year. Also, vendor sessions are held concurrently with other sessions rather than in the evenings as they were last year. I posted a new video demoing one of the cool features I’m showing in my session on Advantage Database Server: full text search capabilities, even against VFP tables. Former VFP Read more…
If you do the math with respect to 15 slots and 32 sessions you quickly realize you cannot see all the sessions at Southwest Fox 2008. Impossible, and one of the main reasons the organizers demand the speakers do a white paper for the sessions. So you might be asking: short of cloning or a time machine, how can I see more than 15 sessions offered at Southwest Fox? Simple, go to more sessions. {g} Read more…
EPS Software is offering a free CoDe Magazine subscription to each Southwest Fox attendee. The value for this conference just keeps going up and up!
For the second straight year, the exhibitors area for Southwest Fox has sold out. Look for these exhibitors at this year’s conference: White Light Computing Stonefield Software Sybase iAnywhere Servoy Micromega Systems Moxie Data VFPConversion West Wind Technologies DBI Technologies GenXus All but one (VFPConversion) were at last year’s Southwest Fox. See the Exhibitors page of the conference Web site for details.
Rick Schummer recorded a short teaser video for his Extending the Sedna Data Explorer. You can check it out on the Southwest Fox Video page. Please take a look and let us know what you think.
If you have been trying to call the Geek Gatherings phone the past couple of days, we apologize for the disconnect you are experiencing. AT&T; is on the case and tech support thinks the problem will be corrected by Monday, if not sooner. If there is something you need you can email us at info AT swfox DOT net, or call Rick on his cell phone (586.940.0081).