Southwest Fox Conference Blog

VFPX Administrator’s Outstanding Service Award

At the keynote presentation for Southwest Fox 2008, the administrators of VFPX (Craig Boyd, Rick Schummer, and Doug Hennig) presented Bo Durban with the first VFPX Administrator’s Outstanding Service Award. Bo has been one of the driving forces in GDIPlusX, a key project in VFPX that not only brings amazing graphics functionality to VFP but is also the foundation for several other very cool projects such as the Themed Controls project. Congratulations, Bo; very well Read more…

By Doug Hennig, ago

Southwest Fox Videos Available

Thanks to Steve Bodnar, videos of the keynote presentation and the VFPX meeting at Southwest Fox 2008 are available for viewing at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/swfoxtv. Among the items things shown in the keynote are an update on the VFP Studio project by Craig Boyd and Bo Durban. As far as we know, this is the first VFP conference that had live streaming video of sessions for people who could not attend the conference.

By Doug Hennig, ago

Southwest Fox 2008 is almost here

I want to take a moment and make a quick post for some last minute things about the conference. All people registered for the conference should get the fourth and final email update on Monday. If you have not received the first three please email us as soon as you are done reading this post so we can resend. Monday’s email will have the link, user name, and password to the session downloads so you Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

Still time to register

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…

By Rick Schummer, ago

Southwest Fox Polo Shirts

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…

By Doug Hennig, ago

Southwest Fox News

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…

By Doug Hennig, ago

Creating Your Personalized Schedule

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…

By Doug Hennig, ago

Southwest Fox News

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…

By Doug Hennig, ago