Southwest Fox Conference Blog

VFP Boot Camp Held Immediately Following Southwest Fox

Visionpace is presenting the highly-acclaimed VFP Boot Camp immediately following Southwest Fox. This event delivers three jam-packed days of solid, hands-on learning. From the fundamentals of VFP development through the very latest VFP 9.0 features, this boot camp is designed to quickly get your VFP skills up to speed. Attendees will receive a 500 page manual in both print and electronic format. The three-day boot camp begins on Sunday, October 19th from 2:30 – 6:00 Read more…

By Doug Hennig, ago

Interesting Early Statistics

I spent a little time this week preparing for an interview about Southwest Fox on The Fox Show, (not posted yet), and came across some interesting statistics with respect to the registrations. 31% of registrations are first time to Southwest Fox 11% of registrations are first time to a Visual FoxPro conference The way we receive registrations has definitely changed since we tweaked the registrations process a bit: 51% email 29% fax 13% snail mail Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

Another MDSN Subscription for Drawing

Microsoft MVP Dan Freeman of P+W Software has generously donated another MSDN Premium Subscription, bringing the total number available to seven. Altogether there is over $91,000 worth of prizes for drawing, including software licenses from Red Gate Software, SourceGear, ApexSQL, xSQL Software, and the German FoxPro User Group.

By Doug Hennig, ago

Scholarship Winner Announcement

Yesterday I had the distinct pleasure of talking with D.J Scullin of Elkhorn Wisconsin. I let him know he is the winner of the White Light Computing $300 scholarship to attend Southwest Fox. Well, his employer is the really the winner {g}. This is D.J’s first trip to Southwest Fox and his first ever VFP conference! He is very excited to have the opportunity to travel to Mesa this October to meet more VFP developers. Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

Registration One-Day Record Set

The pace of registrations yesterday was exhilarating and exhausting, but at the end of the day I processed 22 registrations. This sets a new one-day record for Geek Gatherings. The previous day record was 14. Fingers are soar and I am behind on the processing of the registrations. So if you are thinking you missed the deadline to save on the early-bird, your right. But…we are a group who believe in second chances. {g} Based Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

Registrations heating up, so are prizes

My day started with some sweet news I wanted to share with everyone. Just in case you have not read the news on the Southwest Fox site, I wanted to let you know that Tightline Computers has donated three licenses for Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite and MSDN Premium Subscription (1-year), valued at US$11,000 EACH. That means we have six licenses to give away! Imagine yourself returning to the office on October Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

Hurry to get early-bird Discounts

Hear that sound? Tick, tick, tick, tick… That’s the countdown clock here at Geek Gatherings getting closer to the early-bird deadline for Southwest Fox! July 1 is less than a week away and we thought we would pass along a reminder just in case you forgot to type it into your task list, or stick it on your monitor on a yellow sticky note. Southwest Fox takes place October 16-19, 2008 in Mesa, Arizona and Read more…

By Tamar Granor, ago

Door Prizes: Special Announcement

The three organizers (Rick, Doug, and Tamar) from Geek Gatherings are each donating one copy of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite and MSDN Premium Subscription (1-year) as give-aways for Southwest Fox 2008. The subscription retails from Microsoft for US$10,939. Three lucky attendees will walk away from the conference with all of Microsoft’s top-of-the-line “everything package for developers”, which includes all the Microsoft developer tools, server products, operating systems, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Read more…

By Rick Schummer, ago

Southwest Fox Just Got Better

Southwest Fox 2008 Gold sponsor xSQL Software is giving away a free license of xSQL Data Compare Pro (a $399 value — allows you to compare and synchronize data in two SQL Server databases) to every conference participant. What a great offset of the conference price – you pay $695 for the conference and get back more than half of it ($399) with this offer alone! Even better, you’ll receive your free license as soon Read more…

By Doug Hennig, ago