More Southwest Fox News

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 when she presented at last year's Southwest Fox and we're happy to have her back.

Listen to FoxShow #68, in which Eric Selje discusses his sessions on extending web applications with VFP and getting into the VFP2C32 library.

Amongst our more than $65,000 in door prizes are four copies of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN, worth $11,899 each!

Kevin Ragsdale has another gem in his series of posts on Southwest Fox, this time discussing the Ceil Silver Ambassador Fund.

Only five weeks until Southwest Fox!

More Southwest Fox Links

Kevin Ragsdale has two more excellent blog posts about Southwest Fox sessions he’s been at in the past and what he’s looking forward to seeing this year: Christof Is A Freaking Genius and My Favorite Teacher Is Speaking At Southwest Fox.

The FoxShow has three episodes related to Southwest Fox: FoxShow #65, with Rick Schummer, Tamar Granor, and me discussing this year’s conference, FoxShow #66, in which Toni Feltman discusses her Lean/Agile and Pomodoro sessions, and FoxShow #67, in which Rick Borup discusses his Design Patterns and Ruby and Rails sessions. Andrew apparently has another one coming up featuring Eric Selje.

Southwest Fox starts six weeks from today. Have you registered yet?

More Looking at Stonefield Query

George Jensen of CustomerFX has added several more posts about his experience learning Stonefield Query. Check out his articles: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5.

Quote of the Conference

Kevin once again has a great blog post, this time about Tamar’s Southwest Fox session on business objects. His “kick me in the gut” moment was when Tamar pointed out that by separating user interface from business logic, you free your application from the limitations of the UI, making redesign and testing much easier (I’m paraphrasing and extrapolating from what Kevin said).

Like Kevin, I’m looking forward to Tamar’s Collections: Managing Information the Object-Oriented Way session at this year’s conference.

Southwest Fox 2010 Early-Bird Deadline Next Week

There is still time before September 1st to get in on the Early-Bird Registration for Southwest Fox 2010! The Early-Bird discount saves you $50 over our regular conference registration.

This year's conference, held October 14-17, includes 15 speakers, 26 different sessions in the main conference, 4 pre-conference topics, and a free one-day VFP to Silverlight post-conference workshop. Plus, if you're a member of a registered VFP user group, when you attend Southwest Fox, your user group receives $25.

In case you haven’t heard, we made a change in venue back in late July. The conference moved to a new location: SanTan Elegante Conference & Reception Center/Legado Hotel. Room rates are "run of the house" at $119 a night. You can find all the details at http://swfox.net/hotel.aspx. The room block for the conference is held through September 13th; after that room availability and pricing is determined by the hotel.

We are planning to add a "Show Us Your App" bonus session based on the success of the session the last couple of years.

Got suggestions? info@swfox.net Got questions? info@swfox.net Got registrations? register@swfox.net, or you can call the Geek Gatherings' World Headquarters at 586.254.2530.

Read about the registration process and get the registration application here: http://www.swfox.net/register.aspx

Follow the news about the conference on our blog: http://swfox.net/blog/index.htm

Use our brochure to convince your boss (or spouse or SO) to let you go: http://www.swfox.net/brochure.pdf

Only 48 days until we meet in Gilbert. Hope to see you there.

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 increase on displaying HTML in my app is incredible. And this means Bo’s session alone is worth the cost of the conference to me.”

“In short, Steve’s done a ton of work that I have avoided like the plague.”

Of course, I think there’s a lot more than two good reasons: more like 200! One for each session (you learn a lot in each one), one for each speaker (you get to hang out with and pick the brains of the brightest VFP developers on the planet for free!), one for each attendee (networking with other developers is one of the most important reasons to attend any conference), plus the food, the fun (don’t forget go-karts this year!), and the gorgeous Phoenix weather.

If you haven’t already registered for Southwest Fox, check out the session line-up and who else is coming that you might like to meet or renew acquaintances with, then sign up for Southwest Fox before the September 1 early-bird deadline.

Looking at Stonefield Query

George Jensen of CustomerFX has been blogging about his experience learning Stonefield Query (specifically the SalesLogix version but it’s applicable to all versions). Check out his articles: part 1 and part 2.

2010 FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award Nominations

The FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award honors those individuals who have contributed a great deal to the FoxPro community over the years. See http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~FoxProCommunityLifetimeAchievementAward~VFP for previous award recipients.

These recipients wish to continue the award and have created a committee to select one or more recipients for 2010. The committee consists of previous recipients Whil Hentzen, Rick Strahl, Doug Hennig, Tamar Granor, and Rainer Becker, as well as Alan Griver (yag) of Microsoft and Naomi Nosonovsky representing the FoxPro community.

To submit your nominations for the 2010 recipients, please email me (dhennig AT stonefield DOT com) by August 15, 2010.

Stonefield Query 4.0 Released

We are pleased to announce the immediate release of the Stonefield Query SDK version 4.0. There are lots of new and improved features in version 4.0; see the Stonefield Query blog for details.

We have videos covering the new features in the SDK and in the Report Designer.