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You probably know that Virtual Fox Fest 2026 is October 21-22, 2026, but maybe you haven’t had a chance to take a look at our great set of sessions. Here are the links so you can check them out:
- Using Chilkat/ChilkatVFP (Bill Anderson)
- The VFP Developers Toolkit (Rick Borup)
- Visual FoxPro Development using Alternative Editors – OnDemand (Gregory Green)
- Consuming REST Services in VFP Applications (Doug Hennig)
- Using AI to research and document a Visual Foxpro App you’ve inherited (Jeff Roberts)
- FoxAgent: Connecting AI Agents to Live VFP Applications with X# and MCP (Irwin Alfredo Rodríguez)
- VFP in 2026: easy mods to help keep your apps current (John Ryan)
- How VFPX Can Make You More of a Superhero! (Rick Schummer)
- Visiting SQL Server’s engine room (Christof Wollenhaupt)
Registration is US$219 by August 31st, so save yourself US$20 by registering today before the price increases on September 1st. This cost includes admission to all live sessions, all session materials (white papers and samples), immediate access to all recorded videos of the presentations, and access to online social events.
Register here: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration.
Order your Virtual Fox Fest gear from https://geekgatherings.logosoftwear.com/. Increase your geek credentials by purchasing shirts, hats, hoodies, fleeces and more with the conference logo.
The Geek Gatherings YouTube Channel has more than 110 videos with session content from Virtual Fox Fest and Southwest Fox conferences over the last six years. That is nearly 140 hours of viewing.
Virtual Fox Fest 2026 is a two-day event on October 21-22, 2026. Great speakers will deliver great sessions, with chat available for all of us to comment, ask questions, and share experiences. Plus, we’ll get to hang out virtually with new and old friends. More details here: https://virtualfoxfest.com/
Registration is open! Details, deadlines and cost are available on our Web site. Register for the conference at https://geekgatherings.com/Registration. Don’t procrastinate, get this done today! Early-Bird pricing is available through August 31st.
Just a reminder that the deadline to submit session proposals for Virtual Fox Fest 2026 is next Monday, June 1st. You’ll find details on our Call for Speakers page, https://virtualfoxfest.com/CallForSpeakers.aspx. We look forward to your ideas and session proposals.
Virtual Fox Fest is October 21-22, 2026!
We’ve issued the Call for Speakers for Virtual Fox Fest 2026. If you are interested in presenting, please read the document referenced on that page before submitting sessions.
Virtual Fox Fest 2026 is a two-day online conference presenting the latest in Visual FoxPro and Visual FoxPro Advanced development techniques and interoperability with other technologies. This conference provides a venue for VFP developers to come together virtually to learn more about how our fellow developers are using and extending VFP. For details about Virtual Fox Fest, please see https://virtualfoxfest.com.
If you haven’t already marked your calendar, do it now. The conference is going to be on October 21st -22nd, 2026.
We’re excited to offer you Virtual Fox Fest 2026 (Oct), a two-day online conference presenting the latest in Microsoft Visual FoxPro development techniques and interoperability with other technologies. This conference provides a venue for VFP developers to come together virtually to learn more about how our fellow developers are using and extending VFP. For details about Virtual Fox Fest, please see https://virtualfoxfest.com.
The conference will be held on October 21st – 22nd, 2026. This is the only event we are planning for 2026.
We’ll issue the Call for Speakers for Virtual Fox Fest later in the Spring. If you are interested in presenting, please watch your emails and our public posts for the submission deadlines.
Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (October) is on October 29th and 30th, 2025. If you plan to attend the conference, please register today. It only takes a couple of minutes, and we only get busier the closer we get to the conference. https://geekgatherings.com/Registration.
The first email with conference details will be sent on Monday, October 20 to those who are registered.
Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (October) is on Wednesday, October 29 and Thursday October 30, 2025.
This Tuesday (September 30th) is the last day you can save US$40, so please go register now. If you wait until Wednesday, the price goes up to US$279.
You probably know that Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (Oct) is October 29-30, 2025, but maybe you haven’t had a chance to take a look at our great set of sessions. Here are the links so you can check them out:
- Introducing SideKick (Tore Bleken)
- The VFP Developer’s Guide to Git and Sourcetree (Rick Borup)
- It’s time to RESTful with XSharp (Fabrice Foray)
- Lessons in buffering and transactions (Tamar E. Granor)
- Document and Email Management in VFP Applications (Doug Hennig)
- SQL Server Mash-Up (Jody L. Meyer)
- J, J, J… SON, SON, SON… – Using SQL Server’s Killer Built-in JSON Functionality (Kevin Ragsdale)
- VFP C++ Compiler: options and settings for modern, secure applications (John Ryan)
- Using Google Calendar in VFP (Tuvia Vinitsky)
- Git Advanced Techniques (Christof Wollenhaupt)
Registration is US$239 before October 1st, so save yourself US$40 by registering today. This cost includes admission to all live sessions, all session materials (white papers and samples), immediate access to all recorded videos of the presentations, and access to online social events.
Register here: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration.
The Geek Gatherings YouTube Channel has more than 70 videos with session content from Virtual Fox Fest and Southwest Fox conferences over the last five years. That is nearly 90 hours of viewing. Those who subscribe to the channel may already know this, but we recently released all the Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (May) videos for your viewing pleasure.
Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (Oct) is a two-day event on October 29-30, 2025. We have some great speakers delivering great sessions, live chatting during presentations, and getting to hang out virtually with new and old friends. More details here: https://virtualfoxfest.com/
Registration is open! Details, deadlines and cost are available on our Web site. You register for the conference here: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration. Don’t procrastinate, get this done today!
Only 77 days until we gather on the Internet!
Each year, we post a list of topics suggested by attendees on the previous year’s conference evaluations to help people who want to submit proposals. (Here are the last few versions: 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.)
Here’s this year’s list with suggestions from both Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (May) and Southwest Fox 2024:
- More on VFPA
- X#
- SQL Server, including with JSON
- Comparing SQL back-ends
- DotNetBridge examples
- Optimizing VFP memory/cache managements
- West West .NET connections/possibilities
- VFPX
- Developer Tips, Tricks & Traps
- Paperless reporting in the modern era
If there are topics you’d like to hear about at Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (October), please add them in the comments. If you’re interested in speaking at Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (October), check out the Call for Speakers.
Plus Save the Date for OctoberVirtual Fox Fest 2025 (May) is on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. If you plan to attend the conference, please register today. It only takes a couple of minutes, and we only get busier the closer we get to the conference. https://geekgatherings.com/Registration.
The first email with conference details will be sent tomorrow (April 29) to those who are registered.
Save the dateWe’re excited to offer you Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (Oct), a two-day online conference presenting the latest in Microsoft Visual FoxPro development techniques and interoperability with other technologies. This conference provides a venue for VFP developers to come together virtually to learn more about how our fellow developers are using and extending VFP.
The conference will take place on October 29th and 30th, 2025 on RingCentral Events.
Unfortunately, given the current situation in the United States (especially at the US border) and knowing that a significant percentage of conference attendees come from outside the US, we don’t think running an in-person event this fall is practical. Instead, we are planning a virtual event this fall and hope that things improve in time for a Fall 2026 event. Stay tuned for our Call for Speakers in the coming weeks.
Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (May) is on Wednesday, May 7, 2025.
Today (April 22nd) is the last day you can save $20, so please go register now. If you wait until tomorrow, the price goes up to $139.
Only 15 days until we gather on the Internet!
You probably know that Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (May) is on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, but maybe you haven’t had a chance to take a look at our great set of sessions. Here are the links so you can check them out:
- Hidden Treasures: The FoxPro Foundation Classes (Borup, Rick)
- Can’t This Application Go Any Faster? (Granor, Tamar E.)
- Practical Version Control: Using Git and GitHub in Your Daily Work (Hennig, Doug)
- 64-bit VFP Development (Ryan, John)
- The Security Cookbook (Wollenhaupt, Christof)
The Geek Gatherings YouTube Channel has over 65 videos with session content from past Virtual Fox Fest and Southwest Fox conferences over the last five years. That is over 80 hours of viewing.
Registration is US$119 before April 23rd, so save yourself US$20 by registering today. This cost includes admission to all live sessions, all session materials (white papers and samples), immediate access to all recorded videos of the presentations, and access to online social events.
Register here: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration.
Virtual Fox Fest 2025 (May) is a one-day event on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. We have some great speakers delivering great sessions, live chatting during presentations, and getting to hang out virtually with new and old friends. This event will feature classic sessions (from previous conferences), updated for 2025, along with at least one brand new session. More details here: https://virtualfoxfest.com/
Registration is open! Details, deadlines and cost are available on our Web site. You register for the conference here: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration. Don’t procrastinate, get this done today!
Only 44 days until we gather on the Internet!
Thanks to our generous speakers stepping up and shouldering some of the financial risks, additional sponsorship, and our hope that the community will respond with more registrations, we are announcing that Southwest Fox 2024 will go on as planned in-person and virtually September 26-29, 2024. That said, it is with heavy hearts that we announce this is the final in-person Southwest Fox conference that we are going to put on as it’s clear the economics no longer work. Our plan is to move forward with Virtual Fox Fests in the future.
This is your last chance to hang out with the Fox gang in Phoenix, so if you were thinking about attending sometime, this is the time.
A final reminder, the Early-Bird discount expires today, Wednesday, July 31st. https://geekgatherings.com/Registration
Contact Us:
– Interested in being a sponsor? Contact our sponsor representative: sponsors@geekgatherings.com
– If you have ideas or suggestions for this year’s Southwest Fox, please email them to: info@geekgatherings.com
– If you have a friend who wants to be on our mailing list, please tell them to go to the conference home page and sign up https://swfox.net.
– Call: 586.254.2530
We really want to have an in-person Southwest Fox conference. If you plan to be at the in-person conference, please register today if you have not already done so. We are still short of our minimum to make the in-person side of the conference happen by six people. Even if we get six more in-person registrations, we are taking a financial risk. If you plan to attend virtually, please register for the virtual conference as this impacts the choice we have to make in the coming days.
Plus, if you register now, you get the early-bird discount, which expires on August 1.
For those signed up for the in-person conference, do not make plane reservations until we announce the decision for the in-person conference, which we expect to make this Friday, July 26th.
The conference takes place September 26-29, 2024 in Scottsdale, Arizona and we really hope you can be there. Head over to the registration Web site now: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration
Contact Us:
Interested in being a sponsor? Contact our sponsor representative: sponsors@geekgatherings.com
If you have ideas or suggestions for this year’s Southwest Fox, please email them to: info@geekgatherings.com
If you have a friend who wants to be on our mailing list, please tell them to go to the conference home page and sign up https://swfox.net.
Call: 586.254.2530
We really want to have an in-person conference. We love the chance to see members of our community face-to-face and interact both during conference hours and outside them. If that matters to you, we need you to show up this year. Without at least 15 more in-person registrations by July 26, we will have to switch to an all-virtual conference, and we won’t be planning any future in-person events. For those signed up for the in-person conference, do not make plane reservations until we announce the decision for the in-person conference, which we expect to make soon after July 26th.
The conference takes place September 26-29, 2024 in Scottsdale, Arizona and we really hope you can be there. Head over to the registration Web site today: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration
Contact Us:
- Interested in being a sponsor? Contact our sponsor representative: sponsors@geekgatherings.com
- If you have ideas or suggestions for this year’s Southwest Fox, please email them to: info@geekgatherings.com
- If you have a friend who wants to be on our mailing list, please tell them to go to the conference home page and sign up https://swfox.net.
- Call: 586.254.2530
Register now and save our fingernailsHear that sound? Tick, tick, tick, tick…
That’s the countdown clock here at Geek Gatherings getting closer to the Super-saver deadline for Southwest Fox! June 30th is this Sunday and we thought we would pass along one more reminder just in case you forgot to add it your reminder list or put a yellow sticky note on your monitor. We still need people to register to make the in-person side of the conference happen.
Urgent: do not make plane reservations until we announce the decision for the in-person conference, which we expect to make in the coming weeks.
The conference takes place September 26-29, 2024 in Scottsdale, Arizona and we really hope you can be there. If you really want to attend in-person, we would hate to see you miss out on a seat in the room (the in-person limit is 40 registrations). Whether you plan to attend in-person or virtually, surely you don’t to lose out on the Super-saver discount ($200 for in-person or $100 for virtual).
Head over to the registration Web site today: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration
If you’ve already registered, we thank you. Please help us remind fellow developers who have been procrastinating about the looming deadline by sharing this email, spreading it on social media, or posting on a forum how great a previous Southwest Fox or Virtual Fox Fest conference was for you? You can also spread the word by telling others you’re going on our Facebook event.
Nitty-Gritty Details
Check out our list of amazing speakers and dig into our sessions. Follow the news about the conference and our blog.
Southwest Fox 2023 Videos
We plan to release the videos for the following sessions in early July.
- Advanced Reporting with Microsoft Excel
- ParallelFox 2.0
- Logging: Clear Cut Solutions for Your Apps
As an added incentive, if the Early-Bird registrations are good (meaning we are not chewing our fingernails), we will also release these sessions at the same time:
- Optimize Your IDE: Take Full Advantage of Thor Tools Part 1
- Team Git: Collaboration Made Easy
- Modern Authentication with VFP
Contact Us:
- Interested in being a sponsor? Contact our sponsor representative: sponsors@geekgatherings.com
- If you have ideas or suggestions for this year’s Southwest Fox, please email them to: info@geekgatherings.com
- If you have a friend who wants to be on our mailing list, please tell them to go to the conference home page and sign up https://swfox.net.
- Call: 586.254.2530
Please beat the rush so we still have some fingernails left when July begins!
We appreciate all the support people have shown for the in-person conference with early registrations. We look forward to getting many more this week as we get closer to make the “in-person go” decision; otherwise, we will be all virtual. If you’re planning to attend the virtual conference, please register now as it helps in our decision-making process.
We have officially opened registration for Southwest Fox 2024! The highly acclaimed developer conference is September 26-29, 2024.
Southwest Fox is a hybrid conference: in-person and virtual. The in-person event will be held at the Hampton Inn & Suites Phoenix-Scottsdale, the same location as last year, in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale. The virtual event will use the RingCentral platform (the same platform we use for Virtual Fox Fest). All sessions will be presented in a single room and will be streamed to the virtual event and recorded. This year we plan to add a second screen so people can see the presentations easier from the back of the room.
The in-person conference room is small, so we have to limit registrations for the in-person event to the first 40 people who register. Those who are not in the first 40 will be added to a wait list or can decide to register for the virtual event. The virtual side of Southwest Fox can handle an unlimited number of attendees. If you really want to attend in-person, we suggest you register as soon as practical.
Super-Saver Registration for in-person, which saves you $200 (or $100 for virtual), is available only through June 30th, so don’t wait. Head over to the registration Web site today: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration. You’ll have to select either the in-person event or the virtual event.
Registration fees start at $599 for in-person and $349 for virtual. More details are available on the conference’s registration page.
Important hotel details
We have a limited number of rooms at the hotel for those attending in-person. We will send you the link once we process your registration.
Flights
Please do NOT book your flights yet. Our hotel contract gives us some flexibility to see how registration is going before we’re absolutely committed. We’ll let you know when it’s time to book.
Here is what you can expect from Southwest Fox:
- Terrific selection of sessions from great presenters.
- A total of 15 regular conference topics to pack your days with learning opportunities and inspiration.
- Half-days on Thursday and Sunday for a more relaxed schedule and to make it easier for the virtual attendees.
- Lunch Friday and Saturday for all in-person attendees.
The conference website has been updated with this year’s information and includes:
- News about the sessions and speakers.
- The general schedule.
- Specifics about the conference hotel.
- The conference blog where you can find our thoughts and perspectives.
- The link to our X (Twitter) feed.
- Opportunities for conference sponsorship.
- Ways you can help us promote the conference.
Contact Us
- Interested in being a sponsor? Contact our sponsor representative: sponsors@geekgatherings.com
- If you have ideas or suggestions for this year’s Southwest Fox, please email them to: info@geekgatherings.com.
- If you have a friend who wants to be on our mailing list, please tell them to go to the conference home page and sign up: https://swfox.net
Make sure to share the news about the conference to all your developer friends. We appreciate any help with marketing and word of mouth is one of the best ways to spread the news about our conference.
Virtual Fox Fest 2024 is on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, which is less than three weeks from now! We are getting close, and the preparations are in full swing.
Ready to sign up? Just click https://geekgatherings.com/Registration.
Speaking of getting close, the Geek Gatherings YouTube Channel is closing in on 1000 subscribers and we would love to leap over this milestone. Please subscribe and check the notification bell so you can be one of the first to learn when we release the videos from last year’s Southwest Fox. The channel has over 60 videos with session content from all the Virtual Fox Fest conferences over the last four years. That is over 75 hours of viewing. Here is a link to a session from 2022:
DevOps with Visual FoxPro (Joel Leach)
Virtual Fox Fest 2024 is on Wednesday, May 8, 2024.
You can see which of your peers have registered and opted into the conference Who’s Coming List. We would love to see your name added this coming week if you still need to get registered. Ready to sign up? Just click https://geekgatherings.com/Registration.
The Geek Gatherings YouTube Channel has over 60 videos with session content from all the Virtual Fox Fest conferences over the last four years. That is over 75 hours of viewing. Here is a link to a session from 2023:
Using the Visual FoxPro Debugger Effectively (Tamar E. Granor)
Virtual Fox Fest 2024 is a one-day event on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. We have some great speakers delivering great sessions, live chatting during presentations, and getting to hang out virtually with new and old friends. This event will feature classic sessions (from previous conferences), updated for 2024, along with at least one brand new session. More details here: https://virtualfoxfest.com/
Registration is open! Details, deadlines and cost are available on our Web site. You register for the conference here: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration. Don’t procrastinate, get this done today!
In case you missed it, we’ve already announced Southwest Fox 2024 in Arizona, September 26-29, 2024. More details for this hybrid conference coming in May. The in-person event will be held at the Hampton Inn & Suites Phoenix-Scottsdale and the virtual side on the Hopin platform via the Internet.
We’re excited to offer you Southwest Fox 2024, a hybrid conference; you decide whether to come in-person or watch online! The in-person event will be held at the Hampton Inn & Suites Phoenix-Scottsdale. The virtual event will use the Hopin platform (the same platform we use for Virtual Fox Fest). You can get more information on the Southwest Fox Conference Web page.
The conference will take place September 26-29, 2024.
Call for Speakers
We’ve issued the Call for Speakers for Southwest Fox. If you are interested in presenting, please read the document referenced on that page to learn about submitting sessions.
Only 213 days until we gather in Scottsdale and virtually via the Internet!
Each year, we post a list of topics suggested by attendees on the previous year’s conference evaluations to help people who want to submit proposals. (Here are the last few versions: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019.)
Here’s this year’s list with suggestions from both Virtual Fox Fest 2023 and Southwest Fox 2023:
- VFP Grid use
- Workarounds for well-known unsolved VFP bugs
- Thor tools
- Insights to Thor
- How to contribute to VFPX
- Chilkat use cases
- Moving from VFP to something else
- Moving from VFP to SQL Server or another database
- Integration of VFP with other technologies/tools
- Integration with .NET
- C#
- More web stuff
- Progress on X#
- SQL Server
- Interfacing with SQLite data
- BI
- Security/encryption
- Ideas on working with git
- Workflow/principles of other developers If there are topics you’d like to hear about at Southwest Fox 2024 (we’ve already selected the speakers and topics for Virtual Fox Fest 2024), please add them in the comments. If you’re interested in speaking at Southwest Fox 2024, check out the Call for Speakers.
We have locked in our dates for our 2024 conferences and hope you will save the dates to attend.
Our one-day Virtual Fox Fest 2024 will be Wednesday, May 8, 2024. It still has the same great features everyone loves about VFF: great speakers delivering great sessions, live chatting during presentations, and getting to hang out virtually with new and old friends. This event will feature classic sessions from previous conferences, updated for 2024.
We’re excited to offer you Southwest Fox 2024, a hybrid conference, September 26-29, 2024. You decide whether to come in person or watch online! The in-person event will be held at the Hampton Inn & Suites Phoenix-Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Arizona. The virtual event will use the Ring Central Hopin platform (the same platform we use for Virtual Fox Fest).
Web sites will be updated in the new year. Call for speakers will be announced later in February so get your ideas prepared.
And you can still register
| We have good news to share today. Thanks to the support of the Visual FoxPro community and our many sponsors, Southwest Fox 2023 will proceed as planned October 19-22, 2023 in Scottsdale, AZ and online via Hopin (now owned by RingCentral).We really appreciate all the support people have shown for the conference with registrations! That said, the decision comes with a calculated risk because we are still many registrations short of covering all the conference expenses. Please continue to spread the word to your colleagues, clients, user groups and anywhere else Visual FoxPro is spoken.If you haven’t yet registered, there’s still room for you: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration.If you’ve already registered for the in-person conference, you’ll receive a confirmation email soon that includes a link for our discounted hotel rate. We are pleased to announce Geekwear by Geek Gatherings. Order your Southwest Fox gear from https://geekgatherings.logosoftwear.com/. Choose from the options shown or create your own unique SWFox-wear. Contact Us: If you want to be a sponsor: vendors@geekgatherings.com If you have suggestions or ideas: info@geekgatherings.com If you have a friend who wants to be on our mailing list, please ask them to sign up on the conference home page to get future mailings. Call: 586.254.2530 |
The fate of Southwest Fox is being decided Wednesday (August 30). Help make the decision to keep this conference going easy. There is no more time for you to procrastinate. It simply is now or never.
If you are going to Southwest Fox this year (in-person or virtually), please head over to the registration Web site, right now, before you forget: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration
SET URGENT ONWe have to decide by August 31 whether to hold Southwest Fox 2023 or not. So far, registration for both the in-person and virtual conferences has been slow. We have three options: a hybrid conference as planned, a virtual conference only, or no conference. If you want us to decide to hold the conference, register (for either the in-person or virtual event) before August 30. Credit cards will not be charged until September. If you are registering for the in-person conference, DO NOT book travel until you hear our decision.
Please head over to the registration Web site today: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration.
Don’t miss this chance to learn from the best and mix with your peers.
XSharp Free Post-Conference Session The XSharp Team is planning a Sunday afternoon (10/22) vendor session called “Migrating Your VFP App to .NET with X#.” Check out our Workshops page for all the up-to-date details.
If you’ve already registered for the conference and want to attend this session, email register@geekgatherings.com and we’ll add you to the post-conference list.
Only 65 days until we hope to gather in Scottsdale!
Hear that sound? Tick, tick, tick, tick…
That’s the countdown clock here at Geek Gatherings getting closer to the Super-saver deadline for Southwest Fox! July 31st is this coming Monday and we thought we would pass along one more reminder just in case you forgot to add it your reminder list or put a yellow sticky note on your monitor. We still need people to register to make the in-person side of the conference happen.
Urgent: do not make plane reservations until we announce the decision for the in-person conference, which we expect to make in the coming weeks.
The conference takes place October 19-22, 2023 in Scottsdale, Arizona and we really hope you can be there. We would hate to see you lose out on the $100 discount and for those who really want to attend in-person, miss out on a spot in the first 50 registrations (the room limit we have for the conference space).
Head over to the registration Web site today: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration
If you’ve already registered, we thank you. Can you help us remind fellow developers who have been procrastinating about the looming deadline by sharing this email, sharing about it on social media, or posting on a forum how great a previous Southwest Fox or Virtual Fox Fest conference was for you? You can also spread the word by telling others you’re going on our Facebook event.
Nitty-Gritty Details
Check out our list of amazing speakers and dig into our sessions. Follow the news about the conference and our blog.
Contact Us: If you want to be a sponsor: vendors@geekgatherings.com
If you have suggestions or ideas: info@geekgatherings.com
If you have a friend who wants to be on our mailing list please send them to https://swfox.net where they can sign up to get future mailings.
Call: 586.254.2530
Please beat the rush so we still have some fingernails left when August begins!
We appreciate all the support people have shown for the in-person conference with early registrations. We look forward to getting many more this week as we need them to make the “in-person go” decision; otherwise, we will be all virtual. If you’re planning to attend the virtual conference, please register now as it helps in our decision-making process.
Speakers and sessions for Southwest Fox 2023 have been announced, and registration is open! There is a limit on the number of people who can attend in-person, and in less than 24 hours since registration opened, 1/3 of the spots have already been taken. So, if you’re considering attending in-person, register today or you’ll likely miss out! Also, Super-Saver Registration, which saves you $100, is available only through July 31st, so don’t wait. When registering, be sure to select the proper conference on the registration site: choose either the in-person event or the virtual event.
We’re excited to offer you Southwest Fox 2023, a hybrid conference; you decide whether to come in-person or watch online! The in-person event will be held at the Hampton Inn & Suites Phoenix-Scottsdale. The virtual event will use the Hopin platform (the same platform we use for Virtual Fox Fest). You can get more information on the Southwest Fox Conference Web page.
The conference will take place October 19-22, 2023.
We’ve issued the Call for Speakers for Southwest Fox. If you are interested in presenting, please read the document referenced on that page to learn about submitting sessions.
Each year, we post a list of topics suggested by attendees on the previous year’s conference evaluations to help people who want to submit proposals. (Here are the last few versions: 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019.)
Here’s this year’s list with suggestions from both Virtual Fox Fests held in 2022:
- Deep dives into everyday tools
- VFPX Chilkat project
- VFPX updates
- Thor
- Dealing with VFP’s dated interface
- Microsoft Office automation
- Advanced Automation techniques
- SQL Server
- Migrating to a back-end other than VFP
- More web stuff
- More security
- Active Directory integration
- X# and its progress
- VFP Advanced and real-world 64-bit experience
- .NET integration
- Source control
- How people use VFP
- General business topics (time management, business tools, etc.)
If there are topics you’d like to hear about about Southwest Fox 2023, please add them in the comments. If you’re interested in speaking at Southwest Fox 2023, check out the Call for Speakers.
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Last call! (We want to make sure we have your attention.) The Early-Bird discount ends midnight (North American Eastern time) on Wednesday, August 31, which is just a couple of days away. Here is the direct link to get registered! Virtual Fox Fest is October 13, 19, and 25, 2022!
Thanks to all who have already registered for Virtual Fox Fest; we appreciate your support and our speakers are excited to share all their sessions with you all soon. Please register for Virtual Fox Fest before September 1st, our Early-Bird deadline. We know you are interested in saving $50, and […]
Speakers and Sessions for Virtual Fox Fest 2022 (October) have been announced, and registration is open! Virtual Fox Fest is October 13, 19, and 25, 2022!
Plus Call for Speakers We’re excited to offer you Virtual Fox Fest 2022 (Oct), a three-day online conference presenting the latest in Microsoft Visual FoxPro development techniques and interoperability with other technologies. This conference provides a venue for VFP developers to come together virtually to learn more about how our fellow […]
Each year, we post a list of topics suggested by attendees on the previous year’s conference evaluations to help people who want to submit proposals. (Here are the last few versions: 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018.) Here’s this year’s list, with suggestions from Virtual Fox Fest 2021, organized and de-duped. […]
Register by 3 PM EDT on April 27 for a chance at great prizes from DBI Thank you to all who have registered for Virtual Fox Fest; we appreciate your support. We are down to the last minute and the registration squad is providing one last incentive to get you […]
Thanks to all who have registered for Virtual Fox Fest; we appreciate your support. This is another friendly reminder to the rest of you that it takes just a few minutes to register, here is the link: register me now Emails to registered attendees begin next week with all the details […]
Thanks to all who have registered for Virtual Fox Fest; we appreciate your support and our speakers are excited to share their sessions with you soon. There is only one month until the conference, and there’s no better time to get registered than today. It just takes just a few […]
Virtual Fox Fest 2022 (May) is a one-day event on Thursday, May 5, 2022. We have some great speakers delivering great sessions, live chatting during presentations, and getting to hang out virtually with new and old friends. This event will feature a mix of new and classic sessions from previous […]
Our one-day Virtual Fox Fest 2022 (May) will be Thursday, May 5, 2022. It still has the same great features everyone loves about VFF: great speakers delivering great sessions, live chatting during presentations, and getting to hang out virtually with new and old friends. This event will feature classic sessions from previous conferences, updated for 2022. We’re […]
Here are some follow-up notes about Virtual Fox Fest 2021 (October): Videos for all presentations are now available on YouTube for free to everyone, as our contribution to the VFP community. Be sure to subscribe to our channel. If you didn’t attend Virtual Fox Fest and want materials (white papers […]
Last call! (we want to make sure we have your attention) The Early Bird discount ends midnight (North American Eastern time) on Thursday, September 30. Here is the direct link to get registered! Virtual Fox Fest is October 14, 20, and 26, 2021! Only 15 days until we gather virtually […]
Thanks to all who have already registered for Virtual Fox Fest; we appreciate your support and our speakers are excited to share all their sessions with you all soon. There is less than a month until the first day of the conference! That said, we know there are procrastinators who […]
Speakers and Sessions for Virtual Fox Fest 2021 (October) have been announced, and registration is open! We hope to see lots of you online in October.
Topics for Virtual Fox Fest 2021 (October) are due Monday, June 7 Just a reminder that the deadline to submit session proposals for Virtual Fox Fest is next Monday, June 7th. You’ll find details on our Call for Speakers page, https://virtualfoxfest.com/CallForSpeakers.aspx. We look forward to your ideas and session proposals. […]
We’re excited to offer you Virtual Fox Fest 2021 (October), a three-day online conference presenting the latest in Microsoft Visual FoxPro development techniques and interoperability with other technologies. This conference provides a venue for VFP developers to come together virtually to learn more about how our fellow developers are using […]
Each year, we post a list of topics suggested by attendees on the previous year’s conference evaluations to help people who want to submit proposals. (Here are the last few versions: 2020, 2019, and 2018.) Here’s this year’s list, including suggestions from both Virtual Fox Fest 2020 and the one-day […]
Here are some follow-up notes about Virtual Fox Fest 2021 (May), the second online event hosted by Geek Gatherings: Videos for all presentations are now available on YouTube for free to everyone, as our contribution to the VFP community. Be sure to subscribe to our channel. If you didn’t attend Virtual Fox Fest […]
Virtual Fox Fest 2021 (May) is next week on May 6, 2021! Get registered today! https://geekgatherings.com/Registration Only 10 days until we gather virtually via the Internet! We look forward to seeing everyone soon. Tamar, Rick, and Doug
We’re glad so many of you have already registered for the May 6th Virtual Fox Fest. We still have room for many more of you. If you’re planning to attend, please register sooner rather than later. Our hard working registration staff (Rick) is an organizer, and has a full-time job […]
Thanks to all who have already registered for Virtual FoxFest (https://virtualfoxfest.com; May 6, 2021); we appreciate your support and our speakers are excited to share their sessions with you soon. That said, we know there are those who have not registered and have good intentions to do so before the […]
We had so much fun at Virtual Fox Fest 2020 that we’ve decided to do more online conferences. They won’t all be three-day events; in fact, the next one (Thursday, May 6, 2021) is a one-day event. However, it’ll still have the same great features everyone loves about VFF: great […]
We have 11 quick questions to help us plan future Virtual Fox Fest conferences. We would really appreciate your input: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/F8ZLX9J Happy Holidays and wishes for a healthy and prosperous 2021 to all.
Here are some follow-up notes about Virtual Fox Fest 2020, the first but likely not the last online event hosted by Geek Gatherings:
- Videos for all presentations are now available on YouTube for free to everyone, as our contribution to the VFP community. Be sure to subscribe to our channel.
- We’ve added the Chat logs from all the live sessions to the session materials, because our attendees added a tremendous amount of information and value.
- If you didn’t attend Virtual Fox Fest and want materials (white papers and sample code) for the presentations, go to https://geekgatherings.com/Registration and “register” for the conference. You’re not really registering since it’s over, but in the Registration Fees section of the registration page, you’ll see “Virtual Fox Fest 2020 Session Materials (download)”. The cost of the materials is $49. There’s also an opportunity to sponsor Virtual Fox Fest, which means your name will be listed on our Sponsors page.
- We’re planning on doing a survey soon. It’ll be sent to all attendees but if you want to participate so you can help shape future events, email info@geekgatherings.com and ask to be included.
- We have tentative dates for an in-person Southwest Fox conference next year: October 14-17, 2021, at the same location as previous years: the SanTan Conference Center in Gilbert, Arizona. At this point, we don’t know whether we’ll be able to have an in-person event, but hope springs eternal!
- If you didn’t attend Virtual Fox Fest, check out our Facebook page and see what you missed, then plan to attend a future one so you can join in the fun.
Virtual Fox Fest continues this week and next on October 21 and 27, 2020!
The posts on social media about the first day of Virtual Fox Fest are very uplifting, the sessions were informative and inspiring, and the camaraderie during the social time after the sessions was a lot of fun.
Does this make you wish you were part of the fun and learning? No worries, you can still register before our next conference day on October 21st, and have access to all the conference materials and to videos of the sessions you missed. Head over to our Registration site.
Listen to Rick, Tamar, and Doug discuss Virtual Fox Fest 2020 with Andrew MacNeill on The FoxShow.
Virtual Fox Fest starts Thursday, October 15. If you haven’t registered, there’s still time: http://geekgatherings.com/registration. Want to know who else is attending? See https://virtualfoxfest.com/whoscoming.aspx.
Our thanks to all those who responded to our plea not to wait for the last minute. Here’s a reminder in case you got busy and forgot…
Virtual Fox Fest starts next week and is held October 15, 21, and 27, 2020! Get registered today!
Geekwear too
Order your Virtual Fox Fest gear from https://geekgatherings.logosoftwear.com/. Choose from the options shown or create your own unique Virtual Fox Fest-wear.
To choose your favorite color instead of ours, click the item you want and on that item’s page, click Customize This Product. On the page that opens, click Product & Color and choose the color you want.
To create custom items, click any item. On the page that appears, click Customize This Product. On the page that appears, click Product & Color and then click Change Product. You can select from all items offered by Logo Sportswear. If you want the VFF logo printed, be sure to start with one of the t-shirts. If you want the logo embroidered, start with anything other than one of the t-shirts.
Once your VFF gear arrives, post your pictures on social media with the hashtag #VirtualFoxFest, so we can see them.
Thanks to all who have already registered for Virtual Fox Fest; we appreciate your support and our speakers are excited to share all their sessions with you all soon.
That said, we know there are procrastinators who have not registered and have good intentions to do so before the conference starts. Please, please, please do so sooner than later. Our hard working registration staff of one is also a presenter who is practicing and refining his session, and an organizer, and has more than a full-time job working on customer projects. If you all wait until the week of the conference to register, let’s just say you might not get the credentials in time to see the first session on October 15th. It literally takes minutes to register.
We don’t want you to miss all the details about the conference we are sharing over the next couple of weeks. We want you to have a chance to read white papers and download the examples once we release them before the conference starts. We’d hate to see you miss the opportunity to get a head start on all the goodies. Go get registered! Now, really, don’t waste another minute. Here is the link: register me now
Virtual Fox Fest is October 15, 21, and 27, 2020!
We’re pleased to announce Geekwear by Geek Gatherings. Order your Virtual Fox Fest gear from https://geekgatherings.logosoftwear.com/. Choose from the options shown or create your own unique VFFwear.
To choose your favorite color instead of ours, click the item you want and on that item’s page, click Customize This Product. On the page that opens, click Product & Color and choose the color you want.
To create custom items, click any item. On the page that appears, click Customize This Product. On the page that appears, click Product & Color and then click Change Product. You can select from all items offered by Logo Sportswear. If you want the VFF logo printed, be sure to start with one of the t-shirts. If you want the logo embroidered, start with anything other than one of the t-shirts.
Once your VFF gear arrives, post your pictures on social media with the hashtag #VirtualFoxFest, so we can see them.
Ch-ch-changes:
Unfortunately, because of family matters, Cathy Pountney had to withdraw from presenting this year. We are hopeful that she will present her session “Customizing Your Vertical Market Application” at Southwest Fox in 2021!
Fortunately, we also have good news: John Ryan offered to present “Visual FoxPro Advanced and VFP C++ Compiler: a New Lease of Life for VFP”, which we naturally took him up on.
You should see the schedule posted sometime during September.
Virtual Fox Fest is October 15, 21, and 27, 2020! Don’t forget to register today!