An interview with Tamar Granor, Doug Hennig and Rick Schummer regarding Southwest Fox 2009, coming up in October in Mesa, Arizona. Discussions range from choice of sessions, VFPX, new speakers and sponsors and the state of FoxPro development. Enjoy!

When speaking about VFPx at last year's Southwest Fox conference, it became evident that there aren't a lot of avenues for finding out how to use various pieces of VFPx. So I'm creating videos designed to showcase VFPx components, starting with the Control Renamer.

If you have ever wanted to rename a control in a class or form but were hesitant because of missing other code references, the Control Renamer is definitely a tool you want to try.

Now, there are lots of areas where new options can be added into this tool - but they are primarily "extras" like setting color settings or some logging.

Check it out below!

FoxPro VFP

Welcome to the first show of 2009

. On today's show:

1. Discussion about Rod Paddock's What's In a Title post.
2. Designing Databases with Andy Kramek.
3. What's new at VFPX.
4. Interview with John Koziol

FoxShow #60 features an interview with Ken Levy recorded on the second day of Southwest Fox 2008.

We talked about a number of things including what he's been doing since he left Microsoft, the new CodeCast podcast that he is doing with EPS, APPScanX - a new VFP tool for helping to scan projects and code for specific elements and what he feels his contribution has been to the FoxPro community.

Enjoy!

From Southwest Fox 2008 in Mesa Arizona, here is the audio from my Profiling and Refactoring session. In it, we discuss what refactoring is and what it isn't and how the VFPX Code Analyst helps make refactoring easier in Visual FoxPro. We also discuss how to best use the Log file generated from the VFP Coverage Profiler.

Here's another "discussion" from Southwest Fox, all about how developers get the most out of their day and, er, shower. Discussion with Cathy Pountney, Mike Yeager, Alan Stevens, Art Bertquist, Andrew MacNeill and others. Enjoy.

I didn't want to do a full show on this little interview but wanted to put it into the stream because I think it's really valuable for developers to hear. It's a discussion Alan Stevens and I had one morning at Southwest Fox 2008. It was held after his talk on Agile and I had some specific questions we wanted to get into. There is some background noise as we were talking outside at the breakfast table. If you've never heard Alan speak, this is a great way of getting a feel for his sessions. Enjoy!

At SWFox, there are a number of great sessions going on, most of which have the "please do not record or tape" - however, some, like this one, were open for all and everyone was told "you are on the Internet".

This show is the entirety of the VFPX Meeting session - a session hosted by Craig Boyd, Bo Durban, Rick Schummer and myself about how the community can get better involved with VFPX itself and some other suggestions at the type of things the community wants to see.

Audio is a conference room is tough - but I've tried to increase it where needed so you can hear the people in the back row.

Highlights from today's episode:

saraford: codeplex now has ratings and reviews

Year's 10 Best Application UIs (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

VFP Bootcamp - Interview with Art Bergquist
Microsoft Visual FoxPro fails to import Microsoft Excel 2007 Workbook saved in "Excel 97-2003 Workbook" format

VFP 9.0 Versions | The Bereznikers

3 Places To Keep Your Pocket Code (Besides Your Pocket)

Foundations of Programming Ebook

Sleep tight, don't let the test bugs bite
Code comments, b-aaaad - Nancy Folsom
There are no single developer projects : Steve Smith's Blog

This episode features an interview with Tamar Granor, Doug Hennig and Rick Schummer about their plans for Southwest Fox, the FoxPro developer conference coming up in October, 2008 in Mesa Arizona.

Hear about the great prizes, sessions and what went into the planning of this year's conference. As discussed in the interview, here is a link to Tamar's blog post about how she builds the schedule.

Also, I mentioned Jing - a handy (and free!) little tool from Techsmith for screen captures and screen casting (in Flash!).

Enjoy!