Kevin Cully announced yesterday that there won’t be a FoxForward 2008, and that he doesn’t have plans for another one: it takes way too much time away from his business and family.

Kevin Cully posted his pictures from FoxForward 2007.

Here’s me perusing the beer list at Taco Mac on Saturday: there are 108 beers on the front cover, and that’s just the ones on draught…

If anyone has a picture of me presenting, destroy itcan you send me a copy, please?

Other blogging attendees of FoxForward 2007 include:

• Stephen Bodnar
• Dave Crozier (who kept giving me welcome invitations that were nevertheless at bad times…)
• Tod McKenna
• Kevin Ragsdale
• Dave Bernard
• Dave Stevenson

(Just updated with Steve’s blog — further updates will be silent. It definitely helps find blogs when I spell the conference correctly….)

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(Gorramit, why’d I turn scripts on in the middle of a long blog post?????)

I’m currently sitting in the Concord Trailways Portland waiting room. My journey back to Brewer went rather more smoothly than the trip to Alpharetta, as I didn’t walk in the wrong direction trying to get somewhere I hadn’t been before. :-)

My talk this morning went more smoothly than last night: I got through everything I wanted to demo this time, where yesterday I got frazzled in the middle, and couldn’t see how the demo fit into the notes where I had it — and I was rather dubious about the slides I was on at that point, too. (And thank you, Fox, for changing the case of the filename I was working with: that’s always a joy when working with a case-sensitive system.) Unfortunately, I ran out of time at the end, and didn’t get to demonstrate the Fox-specific tools that Cristof and Paul had come up with. My tendency to babble was also much on display, unfortunately, interspersed with bouts of silent concentration on the keyboard. Ah, well, practice makes perfect.

I got some good information out of the conference: Dave Bernard’s explained how instrumenting his VFP applications allowed him to not only fix bugs faster, but also to be more proactive about helping his clients. I think the most-currently-useful talk was Alan Stevens’ “Red, Green, Refactor”, about Unit Testing with FoxUnit. I’ve seen it demonstrated before, but this time it took: I can hardly wait to get back to the office to try it on some of the code I’ve previously written (I know you said it’s more for new code than legacy, Alan, but there’s little enough in these utility classes that a restart won’t hurt).

I was rather perturbed that I had to walk out of Bo Durban’s GDIplus session twice (once to finish packing, and then to head to the bus stop): I was impressed by the graphics capabilities that he had added to our toolboxes, but I was much more impressed by some of the optimizations that he and his cohorts had come up with. Wish I could have seen what he was showing about custom report controls in Sedna… but showing up late for my 13th anniversary might have been unlucky. :-)

Kevin Cully, the conference organizer, was great to work with. He’s been blogging his impressions of the conference and its runup over on Cully.biz. Thanks for making my first outing as a conference presenter so enjoyable, Kevin. :-)

I’ve uploaded my slides for the presentation over here: after I clean up my notes a bit, I’ll include them too.

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I’m down at the FoxForward conference, where I’ll be presenting tomorrow and Sunday about using Subversion with FoxPro. I’d like to give a more-detailed description, but I’m pretty wiped out at the moment — more later. Pictures here for interested parties…

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FoxForward accepted my session proposal to speak on using Subversion with VFP. This is the first time I’ve spoken at a conference — before this, I’ve just done user groups.

Only problem is, it ends the day before my anniversary, and I get the strong impression that I had darned well better be home on time. :-)