And further to that, a big, big shout-out to Doug, Rick & Tamar, and
all
the speakers for making this happen. The amount of work that goes into
pulling off something like this is a labor of love, and Geek Gatherings
deserves all the love they get in return.
Here are a few of my highlights:
In a session on internationalization, Cathy Poutney announced that
Steven
Black's INTL Toolkit is now open source. If you need a framework that
handles translations for different languages or even industries,
head over
to Github and download it.
The aforementioned Cathy Poutney did a session on, what else, extending
the reporting engine with a framework she's calling fxReports. This
is (or
will be soon) available as an open source project in VFPx.
Eric Selje did a very interesting session called "VFP Advanced: Is this
the next version of Visual Foxpro?". Basically a rocket scientist lone
developer in China has reverse engineered VFP, and patched at least
96 bugs
(to date) in our favorite tool and its runtimes. All you need to try
this
out is a licensed copy of VFP9 SP2, hotfix3, and you can install
this side
by side. He has also released a 64 bit version. There are pros and
cons to
using the 64 git version. For example, he has not breached the 2GB file
size limitation. OTOH it uses newer supported versions of the
C++runtime
(10.1, I believe) instead of the apparently out of support 7.1
library that
VFP is written in.
--
rk
-----Original Message-----
From: ProfoxTech <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Richard
Kaye
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:44 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: SWFox 2019 recap
I was not a presenter, like Tracy <vbg>, but I also had a great time at
SWFox. It's a joy to spend time with one's peers learning new (and
sometimes old) things, as well as meeting in person with both old
and new
friends. I would also encourage anyone on this list who still works
with
the Fox to consider attending next year's conference, which is
scheduled
for November 12-15, 2020.
--
rk
-----Original Message-----
From: ProfoxTech <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tracy
Pearson
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:38 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: SWFox 2019 recap
I am back to calm after the first day back to work.
I had a great time at the conference and hope to stay connected with
those
I met.
I answered an email this morning and thought about the conversation
I had
with Richard Kaye. <grin>
Good conversations, good information, and a fun time.
I hear I did well as my first time speaking at the conference.
Maybe we can get more ProFoxers to go in 2020.
See you around!
Tracy
