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This last week has been one of the most exciting weeks of my life.From Sunday to Wednesday night I was running around frantically making sure OzFox was on track, coordinating all the last minute details (of which there were many) and crises (of which there were thankfully very few). From Monday morning I was on a high, and it never relented. Introducing the speakers was a great privilege, and the...

I’m really excited about OzFox now – only 4 days to go. We’ve had a bunch of last minute registrations – especially after announcing our single day registration option – which has perked me up. Rachael has helped me these past few days get all the final admin tasks under control – she is fantastic. Everything is set to go, I start picking up the speakers on...

Well, there’s only two weeks to go now until OzFox and I’m finalising the last bits of admin before the fun begins. I’m a bit up and down at the moment. On the upside it is going to be a great conference, and having 3 days with these world renowned speakers is going to be a blast. I’ve finished the conference bag and goodies which was fun. On the downside I’m...

I was trying to find where Devcon 2005 was being advertised. Here it is. Note, it looks to me like someone has hurredly put up all the Advisor events, as there are no specific details yet. But if the page is correct we’ll have Visual FoxPro, .Net, SharePoint and SQL events all on at the same time. (The only thing missing as far as we are concerned is BizTalk, but perhaps that will come in...

Apparently the plan is for Devcon to be at the JW Marriot in Las Vegas again next year. Fantastic I say. I loved it there. I thought Las Vegas was unbelievable. But, after reading a few blogs on it, I can only get more excited. It seems that this venue wasn’t up to the usual Devcon standard. As it was my first Devcon this year I have nothing to compare it to. I wish I’d been to some...

Ever wondered why you can’t find a bloody thing at Target? Good luck trying to find stationery at Target Westfield Chatswood. Doesn’t it seem strange that you can’t look down any aisles for stuff, as they are always curved around, hiding stuff from view. Well now we have the answer. The store layout is in the shape of a target. Geddit? A target. Yep, some dickhead with way too...

So here’s a funny thing. I updated the OzFox home and sponsors pages with some sponsor’s images. Works fine on our Windows 2003 server. Works fine on my wife’s notebook. Doesn’t display the images on my notebook. I tried everything to find out why, including differnet browsers, Norton Internet Security settings, even changing the HTML coding from tables to paragraphs. To...

A while back I mentioned my new Scotch drinking hobby. My latest purchases are The Macallan (only a 12 year old but very smooth – my favourite so far) and The Glenlivet (finished in French Oak). I reckon The Macallan has to be one of the nicest scotches I’ve tasted (but lets be clear, I haven’t tasted that many). Very smooth and clean. Avoid this if you go for the more peaty...

The OzFox site has been updated with X-Box room details, 4 for 5 registration deal
The Sydney VFP User Group site has details of the upcoming October meeting and a new jobs page

We are big fans of COM+ here, and use it a lot for projects that have desktop and web components. You probably don’t need convincing of its merits, so I’ll hold off on that.We are also big fans of Terminal Services. Many of our clients are going for the Terminal Server option as it allows them to log in from home etc. OK, you don’t need convincing of its merits either. Sometimes...