I’ve just returned from the Devcon opening keynote, and what a great keynote it was. 2.5 hours jam packed with demos, features and anecdotes.
Afterwards I met Lisa Slater Nicholls and Colin Nicholls, then David Stevenson, Ken Levy, Doug Hennig and to finish the night, The Man himself: Rick Strahl. Oh man, so many VFP heroes in one place. How will I sleep?
A big thank you to Andrew Coates for coordinating the user group webcast and to Paul, Craig and Castro for presenting. Details of how the event went are here:
See also the UG site at www.svfpug.com.au for next month’s details.
I’ve just stated playing with Sauce Reader – a very nice blog reader, and free for personal use.
I’m off to Devcon on Monday. Unreal, I get to meet my VFP heroes in person.
CoDe Focus magazine is devoted to VFP9 this issue – download the PDF here
CoDe magazine is here
Sydney VFP User Group is on next Wednesday – a big combined meeting with the Melbourne VFP User Group – details are here
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VFP 9 Reporting articles announced by Ken Levy here that are available:
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