Many of you know that for the past few years I fly myself off to Prague for the annual VFP Devcon in the Czech republic. The reasons I choose Prague over Germany, the US Advisor Devcon, or the local Devcons (southwest for example) to be honest is Prague itself.
Sure the pricing for me to fly to Europe and pay 100 EU for the conference - as compared to the US Advisor devcon at 1300 USD. it makes financial sense. It ends up costing less to go to Prague than attend a devcon in Las Vegas. ! But the real reason I attend Prague is the city itself.
Onto the Devcon itself,
The big announcement came in the statement made by Ken Levy (and yes we doubled czech'd his wording that Sedna is the the next VFP.... We thought me mis understood him for a moment but trapped him the corridor later.. to confirm.. Did he mean to say that.. ? What about what Craig Bernsten posted on his blog Ken knew of the blog, and pointed out that it had been updated, and Craigs opinion had changed.
Ken did say that nothing was firm as far as a number like VFP 10.. But that we as developers should not be so concerned about the name of the product, but more of what the product will enable us to do in the future.
So no commitment on a VFP 10 but the good news was .. There is 2 more years on a the continued development of the product whatever the name of it it will end up being. (Senda, is or might be a working title of the product)
Being the product is two years out, nothing firm is set for the what it will and wont do, All that was really mentioned was that MS will be getting Beta's more frequently than they had done in the past.
This year attending from Microsoft was
Randy Brown
Richard Stanton -who wrote much of the the new VFP9 report writer..
and of course
Ken Levy
Here are some pictures of the conference and the aread
Grig Dolphin
Andy Davis
One end of the Charles Bridge
Grig -Andy Dave and Allen
How to drink Coffee
How to prepare dinner
The Gang
Dave -Grig Allen and Peter Hart
The Gang again
Bob Lee Dave Allen and Andy
The Clock at Night
Just in case you guys from the US get homesick
Oh Forget it.. its prague, Enjoy it for all its worth.
posted by Bob Lee @ 6:09 AM
1 Comments:
Ken was mistaken. My opinion has not changed. That doesn't mean I will stop using VFP...it means that I will spend more time learning .Net.
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