A coworker and I drove down to Alpharetta, GA Friday afternoon. We arrived only 20 minutes late for the reception, despite the best attempts of Atlanta traffic to make us later. 
The hotel is comfortable, with large rooms; no complaints. At registration, I met Kevin Cully who organized the event. He reported that he had 55 attendees registered. That was good news to me. For a first time conference on a niche topic such as Visual FoxPro has become, that is a respectable level of interest.
After my first beer... er, I mean after the reception, I attended Bo Durban's session on Creating custom report controls and customizing the report designer. This was an eye-opening session for me. I have not touched a VFP report since VFP 9 was released, so I hadn't seen the COOL new features available from the report listener class.
Bo showed us how to hook into the report rendering to draw directly on the report with GDI+. Next, he showed us how to use GDI+ to completely replace a shape on a form with whatever we want. Bo demoed replacing with Rich Text, and an ActiveX control. I told Bo he got me excited about reporting, which I never expected.
The keynote was given by Craig Boyd. I've read Craig's blog for over a year, and knew to expect an enthusiastic advocate for VFP development. Craig delivered in spades! VFP World Domination was a 75 minute cheerleading session about the power and potential of the Fox. I left the session very fired up about what is possible with this tool.
Craig showed off several of the tools and examples he has created. He is a terrific resource to our community. One of his examples gave me a possible solution to a tool I have been contemplating.
Following Craig's keynote, several of us went to Taco Macs for "refreshments". I am thrilled about this conference, and very honored to be allowed to speak on Sunday morning.
++Alan