There is no reason in the world why I have to provide you with the list of conferences I attended.

You do not have to provide me with anything. However, you did make a statement that you would "boycott any conference at which Andy was a speaker". I was just trying to determine how meaningful that statement was. If, as I suspect, you have never been to a VFP conference, then this statement is pretty meaningless. It amounts to the same thing as giving up chocolate for Lent, but you happen to be allergic to chocolate and can't eat it anyway.

It is not about me, it is about Andy and what he did.

Actually, this thread is about "How to select fields without hard-coding". I tried to provide you with some good technical information that might be useful to you. Instead of keeping this thread focused on technical content, you decided to make this all about Andy and your feelings about him.

Since you obviously do not want to look at a solution that may be helpful to you, I will end my participation in this thread now.