>Bob Grommes, the FoxTalk editor at the time, was invited and couldn't go because his brother was getting married at the same time. He asked if I was interested in going in his place, not violating his Alpha non-disclosure other than to suggest I should be very interested. I can take a hint.

I never met Bob in person, but I remember his books on FP2x well enough.
They were miles ahead of most, if not all, other FP books sold back then -
so good that I bought the DOS and Win version knowing that most of the stuff was *very* similar.
Based my very own fwk on that book: it was a thing of personal pride necessary to create your
very own fwk back then even if there were some pre-made already offered in exchange for peanuts,
if you valued your own time programming at all. I compromized: getting much pre-written and tested code
(he put more effort into NOT repeating code as well, a DRY believer before the concept was acronymed)
as part of the book floppy and having still enough special ideas and changes in my basic fwk
to call it my own with a clear conscience ;-)

Then the first vfp book to my liking - not dozens of screen shots and rehashing of power tools,
but a first step into OOP thinking and patterns - was the early vfp3 book he co-authored with Andy Kramek.
Comparatively tiny if you measured by the thickness on the shelf, but big on ideas you could expand on.

I read sometimes ago that he went into Dotnet, but have no idea what direction and what he is doing now -
any pointers ?

regards

thomas