My goodness where do I begin!

First of all, congratulations to Razzak for AGAIN - why should I be
surprised by now - hosting a fabulous conference!  We learned, we had fun,
we ate well.  We were blown away by the possibilities of R:PHP - which will
be renamed by the way, because it offers much MORE than that!  Blown away by
R:Compiler!  Learned stuff about R:Docs I didn't know was there.

Thanks to Rafi for his great introduction to R:PHP and then for lending his
voice - SWORBUGS - fabulous as they were and are - were put to shame by
Rafi's quartet at the banquet.

Thanks to Donna for her warmth and friendliness and humor - and for being a
great GoFer

Congratulations to Bill Downall and Steve Sweeney for great organizing and
facilitating and Dave Shelley for the slick web site helping us get our
presentations in.  (which he created by the way with the tool he gave us on
the conference CD!)

Highlights:

Great Hors D'ouevres on Friday and a great welcoming speech from Razzak

Dennis Fleming's amazing example of "Hot spots on Forms" - this isn't on the
conference CD but he showed an application based on Razzak's US Map example
from the RRBYW8 showing a diagram of the client's plant, and then showing a
little red ant icon in any area where there were a lot of pending equipment
problems not yet resolved.

Bill Downall's wonderful demo of how to get TWO reports on one page  - even
IF 7.5 will render that moot!

Razzak's demo of what's coming up with 7.5!

Bernie Lis' example of slick looking 7.0 conversions. Bernie is convincing
LOTS of clients to convert!

Bill Downall's demo of animated GIF's in a PAUSE or DIALOG!!!  Wow!!

David Shelley's powerful example - and gift to us - of rapid R:Tango
development toos!

A TRUE sock - knocker - offer demo of R:PHP - to see what this will do, go
to CodeCharge.COM.....

Dale Thomas and Glenn Sippola's GREAT and convincing demo of what PHP,
Oterro and R:Base can do together.

Aleksey quietly and quickly sent us all flying out the door TWICE with his
new plugins R_Registry.RBL and Agent.RBL - the latter bringing Merlin live
and in color SPEAKING and MOVING in your applications!

And a HUGE thank you and greeting to Mike Byerly
Yushuke Nishimura and Shinya Ito's preview of R:Linux was a great tease -
we'll knock a LOT of socks off when this is available on the market!

Same with Wayne's preview of R:Base Turbo V-8 - we all witnessed with our
own eyes a database growing over 2 gigabytes!!

Yes! It's true!  Mike Byerly made it to his first conference and then
proceeded, after claiming he only needed 5 minutes, to leave us gasping with
the hidden possibilities of  list boxes and forms - and wait til you see the
new property goodies in the latest release of 7.1 that are there thanks to
him!

Just when we thought it couldn't get better, Alexei Nicolini showed us LIVE
what amazing things you can do using R:Base - XP Terminal Server - Pocket PC
and scanners - all WIRELESS - with amazing speed.  I'm still out of
breath....

Bill Eyring gave a GREAT demo of how R:Base successfuly invaded the Evil
Empire and gave Nassau County data from an SQL Server database that they
couldn't get when it was in SQL!  THen on Monday, lo and behold Steve
Sweeney shows us the same thing and proved R:Base versatility with a real
example of him saving HP 2 MILLION dollars by mining their data and quickly
getting them powerful summaries of data they couldn't connect on their own
corporate databases!

Then Dennis came back and demo'd a very clever and powerful search form that
I think we're all going to find VERY usefull.......

Up comes Mr. John Minyo - (congratulations on your engagement, John -
Stephanie was a great hostess on Friday and we all were delighted to meet
her) - and shows an RBTI live office application for taking and sharing
phone messages across the office!

The Banquet!  The Banquet!! The Banquet!!!  Great food.  Rafi's great group!
The SWORBUGS totally out embarrassed themselves with a mind blowing review
of ALL their songs and a great new (all available soon on a CD - really!!)

So now it's Monday, many are gone, those left are quietly thinking - how can
you top this.....

And up comes Steve saving 2 million dollars

Steve Vellela with an elegant, simple and 0h my how marketable demo of an
R:Base 7.1 / R:Tango vertical market application for school systems who do
adult community ed programs.  LOVED those simple, easy to read and figure
out screens Steve.   How can we help you market this and spread the good
word about R:Base

And Bill Downall - finally shares the FULL true story of R:Base and the Dart
world complete with true stories, intrigue, politics and photos.

Finally it's over - but no it's not!  Ben Fogt creates the new R:Geo group
and 7 of us go Geo Caching on our way to Razzaks' for a great lunch.

Whew!  Is it October yet so we can all go back?

Thanks to Razzak and everyone who came!
David Blocker
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> Me too, me too...
> Javier,
>
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Troy
Sosamon
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:42 AM
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> I am anxiously awaiting for someone to post a summary of the highlights of
> the conference.  Sorry I couldn't make it.
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> Troy
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>
> Dear R:BASE Developers' Conference Attendees,
>
> The Conference page has been updated with the
> Day-to Day Schedule.
>
> http://www.rbase.com/conference/
>
> Thank you for your patience.
>
> Very Best,
>
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