What a wonderful synopsis of the conference David! Kudos to all the presenters, the MC's, RBTI's staff and the participants. It was great renewing and making new contacts.
However, like Fox News, we need balanced and fair reporting, so naturally the feminine side needs to be told.... We had a lot more women attending (hooray!). I'm not sure of the exact number but ladies, we made a very strong showing at this conference (maybe John Minyo can give us the stats). If we set our minds to it and Sami, Nicole, Karen, Barsa (pardon me if I forget anyone)-- we missed all of you-- attend next October (22-25), that would go a long way in adding a little flair to the 2004 Rbase Developers' Conference (Part II).... No offense guys, but some applications are still rather monochromatic... Time for some decorator touches, I think <g>. David could not likely comment on his own presentations so let me do that. They were wonderful! The "Principles of Database Design" was so good that I had a eureka moment about my pesky Oracle database--alone worth the price of admission. The power of the Select statement "SQL Tips and Tricks" continues to amaze me and I want to order David's and Bill's book "Advanced SQL Queries" although the single SQL query for calculating a golfer's average is not my main motivation... His "All-Purpose Search Form" is also going in my bag of tricks. As usual, the quality of the presentations and the free code availability for each of them makes this the most cost-effective 3 days of the year! What eye-openers coming through our ears... (yeah, that's possible!). For instance, Alexei Nicolini's access to terminal server on WIN2003 was a remote connectivity example but when we talked about the Rbase and networks mix, it also surfaced as a very fast way to connect internal workstations and to speed up Rbase 7.x without an internal network! Talk about breaking barriers! I can't wait to try it. The camaraderie and everyone's hospitality were very appreciated. I loved Rafee's quartet's presentation and the SWORBUGS (I laughed so hard, I cried). The CD is for sale--$10 I think??? And you can get both the "Franklin Regional Harmonizers" featuring Rafee Memon, Ryan Koter, Chris Jenko and Garrett Boyd singing their wonderful 50's repertoire AND the SWORBUGS "The best of" on a VHS copy of Donna's video tape for a $20 donation to Project Bundle Up (it's never too late to do good!). I learned a lot and had a great time. Aleksey, the first think I did this morning was to enable Merlin and make him speak French... I'm going to develop a fun Rbase application for my grandkids and introduce them to Geocaching (thanks Ben!)... Razzak, your family, the RBTI dream team, the Rbase community, you're the best!!! Claudine :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David M. Blocker Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:29 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: 2004 R:BASE Developers' Conference Day-to-Day Schedule 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Javier Valencia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:46 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: 2004 R:BASE Developers' Conference Day-to-Day Schedule > Me too, me too... > Javier, > > Javier Valencia, PE > President > Valencia Technology Group, L.L.C. > 14315 S. 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Sorry I couldn't make it. > > Troy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Minyo > II > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 2:58 PM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - 2004 R:BASE Developers' Conference Day-to-Day Schedule > > > 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, > > John Minyo II > R:BASE Technologies, Inc. > Customer Service > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.rbase.com > (724) 733-0053 > >
