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As you probably saw in Ernt’s earlier post, we exhibited at ODTUG Kaleidoscope this year. It was our first year at the show, but I don’t think it will be our last. To me the show was more valuable than Oracle Open World which we’ve exhibited at for the past 3 years. It may be that as a vendor, exhibiting at OOW is a necessity, but as a developer, exhibiting at the ODTUG show was much better.

What was most encouraging was being able to demo our products to a wide range of people who understood what we were talking about and what our products are trying to achieve. I believe that anyone who believes in code generation as a viable “enhancement’ to custom development should take a look at Rev and see what it can do. I was encouraged to speak to one person who said that he believed we are getting to the point where everything can be done by code generation. I certainly believe that any software project that persists data to a database can benefit from code generation.

Enough about Rev. We had the chance to demo Evo to a number of folks who had some great insight and advice. To me, that was what made the conference such a success. The ability to be able to network with such a great community of people who really want to see a product that can do things right was encouraging.

I had long wanted to speak with Wilfred van der Deijl about his solution to the ADF/Forms integration problem and get his impression on Forms to ADF conversions. At this conference I had the chance to do that. Even though I missed his presentation (the time had changed and I didn’t check the board), he was kind enough to stop by the booth and show it to us personally. It’s a great solution for a problem that we have been asked about many times. If you are into Forms or ADF developement, you should definitely check out his blog. It was nice to see from his blog that he believes we are on the right path.

Peter Ebell over at AMIS in the Netherlands stopped by. If you are into hardcore ADF development, checkout the AMIS blog where Peter is a contributor. Anyway, he stopped by to get a demo of our Forms conversions and hopefully will post his thoughts about it. We talked a lot about Forms Conversions, JHeadstart, and even Whirlyball.

I, unfortunately, did not have the time to attend any of the sessions I wanted to. In each case, when the time for one of those sessions rolled around I was engaged in a product demo or an interesting discussion with one of the attendees. I suppose it’s better to network at these things than sit in on sessions all day, but a nice mix would have been appreciated.

It was a great show and we all had a good time. Though I am not a NASCAR fan in particular, I did get to Daytona USA as guest of Oracle’s at the ODTUG party they held there, and though I was less than impressed, when I stopped by the following day as we were leaving Daytona and got a chance to check out the grandstands with some cars on the track, it was very cool. I don’t think I’ll be watching any NASCAR races on the tube at home, but if I get the chance to attend a race in person, I think I’ll take it. Just the sound of those engines as the cars go screaming by is quite impressive. Not quite as impressive as Evo or Rev, but impressive nonetheless

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