Just some brief comments upon return from the conference.

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Thanks to all of Lantica staff for the Users Conference, and all the great new features in the next version.

Thanks for listening to us.  I saw many new tools and features that I had requested long ago, but they were not forgotten, and I was pleased to see their future availablity. 

Many other users were saying the same thing, older requests for changes and new tools have been responded to.  And efforts have also been made to maintain backwards compatibility so we can continue to work with the current version while waiting for Version 2 to be available.

As far as I am aware there will be no video available.


To all the people that did attend, post up what your favorite class was, what your favorite 2.0 item is, your highest number in the demo application that you saw on Saturday morning, and anything else that you want to share with others on this board.


One thing that Bill and I forgot to mention Saturday morning is if you have any problems or find any bugs in the demo app send an e-mail to support@lantica.com

-Ray

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Current alternatives are:
1. This Forum
2. The Lantica website Support area
3. Inside Sesame
4. The Training Classes that I am offering

If you are on our Keep Me Posted list, you will be receiving a message regarding demos we are considering offering both in person and online. If you are interested in such a thing, I hope that you will respond to the message.

I have to agree with Bob Hansen the event was great on many levels. We learned a lot, we got to meet other terrific Sesame users and we were sent off inspired by seeing what has been done and what can be done using Sesame.

The event started out Thursday evening with a meet and greet. It was a lot of fun to talk with the Lantica team and other Sesame users and to meet a few of their spouses.

On Saturday the event started with an introduction from Cliff Sobin. Cliff wears a few hats. He is a user just like many of us. He is not a programmer but has been developing an application that is about to be implemented in his Law practice shortly. He is also part of the Lantica team. Cliff keeps the event on schedule and has the tough job of telling the speakers to wrap it up. Cliff did a great job while keeping a sense of humor the entire time. Thanks Cliff for all your work.

Gordon Meigs was the first presenter and he gave us a terrific education on what can be done with pop-up lists and Combo boxes. He showed us numerous ways to fill them and improve our applications. I was pretty sure I was up to speed on this subject but Gordon proved I always can learn more.

John Mclaughlin followed with an amazing presentation on creating reports. He covered reports with multiple lines, Spaces, calculations and anything else we could dream of. His easy going style lets you learn without knowing your being taught.

After lunch on day 1 we were introduced to Gary Cantell who is the Director of  Management Information Systems (and an awfully nice guy also) for a large facility that is part of the New Jersey Department of human services. Gary worked with Bill Halpern who developed a Sesame application that is presently being used by hundreds of end users at Garys facility.

Bill Halpern took over for Gary and gave us a demo of the application that was absolutely awe inspiring. It was made up of 16 to 20 databases so far and does many amazing things. Bill as always gave us valuable words of wisdom but seeing this application gave us the knowledge that anything can be done with Sesame. Special thanks are in order to Gary, Bill and the State of new Jersey who allowed us to have this application on CD to use to educate ourselves on the techniques that were employed in this application. I have already cut and pasted pieces of this code into my own application, So Thanks Very Much.

The next unfortunate speaker (it had to be difficult to follow Bills great presentation) was Alec Mulvey. Well who ever set this schedule new what they were doing because Alec was up for the task. Alec gave us a presentation of tips that we were able to use immediately. He showed us small tips and techniques that make the tasks of using Sesame just a little easier. To me personally just 1 of the tips he pointed out was worth my entire trip. I will save many frustrating hours thanks to Alec. Between the great information Alec gave and the delicious chocolate he throw at us to make sure we were paying attention the day ended on an extremely high note and I could not wait for the next morning.

Bill Halpern started the day by showing us an application that Ray the Reaper and Ben created. This was not just any application but an arcade game keeping with the Las Vegas Spirit. This application points out beautifully what can be done with sesame. This application allows us to see menu buttons in action. The visibility features of sesame allowing elements to appear and disappear on command. It shows us how we can create moving graphics. It is made up of many different games but has a statistics button that shows how many times each game was played, how many wins, how many losses this shows us how we can integrate the results of all the different databasesd into 1 place. This application is a fun way to see how we can utilize these features in our own real world applications. Ray and Ben I am sure your techniques from this application will find its way into many of our databases for years to come. Thanks for all the effort.


The next speaker was Erika Yoxall. Erika is unreal, between her tasks with Lanticas development team, her tasks with Hammer Data, Her time spent helping anyone who asks on the Sesame forum she also travels around the country teaching Sesame classes.
Today Erika showed us the proper use of variables, talked about scope and showed us many techniques for keeping our code clean and trouble free. I can not even start to explain all the things she showed us but I can tell you that we all would have gladly sat patiently for another few days learning from her if Cliff did not have to keep on schedule and cut her off. (Its just Cliffs job, someone had to do it). To steal a line from my kids Erika you Rock. {As a side note we met her husband Don, I am sure many guys were bummed that she really is married but after speaking with Don at least we know she has a nice guy. Don many of us need to give you big thanks for allowing us to have so much of her time that I am sure you would like to keep for yourself.)

Unfortunately I had to leave early so I missed out on Tom Marcellus. I always love reading  Inside Sesame that Tom edits so I know I missed some really Neat stuff.

I also missed the Demo on Sesame 2.0 so I am hopping someone will fill us in on Toms presentation and the demo.

Overall it was a great conference. I know it took effort from many people some behind the scenes that get none of the glory. We know your there and appreciate your efforts. Ray thanks for all the help, I saw lots of us users getting personalized help this weekend and thanks for the arcade game and all the positives you bring to Sesame. Jay we know you worked all weekend also however seeing you with that beautiful gal of yours we do not feel to bad for you. (Many of us however were wondering what she is doing with you.) Mark (The Cow) you were missed. Many of us this weekend talked about you (Most of it was even nice) and your incredible work. We sure hope to see you at the next conference.

On a personnel note I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed seeing some of the users I have come to call friends over the years and certainly enjoyed meeting new friends and look forward to the next time.  

For me great is an understatement!
It was a pleasure meeting all of you.

All the freebies ROCKED!!!

But not in comparison to all the information I learned while there.

Thank you Lantica!

Another round of kudos for the Lantica Team!

I'm very pleased with what I was able to take away in knowledge from the conference. Everyone should be planning for the next one so they can make it. I'm sure it will be somewhere, sometime.

This product has matured and is really becoming useful.

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Don't thank me, Thank Mark for implementing that feature.

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I meant Highest Score or Highest recorded winnings.

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Next week That might be just a little too soon.

-Ray