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March 27, 2005
REALWorld
Bill asked what talks I attended. Here’s what I remember:
- Getting the Most from REALBasic 2005
- Understanding Text Encoding
- Demystifying Declares
- Mac OS X User Interface Design
- Powerful yet Underutilized Features
- Debugging Techniques
- Getting the Most out of RBScript
- Managing a Common Framework
- Developing Web Apps with Swordfish
Of these, I think I got the most out of the text encoding and the declares sessions. Text encoding is something interesting to me (somehow) and declares are how we call into C libraries from RB—something I always wanted to know more about. Now I think I have a handle on both (we’ll see). Of the other sessions, there were lots of interesting tidbits but not huge shots of concentrated knowledge. We appear to be in a league of about 3 or 4 other companies that exclusively use RB, so we have an edge over most of the rest of the community (apparently). The Swordfish and 2005 sessions were cool, just seeing what we’re going to be able to use in the not-too-distant future. The Mac OS X UI guy pissed me off because he had too much material and seemed to have no idea what his audience was.
I was also surprised at how anti-Open Source the whole group was. It was also interesting to me that the average age of RB developers seems to be higher than other developer communities: mid-thirties to forties seems to be average.
All in all, it was pretty cool stuff. I’m socially exhausted from it.
Posted by FusionGyro at March 27, 2005 02:26 PM
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