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REAL World Conference 2004
An experience to remember
Issue: 2.5 (May/June 2004)
Author: Marc Zeedar
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This March nearly a hundred and fifty eager REALbasic programmers invaded Austin, Texas for the first REAL World Conference. Introductions between people generally went something like this:
Tom: Hi, I'm Tom Rex.
Roy: (with blank look) I'm Roy Bill.
Tom: (with blank look) Do I know you?
Roy: I'm Square Cactus Software. You?
Tom: (still with blank look) I run Dinosaurware. What program did you write?
Roy: My main product is Sleazy Tax Advisor 3.2.
Tom: (astonished) Oh! I know you! I love that program. I use it all the time. Well, every April 14th when I'm working on my taxes. Its advice has saved me a bundle.
Roy: (pleased) Cool! What have you written?
Tom: It's a kids game. Dinosplat.
Roy: Sorry, I haven't heard of it.
Tom: Here's my card.
Roy: (staring at email address) Wait a sec! I know that email. Didn't we have a discussion on the NUG last month about b-tree algorithms?
Tom: You're roy256? Wow, your refactoring techniques were incredible!
(The two wander off, deeply engaged in a conversation only ten people out of a million would understand.)
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