Well, I returned from Las Vegas. I arrived around 2:30 AM. I lost 100 bucks playing Texas Hold ‘Em. I played well. I was up from the minimum $100 buy in. I had a pair of Aces in the hole. I was raised to the point of being raised all in. I was loving it. Then the guy that pushed me all in had a pocket pair of 8s, and an 8 hit on the flop, but no Aces hit. Oh Well. I do not have enough disposable income to risk playing more to try and win my money back.
The conference was not as good as I was hoping. The technical session on JavaScript was using JavaScript inside of templates to do some logic based on data in record file. We build complex templates with nothing but variables, and have a program that writes inputs with all the custom data we want. That was two sessions waisted.
The data-cleansing session was about maintaining a mailing database. Oops. We have a mailing database that is well maintained. Finally, the web services session was focusing their web services, not how was can build our own web services that can use their server composition engine for web previews.
Overall, the technical sessions were geared toward people that were using their services. I was under the impression that a lot of the attendees did not have programmers. They were small businesses that were carving our a niche using Printable’s software and services.
But it was a fun experience, and I would love to go back with a larger “stash” so I could play more poker.
