| Title: | They ain't no RoundUp |
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| Category: | RoundUp |
| Posted by: | Ben Allums |
| Next: | Doodle Metrics |
I've been to many conferences over the years as both a vendor and an attendee. Some were good, some were bad, and, yes, some were just plain ugly. But what happened in Austin earlier this week was different.
How exactly was RoundUp different?
I can't quite say.
Except...
Those other conferences?
They ain't no RoundUp.
RoundUp didn't peak and flame out. It had a slow burn to it. Like the Poblano peppers at Hula Hut, it stayed with you and got better over time. Everyone was relaxed, enjoying the give and take of conversation and life here in Austin. It felt like a family reunion.
Customers were excited to personally meet members of our Support team like Adam and Osman. Developers like Jesse were going off into corners with customers to "fix my last documentation bug". People joked and talked as if they have been friends their whole lives.
As a company, WebWorks is committed to hosting the RoundUp Conference every year. That's good. I just hope we can figure out how to recreate the atmosphere that existed this year. I hope that we can capture all the great things about RoundUp 2007 and, just like they do over at Stubb's BBQ, "put that in a bottle".
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In case you're wondering who I am, my name is Ben Allums. These days, I'm Director of Engineering here at Quadralay/WebWorks.com. I started working at Quadralay back in 1994. Back then, our main product was a C++ development environment, UDT. We needed help for it, so Tony McDow wrote a quick MIF to HTML translation tool. When we showed it to the customer, they weren't too interested in buying UDT, but that MIF tool, they thought that was pretty cool. From that point, I was involved in the planning and architecture of a number of Quadralay Products:
- Publisher 2.0 - 3.5
- Publisher 6.0 - 8.0 (I was at IBM/Tivoli for a while)
- WebWorks Help 2.0 - 5.0
- An edit/review product with the initials FD which shall otherwise remain nameless
- ePublisher 9.0 - 9.3
So if you've got a question regarding current WebWorks products or if you're jonesing for a vintage copy of UDT on Solaris, send me an email at allums@webworks.com.
How exactly was RoundUp different?
I can't quite say.
Except...
Those other conferences?
They ain't no RoundUp.
RoundUp didn't peak and flame out. It had a slow burn to it. Like the Poblano peppers at Hula Hut, it stayed with you and got better over time. Everyone was relaxed, enjoying the give and take of conversation and life here in Austin. It felt like a family reunion.
Customers were excited to personally meet members of our Support team like Adam and Osman. Developers like Jesse were going off into corners with customers to "fix my last documentation bug". People joked and talked as if they have been friends their whole lives.
As a company, WebWorks is committed to hosting the RoundUp Conference every year. That's good. I just hope we can figure out how to recreate the atmosphere that existed this year. I hope that we can capture all the great things about RoundUp 2007 and, just like they do over at Stubb's BBQ, "put that in a bottle".
<hr>
In case you're wondering who I am, my name is Ben Allums. These days, I'm Director of Engineering here at Quadralay/WebWorks.com. I started working at Quadralay back in 1994. Back then, our main product was a C++ development environment, UDT. We needed help for it, so Tony McDow wrote a quick MIF to HTML translation tool. When we showed it to the customer, they weren't too interested in buying UDT, but that MIF tool, they thought that was pretty cool. From that point, I was involved in the planning and architecture of a number of Quadralay Products:
- Publisher 2.0 - 3.5
- Publisher 6.0 - 8.0 (I was at IBM/Tivoli for a while)
- WebWorks Help 2.0 - 5.0
- An edit/review product with the initials FD which shall otherwise remain nameless
- ePublisher 9.0 - 9.3
So if you've got a question regarding current WebWorks products or if you're jonesing for a vintage copy of UDT on Solaris, send me an email at allums@webworks.com.
@ November 8, 2007 3:31:24 PM CST ( 0 comment(s) ) |
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