No sweat, Rick. It apparently turned out to be a bad night for most of the regulars--I might not have made it myself if it hadn't been for the fact that I was responsible for presenting. As it happened the three of us who made it dispensed with the formal presentation and just had a rollicking good discussion on topics such as: * The relative merits of Java and .NET (discussed among guys who use both and don't have a 'religious' affiliation to either) * The future of the Win32 API * How the Palm/WinMobile/Symbian showdown will shake out in the coming years * The joys and perils of independent consulting * The somewhat counterintuitive evolution of the mobile software market from a zillion different classes of applications to just a few and what that means * The strong demand for ruggedized devices (and how this has been a boon to the Windows Mobile platform) * Why dirt bikes are good and ATVs are evil I'd like to say you didn't miss much, but I'd be lying if I did. All present agreed that we had *very* important things to say. ;-) We'll do SyncML another time. Maybe April if there isn't a demand for something else. Paul Herin made noises about doing a presentation on how to do crypto when you don't know if your mobile is going to be talking to a .NET server, a J2EE server, or your aunt Lucille's toaster oven, so I'm inclined to lean on him for that! :-) David On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:23:46 -0700, Rick Sands wrote: > First, welcome to David Wathen ... > > Second, I am sorry I missed last night's meeting - especially after saying > I'd be there... Stuff came up (Girl Scouts) and I was hi-jacked into it... > > -Rick > > > -----Original Message----- > From: comodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:comodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of David Beers > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:56 AM > To: comodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [CoMoDev] Welcome to David Wathen > > Folks, please welcome David Wathen to the CoMoDev list. David is a software > developer in a Boulder-based startup called LockSolid. He's interested in > learning more about mobile development issues in preparation for some > development his company is planning on doing in the future. > > Welcome aboard, David! > > ========================= > David Beers, Moderator > Colorado Mobile Developers > www.comodev.com