[CoMoDev] Re: Welcome to David Wathen
- From: "Rick Sands" <Rick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <comodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:37:04 -0700
Wow... Sounds like you had a *great* meeting. Personally, I'd rather have
the informal discussions like that MOST of the time with formal
presentations deriving from them only as needed.
-Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: comodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:comodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of David Beers
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 1:26 PM
To: Rick Sands
Subject: [CoMoDev] Re: Welcome to David Wathen
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
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