I first mentioned Blackstone gateways at CFUN, and there has been lots of interest and curiosity ever since. Sean Corfield is already building Blackstone gateways (using the alpha version of the product), and has blogged an overview of how he is using gateways to tie different systems together in a...
I presented Blackstone to the Philadelphia user group last night. Some of the attendees had attended CFUN, so I tried to alter the content slightly. This was a rather quiet (almost subdued) group, one of the attendees suggested that that was typical of Philadelphians, but I don't buy that at all....
Kansas City held the user group attendance lead (for this tour) for a few weeks, but Washington D.C. took the lead this evening with 100 attendees. About 1/3 of those present had attended my CFUN keynote, so I varied the presentation somewhat (different examples, additional content), answered lots...
I just presented Blackstone to CFUN. The only adjective that I think adequately describes the atmosphere in the room is "intense". I was given 40+ minutes to talk and so had to scale back the content and also talk and demo really quickly. The crowd of over 500 loved everything they saw, spontaneous...
I am still planning to take the Blackstone tour to Europe (and probably Asia too), but it won't be the week of July 12th as originally planned. The reasons for the change are: A) Summer attendance will not be as good as we'd like, B) I really need a break from this, I am now in the middle of my 5th...
I am in LAX waiting for a redeye home, having just wrapped week 4 of my user group tour. The San Francisco and Orange Country presentations both went very well, although neither group unseated Kansas City which still holds the attendance record. I'll post pictures when I am on a faster connection....
I spoke to the user group in Sacramento last night (flight delays meant that I was cutting it close, but I did make it, and on time too). Another great presentation, and once again I did not get through all of my content because there were so many questions and comments. Some folks drove 200+ miles...
I presented Blackstone to the user group in Portland, OR, this evening. It's been quite a while since I was last in Portland, I don't remember it being so hot here! I had to make lots of last minute demo changes because I installed a new product build and stuff changed (I like living dangerously)....
Last week I asked for feedback on the necessity for Blackstone reporting to support RTF (a file format primarily used with Microsoft Word). There were over 40 responses to that entry (and some even agreed with each other). To summarize the responses ... Those that want RTF support do so primarily...
Lots of you have been asking for a print output to Excel (this has come up in discussions at user groups, in e-mail threads, and in the comments to my blog entry regarding RTF files). I've been giving this one some thought, and honestly, I don't believe that Excel makes sense as a "print" format. I...