I don't think we're videotaping, but there may be a CD available with some of the materials. Also, I hope to be able to travel some of the seminars for those who couldn't come to us.

Can we tune in for a webcast?

Maybe next year?



Steve

I just wanted to say how nice it was to meet so many other Sesame users. I enjoyed meeting, talking, sharing ideas and learning from them. It was really interesting to see the many different ways that Sesame is being implemented. 

I saw demonstrations that showed me that I could use Sesame many different ways to accomplish my desired tasks.  I the user-developer can choose the level of complexity that is correct for me. I can start using many QA like features with a small amount of effort or I can use the powerful programming language that is built into Sesame to create applications that are made up of my wildest dreams and expectations.

On the final day Sunday (with brain overload from all the incredible knowledge from the previous 2 days) I was wowed once more.

Tom Marcellus (of Inside Sesame) gave us almost 3hrs of advanced printing techniques. Every time you thought you had seen every possible way you can print from Sesame Tom showed us 1 more.

Bill Halpern demonstrated creating an entirely custom menu system with the use of just a few commands. It is interesting to see how Bill gets Sesame to do lots of things quickly with the use of the standard features found in Sesame. His techniques are a perfect example of how powerful applications can be created for the user-developer designing applications for there own use with little to no experience. He chooses to use the minimal amount of advanced program techniques to achieve his goals.

And to finish the day Erika Yoxall taught us how to create advanced reports.  The funny thing is I had the least desire of everything shown this weekend to see this section. I constantly heard (and unfortunately probably echoed) that Reports are the weakest part of Sesame, Talk about being 360 degrees off. As it turns out Reports is super powerful. Erika showed us how we can create reports easily that can have multiple reports on 1 page. She showed us how we can immediately E-mail the report to others and how that same report can be instantly brought into excel for any accounting need (now those strange requests from the accounting department can be handled by the accounting people themselves) Erika showed us how we can add pop-up calendars to our reports for user date selections, how to have drill down features within our reports and most importantly how to have a report interact with the user.  She showed us so many incredible things it would take an entire issue of Inside Sesame to even scratch the surface. The bottom line is we can choose to use basic reporting features or we can choose to use the Sbasic language we use in Sesame to program a report as sophisticated as we would like it to be. 

What I am trying to say is that Sesame reporting mechanism is robust and powerful and after seeing how valuable the use of the HTML code that the reports are generated in is I need  to open my mind a little and try using it more instead of just comparing it to the report mechanisms I know.

There was also the question asked from Lantica:

If they were to offer a classroom style (not demonstrations, actual training sessions) teaching of Sesame or Sbasic would we be interested in something like this.

The biggest question I heard from other users all weekend at the conference was were can I learn Sesame or Sbasic is there a book on Sesame or Sbasic. These classes would fill that void so e-mail or call Lantica and let them know how you feel. If enough of us show interest maybe we will get what we wish for.

Finally I want to just say thanks to the entire Lantica team and all the other users that helped to make this a great and informative weekend for me.

P.S. A big thanks to Mark Lasersohn (The Cow)  We know that he likes to keep a low profile and stay out of the spotlight but we also know that none of the presentations we saw would have been possible without the little magical features he has and continues to make available to us under the hood (or bonnet ) of Sesame.

We really enjoyed meeting some of the Forum members, although, we should have made you put your Forum handles on your name tags! 

I don't remember anyone mentioning them, and there are a few on there that I find extremely helpful.

Thanks for the mention.


And while I'm here, thanks to everyone who helped put the program on and did the presentations.  It was great to meet all of you and I'm looking forward already to next year when I'll have more knowledge. Perhaps even enough to ask an intelligent question!

Im curious to know how many people were able to go to the conference? Any idea how many of them are active on these forums?

I still regret not being able to attend. I'm hoping the next one will be earlier in the year.


Steve

Thanks for the insight, Bob. We're going to need an 'advanced Sesame' class next year.....hopefully!



Steve

....And the line forms were?