A Week In New Orleans
February 7th, 2007
Well, I have been in New Orleans at SolidWorks World for three days now. This really is an amazing city. The temperature has been around 15C all week compared to -38C back home. It has been wonderful. It has also been a busy week and there has been little time for sightseeing. We’ve had fun in the evenings – at Harrah’s casino and on Bourbon Street – but have done little outside work during the days. I am thinking I’ll have to come back here for a vacation some day.
There are six of us from Cover-All here for the conference: four from the Engineering department and myself and my boss Rob from the IT department. The main reason Rob and I came here was to meet with the people who make DriveWorks, the automation software we are implementing. They are from England and are a truly awesome group of people. We had a blast with them last night lighting up Bourbon Street. Philip, their lead programmer, is definitely a kindred soul and we had tonnes to talk about. Philip, Glen (the DriveWorks CEO) and I had a few great discussions about our shared love of the old British series Red Dwarf!
The Keynote speaker for the conference this year was Steve Wozniak. It was a real treat to see him speak – the man sure can talk. He talked so fast he was able to tell the story of 2/3 of his book in an hour and fifteen minutes. I was able to meet him and get my copy of his book signed. It was awesome!
Unfortunately, we had a little too much fun last night and Rob and I were not quite able to make it to the general session this morning. So, we missed Leonard Nimoy. He was a surprise guest. As much as this sucks, at least we didn’t miss Shatner!
This week hasn’t been all about fun and games. We have gotten a lot of really good information which will help us finish up our implementation. We had a meeting with the DriveWorks team where we were able to show them our setup in progress and get some feedback and help from them about what we’re doing. We were also able to connect with a guy from Michigan who’s company is doing an implementation in much the same way that we are.
Our flight home leaves tomorrow morning at 6am so this is going to be an early night. I’ll post the few pictures I have been able to take after I get back home.
February 8th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Dude, you missed seeing Nimoy?! For shame
Glad to hear you’re having a blast, give me a shout when you get back in town.
Peace