I got up this morning at 4:30 and drove to my office to pick up a cable I’d forgotten. My talks should be somewhat more interesting if I can connect my PC to the projector, and the Tablet PC I’m using — which I’m very quickly growing to dislike — requires a proprietary connector to do that. It’s an inauspicious day to fly, but I made it to San Jose tired and hungry. I found a good Mexican restaurant for lunch and headed to the Convention Center to register for BorCon 2004.
I spent most of the flight over and quite a bit of time over the past two weeks tweaking software, documents, and slide shows for my talks. I’ll be presenting three sessions this year, and I have a fourth paper on the conference CD. Three are updates to popular sessions from last year, and one ("InterBase Performance Monitoring: Vision and Control") is entirely new. Performance monitoring isn’t a terribly complicated subjct, so if I finish it before my time is up Monday I’ll talk a little about the CD-only paper, which is on selecting and configuring IB server hardware. That’s at least a related subject, and I like to pack as much info into my sessions as possible.
My other two sessions — on optimizing IB applications and on optimizing IB sql and metadata — are running back to back, so I’ll be able to use the time in between for extra content. These two are both repeats from last year, so I’ll adjust the content of the talk based on whether or not the attendees saw last year’s version.
It seems like every time I come to BorCon I come up with an idea for a utility that iis badly needed by the InterBase community but which the third-party market doesn’t provide yet. Some of them I even end up writing, usually on the plane home. That’s how InterBase PLANalyzer and Performance Monitor came into being. This year? Stay tuned….
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