DemoCamp5Ottawa last night was well attended and the crowd was attentive and enthusiastic. It was no wonder everyone was attentive the demos, at least in my opinion, were all very good to excellent. I had many comments from people after the event how impressed they were with the quality of the presenters. Before you start to worry that things are getting too polished I wanted to mention that code was shown on the big screen at least once. Jerome during his demo on his new development language and platform showed several snippets of code. Perhaps a little bit frightening I could actually read and understand much of the code from my old C programming days.

The first three presenters were Steve Lecomte from lead to Close, Darcy Whyte from Siteware, and Aydin Mirazee from bOK. Everyone did a great job and I was super impressed by Aydin. His bOK product seems like a real winner. What really impressed me about Aydin were his confidence and the way he handled questions from the audience. With 6 patent pending, a confident manner and solid product bOK is a company to watch.

After the break David Nadeau, Jerome St Louis and Scot Lemieux presented. All very competent and capable presenters. I liked David’s name entity recognition demo and think this may have potential. Jerome’s new language and development tools were very slick and he showed some code to boot. Scot was one of the more unique presenters we have ever had and he has his own design and development studio right here in Ottawa. His children’s DVD demonstration was excellent.

I wish all our presenters well and success in the future. This is our last democamp before the fall but hope to see everyone in September.

Cheers,

ian.thecodefactory @ gmail.com

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