Puttin On The Ritz

The Mid-Western User Group meeting was held on Thursday with folks coming in from as far away as Indiana and Illinois.  It was, as usual, a family reunion atmosphere with familiar faces and warm greetings.  What strikes me about the content, looking back at it, is the amount of information exposure possiblities.  MITS 2nd go-round on its report writer looks well done.  The NovoRoiSystems real-time SQL data warehouse continues to wow.  Now with more in-bound interfacing it is starting to grow into something much more significant than just an on-ramp to MS Reporting Services.  I spent some time on the growing ATOM/RSS news feed capabilities.

The most fun, for me, was showing off the 7.3 web UI improvements with Last Keys, Most Recently Used stacks and AutoFill.  We broke the seamingly endless barage of technical detail with YouTube clips from the "Puttin On The Ritz" Gene Wilder/Peter Boyle song and dance number in "Young Frankenstein".  Don't know that I could sing and dance on the same stage as Gene Wilder, but I feel pretty confident about being able to croon along with the monster!

After a memorial day break I'll be heading back into the 15 portal projects.  I am adding a news reader panel that can display a configurable Manage 2000 news feed, and converting them from XSLT generated forms to WebControls so that they can be controlled through the PageViewFilter system. Fun, fun, fun....