Seen And Heard At DevCon

Posted October 6 1999

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Photos by Dave Harms, Larry Teames, and Russ Eggen

The last DevCon of the millennium (okay, so that's being just a little grandiose, not to say technically inaccurate) has wrapped up, the cleaning crew has removed the last discarded third party flyers and washed the drool out of the carpets, and life in Fort Lauderdale and in Pompano Beach is returning to normal, whatever that is. Here's one more look at the DevCon that was.

The week kicked off with registration - here Arnold Young gets his license to cause trouble from Susie Buchler.

 

 

 

 

Richard Chapman, TopSpeed's elegantly dressed VP of R&D, keeps a sharp
eye out for the paparazzi.

 

 

 

The Hyatt Regency is located next to a marina (in fact there is a yacht brokerage as well, so if you're so inclined you can purchase the yacht of your choosing, say, after the last conference session and before happy hour).

It may be a bit difficult to make out the lettering on this yacht, but if you look closely you'll understand why Larry Teames has been one of the last third party vendors to embrace ABC.

Chubby Bunny MPEGs
At the Key West Fest Arthur Barrington hosted a contest in which the entrants had to stuff as many marshmallows as possible in their mouths and still be able to say "Chubby Bunny"

MPEG of AR explaining the contest (368k)

MPEG of the contest in progress (304k)

MPEG of the winner (320k)

 

From left, Brian Staff, Andrew "Cajun" Guidroz II, Bernie Grosperrin, Mike Pasley, and the back of Bruce Johnson's head. Obviously these guys don't have enough to do.

 

 

 

 

RKC tries to use the debugger as the least-recognized man at DevCon (aka SuRF)  looks on.

 

 

It's David Bayliss! Ah, no, the hat fooled
me. It's just Andy "Cowboy" Stapleton.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arnor Baldvinsson (left) arrived from Iceland, on his way to Australia. Craig Ransom anxiously tries to get the cameraman's attention to explain why there appears to be a plant growing out of Arnor's head.

 

 

Pete Halsted (NextAge Consulting) travels with his Sony Vaio system, rather than a regular laptop. Note the flat panel display and the slimline desktop. The whole thing fits neatly into a carryon bag. The picture below also shows the Vaio mini-laptop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's Bob Z (Zaunere) and Mini-Z, who always gets nervous when Bob starts waving his hands around like that. 

 

 

 

 

 

Is this thing pointed the right direction? Your roving reporter tries to figure out his new digital camera.

 

 

 

 

 

If you could read that name tag, you'd find it says Alexey Solovjev. Alexey is something of a legend in Clarion circles. Before he went to work for TopSpeed he used to submit bug reports in which he not only described the problem, he described where in the original source code the fix should be made. He determined this by disassembling the object code. TopSpeed wisely decided it was best to have Alexey on their team.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Susie Buchler, Kelly Zaunere, and Esli Badenhorst compare notes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lunches were served in the ballroom, a short walk from the hotel and adjacent to the marina. This was also the site of the Key West Fest.

 

 

 

 

In a moment of sudden terror, Cowboy wonders if Scott Ferrett was right.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carl "Do you need a Clarion search program?" Barnes ropes and hog-ties another customer. Even the hotel staff are looking over his brochures.

 

 

 

 

For those who couldn't handle the sessions anymore, there was always life at the pool.

 

 

 

 

Ah, well, the less said
about this the better, eh Brian?

 

 

 

 

 

The London developers were treated to a cruise aboard Hank Asher's yacht, which reportedly costs $71 per minute to run. What does that come to per developer per hour?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lisa Simmons, former TS developer
and now reported to be the project leader
at eData, enjoying the yachting life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From left, clockwise, Stamos Fafalios, Bruce Barrington,
Hank Asher, Ole Poulson, Kelly Zaunere, Scott Ferrett,
and Michael Ledet (eData).

 

 

 

These guys are all wearing white shirts. Must be the crew, which makes you wonder why they aren't busy swabbing the decks. From left, Gavin Halliday, Richard Chapman, Andy Ireland, and Bu...Tom Moseley (who works for eData).

 

 

 

 

What would DevCon be without a secret meeting or two? Here some of the TTS guys hang out at an undisclosed location with a top TS official whose identity must be protected. From left, Andy Stapleton, Brian Staff, Dave Harms, Ross Santos, Mr. X, Bruce Wells, Mike Pickus, and Andrew Guidroz II.

 

Steve Parker's been contending that the Internet Connect support team are identical twins (yes, I know there are four of them). He's right; they look so much alike, I can't tell them apart. In alphabetical order: Arnor Baldvinsson, Jim Defabia, Steve Parker and Mike Pasley.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the new, improved Bruce Wells!
Well maybe just a bit too improved at the moment.

 

 

 

 

And finally, the last word in cool: Tommy Tequila and Charli Carlson.

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