Office DevCon has been a big disappointment so far

Sun, 01/11/2009 - 10:19am — jethro

So I was all excited. Office DevCon 2009 was in Brisbane this year. We develop in Excel and VBA. I was looking forward to networking with others who do the same, and learning some new techniques and tricks. The session track précis hinted at new reporting techniques, building reports for excel-centric clients, new VBA forms and more. I skipped the first day because there was only 1 session I wanted to go to. I was all excited about the second day because I thought (wrongly) my desires would be met. But no. I should have read the presenter profiles page first!.

These guys were all Access gurus. And they seemed to know what they were doing, but when it came to Excel they ignored the massive functionality of Excel, and treated it primarily as a report display system.

I think I am going to offer to present next year.

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Sun, 01/11/2009 - 10:31am — Anonymous

yep..go for it

Mon, 02/11/2009 - 9:15am — Anonymous

I was contemplating going but

I was contemplating going but it was my birthday yesterday (46th)

Sure you would do a good job at presenting Tim :-)

Mon, 02/11/2009 - 8:12pm — Anonymous

hmmm....looking at the time

hmmm....looking at the time of this post, i wonder if you were the guy madly typing across the room DURING the speakers presentation.

BTW, you probably don't need any further skills if you reckon you are good enough to present...

Sun, 08/11/2009 - 12:36am — jethro

took a lot of notes on the

took a lot of notes on the way through - I was also working at the same time - its called multi tasking. Thanks for the votes of confidence - I'm going to talk to them for next year.

Tue, 15/12/2009 - 10:37pm — Anonymous

The problem is getting

The problem is getting speakers for topics. As conference organiser, I would welcome your application to present if you feel you have something to offer. The unfortunate thing about the 2009 event was that many folk just didn't want to go to Brisbane. It seems the same could be said of Queenslanders generally.

Wed, 16/12/2009 - 11:58am — jethro

Drop me a line - i would be

Drop me a line - i would be more than happy to present - I have lots to present on in the excel vba area, productivity, efficiency, shortcuts etc.

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