Macworld

We are finally back from Macworld. What a week. We took off Monday morning for San Francisco with the software still not quite done. After a long night and an early morning the software was finished at about 10:30 am - the booth opened at 11.

It was a very stressful morning as Trevor raced to finish software and went off to pick up posters for our booth. On top of everything I lost may badge so we had to pickup a new one (I spent the whole week losing things - I have never been so absent minded in my life).

The first day went well. Our booth was very busy most of the day (we didn't even get a chance to eat until 3) and people were very complimentary. But it was the 2nd day when things really got exciting.

TUAW, a very popular Apple blogging site did a nice post on us and a video interview that will be published next week. We then had one of the editors of Macworld come over to the booth. He said that they had a write assigned to our booth to check it out but he was just interested in seeing it for himself.

Then it just kept getting better. Several people we demoed it to said that our product had mad the whole Macworld show worth it. One group of consultants came by who were already users of ScreenSteps and went on an on about how easy it had made their jobs. This was our first time ever really showing this at a conference like this and it was so great to see people's reactions.

The absolute best was a guy who came up to our booth and gave us a thank you card and tin of cookies. He told us that we were his favorite developers of the year because ScreenSteps had helped him so much at work.

The whole experience was completely exhausting. We were up very late every night and up pretty early. We thought that things would die down as the week wore on. But they stayed pretty busy throughout. It was by far the largest Macworld that I had ever attended. There were about 50,000 people there.

My Mom came up to see the booth on Thursday afternoon. She was able to get badge from the front desk that said "Dorothy DeVore, Blue Mango Learning Systems", so I guess we have a new employee.

All in all it was a fantastic experience. We met some great people and were able to see some old friends. It was really fun to get to know some of the other developers as well. I think it is safe to say that we will plan on going again next year. Right now we just want to take a few days to sleep.

Holly was busy while I was gone. I got back and she had repainted the whole entrance way. I don't know why she does these things while I am out of town. Maybe she thinks that if I help on the project I will screw it up.