Guy,

You described the experience perfectly. I saw those types of demos from Ken, and they were great for whipping up your enthusiasm about the tool, seeing he possibilities, promoting VFP. On the other hand, I am sure Ken got criticized because they were not very understandable or actually useful. You just felt great about VFP and very motivated.

He has to accomplish other things now, but including a little razzle-dazzle somewhere in the presentation is important. BTW, he did some of that in the Scobble interview, but at a more beginner level. Remember how Scobble kept saying, "hey, how come we don't have that!" ? Something as easy as doing fancy stuff from the command window can blow the mind of someone who has never seen it. I think the Scobble interview was *very* effective. Wish there could be more like it. Maybe there are some films of some of the classic demos that could be offered for download?

Alex

>Ken,
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>The video seemed OK to me.
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>I think what some others may be referring to is the memories of how you can be in the middle of a presentation, whipping through some code, and pausing as an idea hits your mind and then you go off on a tangent and create the world database or something... on the fly... right in front of everyone's eyes. The average developer can only partially follow you, because not only do you think and talk so darn fast, but you type about 190,000 miles an hour. And when it's over, there we are... mere mortals... stunned... amazed at what has just taken place... and slightly upset at ourselves because we couldn't take enough notes... it was all happening so fast. But our regret is offset by the endorphines floating around in our head. We're excited because we... mere mortals... had the fortunate pleasure of seeing this live and in person. And we know that someday in the future, we'll be sitting around having a few beers musing over former times and someone will say, "Remember when Ken Levy..."
> and we can say, "YES!, I SAW THAT! Is that guy, like, Data on Star Trek or something?"
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>You see, now that you're settling down in a more executive role, your presentations are more focused and controlled. Heck, even a mortal can do these presentations.
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>It's not that we don't appreciate it... It's just that a lot of us remember that long-haired kid who would walk into a room of world-class developers, do a presentation, and have everyone walking out with their head spinning.
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>It's hard to forget things like that. And I think somewhere in the human psyche, there's this thing nagging at us. Once we see it for the first time, we want to see it every time.
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>Regardless of our memories or expectations, you're doing a great job. Keep it up.
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>Guy