I was bummed that I missed last year’s Animania in Sydney, but I noticed a poster today advertising this year’s event in October.

If you’re wondering what the title of this post is about, then you’ll just have to check out the site, won’t you?

SDA Asia magazine are holding their SDA.NET Conference 2005 in Singapore from the 24th to the 27th of May. This conference promises to be pretty cool for a bunch of reasons:

• There are a whole bunch of well known Delphi people speaking, including Michael Li, Neal Ford, Chad Hower and Hadi Hariri. Somehow I managed to sneak in there as well 🙂
• As well, there are some great speakers from the MS side of the fence as well, such as Ingo Rammer, and the one that I’m most looking forward to hearing speak, Clemens Vasters.
• Half the sessions are totally free to attend. The other half require registration, but even that is ridiculously cheap (SGD$250 per day, including the pre-con and post-con tutorials).

So even if you’re not based in Singapore, at that price, and with that lineup of speakers, how could you not attend? If you are going, let me know, maybe we can organise a meetup (Chee Wee and I know this great pub)

The last of the Diamondback Sneak Peaks for Australia was in Perth on Tuesday. ADUG Perth is the newest of the ADUG Chapters, only having been up and running for 6 months or so, but we still managed nearly 60 people along to see Diamondback. You’ll have to trust me on that though, because about 5 minutes after most people left, I realised I forgot to take a photo 🙁

Again, a big thanks to the various organisers of ADUG. We totally couldn’t have done these Sneak Peeks without their help. Given they are all volunteers and all have day jobs, it was a great contribution on their part to the Delphi community. Thanks guys.

I’ve got a few days of not showing Diamondback, then I’m off to Japan. More photos soon.

The Australian Diamondback Sneak Peeks continued this week with Monday finding us in Adelaide. I’m becoming a bit of a broken record, but we had another bumper turnout and the product seemed to go over very well.

Surprisingly for Adelaide, they even had a signed Queensland State of Origin jersey up on the wall, which immediately made me realise that Adelaide people must be very discerning and refined judges of quality 😛

© 2004, Malcolm Groves

To finish the week, we had the biggest turnout so far. Melbourne’s Delphi community turned out in force to see Diamondback. And finally another group who weren’t shy in front of a camera.

© 2004, Malcolm Groves

Thursday I was in Brisbane for the Diamondback Sneak Peek. Weird shaped room (these two photos are in the same room, honestly), but a great turnout and a great response to Diamondback.

© 2004, Malcolm Groves

Today was Canberra’s turn to get a look at Diamondback.  They were a little more shy than the Sydney guys when it came to the photo, but were no less enthusiastic about the product. Tomorrow is Brisbane’s turn.

© 2004, Malcolm Groves

Last night we started the Diamondback Sneak Peeks for Australia in Sydney. Great turnout, lots of good questions, and we ran way over time (just too much good stuff to show off). Everyone seemed pretty excited about what they were seeing (as you can see from the photo) so we’re off to a good start for the rest of the sessions.

Many thanks need to go to the ADUG guys for doing so much of the work in organising these events.

© 2004, Malcolm Groves