Brainshare Day 2: Keynote Demo

27 May 2004

Running a bit late, the keynote of the second day started with an incredibly slick demo. A great demo, showing ease of use while keeping complete transparency of what's going on behind the scenes, since the BrainShare delegates include a large number of techies.

The demo started with iFolder. Creating an iFolder in Windows XP, sending an invitation to a Linux desktop, and then accepting that invitation and watching the files arrive visually one by one to the Nautilus folder.

Next, a serious OpenOffice.org plug, opening the Word document in OpenOffice, and changing the chart type and data, and saving it. iFolder does its stuff, and when the Word user reloads the document, it's updated with the changes from OpenOffice. Absolutely beautiful.

A bit staged, but then Calvin Gaisford then made the claim that he could build a web browser in 10 minutes after singing the virtues of the use of Mono in iFolder. MonoDevelop looks very slick and fast - I'm seriously considering C# after this week.

Showing off of stock buttons - for reload, back, forward, stop, &c.; Restart the application with a different language environment, and they're all sorted. This seriously impressed the crowd. And then they fell off their chairs when the application was restarted in Hebrew; the right-to-left was honored and everything just worked. Nice.

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