Presenting Seaside at Freescale in Guadalajara
I just got finished presenting Seaside at Freescale Semiconductors (a spin-off of Motorola as I understand it) here in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. I used a slightly revised version of the presentation I made a week ago at MySpace, and as expected, the level of interest was high and the questions were good. I'm told that while they've traditionally used Perl for the web apps, they're looking at Grails and other solutions right now, so this might be another case of perfect timing.
What makes this slightly amusing is that I'm here because I was hired to teach a 3-day Perl class last week, but happened to have an extra layover day. I started talking about Seaside to my contacts here, and they encouraged me to present my talk. When I got to the part where I said that the teenagers sold Auctomatic for $5 million, one of them said "man, what am I doing here?". Oops.
As an aside, I got to do the Tequila Express yesterday (pictures and videos are up on Flickr already), and am looking forward to doing that every time I come back to Guadalajara!
