Conference Time again. Karen Nelles (WOU Foodservice Director) and I are going to Woodland Hills, CA to the Computrition Symposium. We’ve had Computrition for a little over a year now I think, and (from a support point-of-view) I like it.
Not only does CT (Computrition) run on Oracle, it was originally programmed in Visual Studio (which used to be one of my favorite dev environments). Long story short, I was very pleased by the quality, style and stability of their product.
From a real support point-of-view, CT is very pleasant in that it ‘just runs’ for months on end with no real need for pampering. Now every 2-3 months it hiccups (either due to user error, or DB issues) and we make a call to support, who’s response time and solutions are excellent. Overall I’ve been well pleased with their product and support.
So Karen and I are going and I think we’ll learn a lot. I’ve been to an ACUHO-IT conference, a ResNet conference, and a CBORD conference – so this will be an interesting comparison as Computrition seems to be a relatively high-class company.
I’m excited to go and hope to learn as much as possible. I’m also very fortunate to have the opportunites that I’ve had to travel. Being born and raised not 40 miles from here – I haven’t really branched out much in the ‘travel’ area of my life. I’m relatively happy just ‘being at home’. But the last few years I (and occasionally my wife and I) have had some incredible opportunities to ‘see the world’.
Strangely the more I travel, the more interested I am to see more of the world. I think some people probably see some, and are quite satisfied, but the more I see, the more interested I am in going.
Not that I love airplanes – but they are an occupational hazard for world travelers such as myself. I know that we won’t always have the opportunity to travel as much as we have been/are, but I’m very grateful for a job that lends itself to travel opportunities and supervisors who have found me worthy of that training.