SRC Extend 2010 - A Whole Lot Going On!

It became fairly obvious to me that trying to get a post out everyday of the conference was tougher than I thought, so this we be a high level wrap up of Days Two and Three. This post is chocked full of links to other sites, so bear with me.

Day Two of the conference kicked off with the Alteryx Developers Forum. Ned Harding talked about writing Effective Macros, as well as some insights to what is coming out in Alteryx 6.0 (future post in the works here...). No sense in duplicating efforts here, so read up on what was discussed at the Developers Conference on the Alteryx Team Blog.

And now for the primary topics of this post. First off, the big news on Day Three was that Spatal Re-Engineering Consultants, or SRC, has changed their name to Alteryx, L.L.C. It has a nice ring to it, eh? Read more about this on the blog and check out the new company website Alteryx.com.

Also, Day Two at the conference included the running of the Alteryx Grand Prix. More on the winner of this year's event later in the blog. For those of you who are not certain what the Alteryx Grand Prix is all about, here is a video featuring Tara McCoy, Alteryx Product Manager explaining a bit about it:

Sorry about the jumpy video, I'll do better next time! As Tara mentioned, the winner gets wins a trip for two to Las Vegas and the Mario Andretti Racing School! A "good" video does much better than words here - check out last year's winner Scott DiGiacinto from KOREM Corporation and his experience at the Andretti Racing School via a link from Sinam Al-Khafaji's blog here:

The contest modules for this year's Grand Prix were more centered on data manipulation and processing that last year's spatially focused modules, which can obtain from a previous post here. After a very close "race", the winner of this year's Grand Prix was Jeremy Kane of Efficax Data Systems. Here is a good photo of Jeremy on the winner's podium by Gary Wood:

The second place winner was Jason Dunkel of Environics and in third was Cameron Steele from Buxton. Congratulations to all the Grand Prix participants!

That's all for now, till next time enjoy!

Ron