gentry@bcstec.boeing.com (Tim Gentry) (06/06/91)
PROGRAMMER'S CONFERENCE TO AWARD HAWAIIAN GETAWAYS POULSBO, WASHINGTON -- June 2, 1991 -- Turbo User Group (TUG) is hosting GeTUGether '91, its third "up close and personal" conference for Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Turbo C++ and Turbo Assembler programmers. The 2-1/2 day conference will be held in Silverdale, Washington (near Seattle) on July 19-21, 1991, and will offer varied topics of interest to programmers. One featured topic this year will be "guerrilla marketing". To promote that session, the first 100 conference attendees will receive a certificate good for a week's lodging in Hawaii. Other conference topics will include OOP; programming for Windows 3 and Turbo Vision; asynchronous communications objects; advanced debugging; program optimization; programming for GUIs; starting your own venture; Shareware marketing; state-of-the-art virus prevention programming; and many more. Session speakers will include people like Terry Hughes of TurboPower Software; Jeff Duntemann of PC Techniques; Rob Rosenberger of Barn Owl Software; Bill Gates of Midnight Engineering; George Rothbart of Software Science; Jim Button of Buttonware; Bob Ainsbury of TechnoJock Software and several others, including members of Borland International's own technical staff. GeTUGether provides a forum for beginners and experts alike to share, to pick the brains of some of the "Turbo Wizards" -- and to be entertained in the process (free juggling lessons will be provided). The fee for the event is $145, which includes 3 meals during the conference. Special hotel rates are available. For more information contact TUG, P.O. Box 1510, Poulsbo, WA 98370. (206) 779-9508. Turbo User Group (Poulsbo, Washington) is the independent international support group recognized by Borland International for Borland's language compilers and associated products. TUG has served the Turbo programming community since 1984, offering its members programming contests, access to its disk and video library, free assistance from volunteer consultants and communication through TUG Lines, the group's journal. -- Tim Gentry Boeing Computer Services gentry@bcstec.boeing.com uunet!bcstec!gentry "Ancient weapons and hokey religions are no match for a good blaster..."