HIMSS was a blast – I’m just back into the swing of things again in Toronto.  For the last two weeks I’ve been busy interviewing developers – I guess I ought to delegate that task.  But the choice of people you hire seems to be one of the most important things one can do in a software company so I still like to be hands on in this area.  If you know anyone, we’re looking for people with top notch C++ skills and/or web interface AJAX type skillsets (it’s odd to get these two skill sets together so we’ll consider either or).

Thanks to everyone that made the effort to visit us at HIMSS and I apologize for some of you who dropped by when I was busy during demos.  We got a lot more traffic than we anticipated and think most of us didn’t get the time to walk the floor, etc. as much as we hoped.  Next time we’ll staff the booth up more – it felt hard to step away.

I guess for me it was a clear validation we’d picked the right strategy with our focus on Iguana 4.0.  Over the last year and half I spent an awful lot of time talking to customers, understanding where the practical issues occur and figuring out how we could solve them.  Inside the company we spent hours agonizing over the UI and usability issues.  To be honest, I was not certain if customers would value all the effort we put into the product in that area – but to judge from the reaction at HIMSS we got an overwhelming vote of confidence.