After the weekly business dinner meeting, we gathered outside the restaurant (in Mizner Park in Boca Raton, Florida) on a bench next to the valet parking, found a power outlet and plugged in Rob's laptop so he could show us some Flash-5 [1] work he's been doing for the website we're working on.
Fairly impressive stuff and as we discussed things, Rob, Mark and I hung around working on adding some functionality to the demo. This was Mark and I's first real look at the scripting language behind Flash-5 and in the two hours we were sitting on the bench Mark managed to implement an idea that Rob wanted.
We also attracted a rather large crowd of people watching us hack away on Flash. Throughout the evening, Mark was pestered by a guy from secretSeal, [2] trying to hire him and offering him stock options in the company.
It was only afterwards did I realize we should have placed a hat down in front of us to collect tips.
Maybe next time we do the Street Programmer thang …
[1] http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/