One of the sessions I’ve submitted for DDD is "So you want to be a speaker"; which has the following abstract; Is being in the audience no longer enough? Do you long for the fame, the glory, the groupies that come with being a DDD presenter? Then come along to this discussion/Q&A panel with some of the UK’s top speakers; we’ll cover topics like "How do I get started?", "Am I good enough?", "Is bad feedback the best feedback?", "Powerpoint, is it the work of the devil?", "When good questions go bad", "My demo code worked earlier" and...
Can someone please take Steve Clayton’s geek credentials away please? The Blue Monster is bad enough but this latest post takes the biscuit; if you think anyone in the audience can trip you up on the topic you’re about to speak about, you should be questioning why you’re up there presenting. Wow. Just wow. Maybe it’s easier when you are just talking marketing, but is Steve really saying DPE should cancel the Visual Studio 2008 launch tours? That’s what it sounds like. When giving technical presentations, especially overviews, in such a rapidly evolving landscape knowing everything is next to...