Best Codecamp Evar

By Rob on Sunday, August 31, 2008

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Filed Under: .Net, Me

Wow – just attended the best codecamp ever. It’s gotten me so excited about silverlight, wpf and asp mvc. Jonas, who’s girlfriend is a silverlight designer, has some really great insights into how to do some funky silverlight stuff, go read his blog. I was also pretty impressed by Scott’s speaking style – he was a LOT funnier than I expected.

The fact that I got to speak wasn’t what made the day so great for me. No – it was the content of the other speakers and having such interesting conversations with everyone else who came. The people that turn up to these community things are the ones who really care about what they do.

My slides & source will go up here very soon I promise! I just have one thing to ask you guys: If you came to my talk, I’d love to get some feedback about how my presentation went. One of my colleagues told me I need to walk around a lot more – so thats some good advice for me to take on board. But I want to grow up to be a fantastic presenter one day, so please, leave me a comment or send me an email. All criticism will be gratefully, gracefully received. Unless you weren’t actually there.

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James

The content of your presentation was good and informative, but your delivery was a bit wooden, maybe down to nerves? (Not that I would want to deliver a presentation to that size of audience myself). Questions at the end are always unpredictable, but I think you handled those well, because you appeared to know your topic well.

Also, perhaps experiment with the tool Scott H. was using, I think it was ZoomIt?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx

Anyway, quite well done, thanks for presenting.

Posted onSeptember 1st, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Rob

Hi James

Thanks for that! I got the same feedback (verbally) from a couple of people so yes – I will work being more vocally animated. I actually had zoomit running, but forgot to use it :D . I actually thought it was just for making things readable, but scott does a great job of using it to simply highlight whatever’s important on the screen.

Thanks for having me…

Posted onSeptember 1st, 2008 at 6:17 pm

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