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my tech talk at google
Jan. 23rd, 2010 09:04 amI was hoping to get the url for the video before posting this, but that's probably not going to be available until Monday, oh well.
If anyone has been wondering what I've been up to lately (in addition to the Arisia Pocket Program and related works), I released a new software product on Monday. By "I", I mean I was the nominal tech lead and definite release engineer. By "new", I mean 1.0. By "software product", I mean this. By "Monday", I mean during Arisia; I did the release engineering Sunday night before going to parties, and I sent the announcement email from the bar Monday afternoon. (The press release was supposed to go out at the same time, might have gone out yesterday, might not have gone out yet, I don't know.)
Thursday (only somewhat coordinated with the release), at the invitation of Google, I gave a tech talk at their Cambridge office, which was googlecast to at least 4 other offices, and which will eventually be available on video.google. (I hadn't been there before, and was deeply amused to find them directly upstairs of Ambit Press, the people who have printed the Arisia souvenir book and pocket program for the past 5? years.) Anyway, only 4 people in the audience in Cambridge, but maybe a dozen in Oregon, 20ish in Mountain View, a few others elsewhere.
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lyonesse for being my test audience, and helping me tweak the talk. Still, I hadn't given the talk all the way through, uninterrupted, so I didn't know how long it was going to take. Since I don't do a lot of presentations, I tend to rush through them, losing the audience along the way, and we end up staring blankly at each other. This time, I went a little over my hour, and the questions showed that they clearly understood the implications of what I was saying. So it might have been a little dumbed down, but I didn't know what kind of background to expect. I spent a while selling the problem, before selling the solution.
To save yourself waiting for the video, and to save yourself an hour of watching me babble, ( the gist of the argument is this )
Tried to post this last night, but "LiveJournal.com is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance. We'll be back as soon as we can!" for well over an hour, until I gave up and went to bed.
If anyone has been wondering what I've been up to lately (in addition to the Arisia Pocket Program and related works), I released a new software product on Monday. By "I", I mean I was the nominal tech lead and definite release engineer. By "new", I mean 1.0. By "software product", I mean this. By "Monday", I mean during Arisia; I did the release engineering Sunday night before going to parties, and I sent the announcement email from the bar Monday afternoon. (The press release was supposed to go out at the same time, might have gone out yesterday, might not have gone out yet, I don't know.)
Thursday (only somewhat coordinated with the release), at the invitation of Google, I gave a tech talk at their Cambridge office, which was googlecast to at least 4 other offices, and which will eventually be available on video.google. (I hadn't been there before, and was deeply amused to find them directly upstairs of Ambit Press, the people who have printed the Arisia souvenir book and pocket program for the past 5? years.) Anyway, only 4 people in the audience in Cambridge, but maybe a dozen in Oregon, 20ish in Mountain View, a few others elsewhere.
Many thanks to
lyonesse for being my test audience, and helping me tweak the talk. Still, I hadn't given the talk all the way through, uninterrupted, so I didn't know how long it was going to take. Since I don't do a lot of presentations, I tend to rush through them, losing the audience along the way, and we end up staring blankly at each other. This time, I went a little over my hour, and the questions showed that they clearly understood the implications of what I was saying. So it might have been a little dumbed down, but I didn't know what kind of background to expect. I spent a while selling the problem, before selling the solution.To save yourself waiting for the video, and to save yourself an hour of watching me babble, ( the gist of the argument is this )
Tried to post this last night, but "LiveJournal.com is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance. We'll be back as soon as we can!" for well over an hour, until I gave up and went to bed.
