A rant on a talk falling to pieces
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of doing a talk for the Belgian .NET user group. During this talk I ran in to all kinds of problems. I've done presentations where I was royally underprepared and to avoid that this time I actually started prepping for this talk on time. I was done on time, was prepared had 5 backups of my presentation and samples. What did I learn from this, if you're prepared other things will go wrong. I'll share the story of stuff that can go wrong. Before star...
Ruby <3 .NET – Alt.NET Italy presentation
2 weeks ago I had the chance to [talk to the Italian Alt.NET community about IronRuby](http://flanders.co.nz/2009/01/25/participating-in-the-italian-altnet-user-group/). I'm pretty excited about the Ruby language and I try to convey that enthusiasm onto my victims. From the talks I had afterwards it looks like I was able to infect at least one or two enough to make them go home and download IronRuby to have a play. It is the very first time that I get to see one of my presentations myself becaus...
Participating in the Italian Alt.NET user group
I just finished my talk at the Italian [Alt.NET conference](http://ugialt.net).
There were the following topics of discussion:
Domain Driven Design
User stories & planning game
Advanced Unit Testing in the real world
Acceptance testing (Fitness)
And of course my topic was [IronRuby](http://ironruby.net)
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Boot camp session

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Posted November 3rd, 2007 at 4:42 am
I just finished my session at Boot Camp. A code camp organised on the south island in Christchurch.
I'd like to thank everybody for coming to listen to me, and I'd like to thank Ivan Towlson for his help on getting me started with wpf and for elaborating on the section mixins during my talk.
As promised I've put my slides and demos online.
Powerpoint 2003 version
Powerpoint 2007 version
Demo
Hope to see you again soon!
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