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Slides from My OSLO “PDC Fireworks” Presentation

Posted by Owen Evans on Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

The lightning talks went well, everyone was reasonably happy to sit through the presentations and I’m hoping people took away some nuggets of information that will help them divulge deeper.
My talk spawned a small drinking game (although with mimed drinks) from James. A drink for every time I said “model”. For an 8-10 minute talk [...]

Getting Oslo’s Intellipad to show MGrammar Mode

Posted by Owen Evans on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

[EDIT: You can just launch Intellipad with Samples Enabled, from the Start Menu. For some reason my first port of call was to run Intellipad from the command line]
Ok I’m beginning to dive into Oslo, so I can at least Appear knowledgeable for the PDC Fireworks talk next week, but there was one thing that [...]

Like footprints on the moon: beware your software legacy

Posted by Owen Evans on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

This post has been brewing for some time:
A couple of weeks ago I was very amused to get a tweet from Daniel Cazzulino (the guy behind Moq)

The reason I found the text funny was the idea that Daniel found it strange to have legacy parts of an application within a year of starting the application. [...]

How to listen to Scott Hanselman

Posted by Owen Evans on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Ok so you might have noticed a theme, or at least a name that crops up in the last couple of blog posts, there is a method to my madness, although I may have only learned about the method last night. (which amazingly makes me a time traveller, knowing what to do before I know why I do it).

It turns out Scott Hanselman is somewhat of an ego searcher (I see you Scott… there you are, just there), not in a bad way, but in a way that anyone who owns and maintains a blog should be, checking out and keeping up with the conversation that exists around your blog. So my plan finally worked out when during last nights geek dinner (at Tech Ed 2008) Scott did a search and lo, up pops my blog linking to his name. Wow. “My work here is done.”

No… seriously I digress from the point that I’m wanting to make. Well actually there are many points I want to make but only some of them are interesting.

If anyone gets close to meeting Scott Hanselman in person, please, please, please do so… I’m a bit like Leon Bambrick (did I ever tell the story of how we’ve both worked for the same company in the past?) I really love Scott, he’s the closest thing to a celebrity we have in the dot net tech community. Actually we have a number (Phil Haack, Rob Conery, Scott Guthry, Jeff Atwood just to name a few). But to be honest to call Scott a celebrity is actually missing the point. Ok so he’s quite a visible and well respected member of the .net community. That’s really great. But most importantly is that he has the ability to inspire people who are on the lower end of the stack, people like me; The willingness to go and actually have conversations with the community via our blogs, and that’s really where the value lies in what Scott offers.

None of us write blogs for money, if we did we’d be very, very disappointed. Rather, we write because we are passionate about something, something we want to communicate (sometimes doing it better than other times).

I used to think (until about 3 hours ago) that I wrote a blog for me, and me alone, but that’s actually not right. I actually want to write a blog to provide value. To provide insight, and inspiration (even if no one reads it) I actually want my blog to stand up on it’s own without just the excuse of “oh that was just for me”.

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