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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘Presenting’

A few takeaways from Tech Ed day 1

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

just in no particular order.

I really, really need to do some work with testing the HTML rendered from an MVC view (thinking webrat for .net)
Astoria looks like something to ease some recent pain I’ve had within a project I’ve been working on. (man sometimes not knowing if I can actually talk about a project [...]

bombed out

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Ok so my talk wasn’t the best I’ve ever given, and i have to admit I’m a bit disappointed , but the Code Camp rocks.
Started out dying on stage a little, the fact that I hadn’t given myself enough time to have a practice run through, the fact that my laptop wanted to die and [...]

Code Camping

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

So tomorrow morning i catch the redeye flight to Auckland to be at Code Camp and give a talk on the ASP.net MVC Framework. I’m hoping it goes down well, I’ve tried to aim it at just slightly above the beginner level, touching on Routing, Views, IoC and some more Contrib stuff, Filters, and JavaScript/Ajax [...]

Code Camp 2008

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

I’ve just signed up for Code Camp this year and volunteered to do a session. If you haven’t already signed up get over to http://www.codecamp.net.nz and register, it’s the day before Tech Ed, and runs from 9am in the morning till 6pm,
Here’s the blurb
Auckland Code Camp 2008You heard about it. You read about it. You [...]