Speaking engagements

Coding in the style of Glee

By jonskeet

As previously mentioned, at CodeMash 2012 I gave a very silly Pecha Kucha talk entitled "Coding in the style of Glee". The video is on YouTube, or can be seen embedded below: (There’s also another YouTube video from a different angle.) This post gives the 20 slides (which were just text; no fancy pictures unlike my competitors) and what I meant to say about them. (Edited very slightly to remove a couple of CodeMash-specific in-jokes.) Don’t forget that each slide was only up for 20 seconds. Coding in the style of Glee As you may know, I’m from the UK, … Continue reading Coding in the style of Glee

CodeMash 2012 report

By jonskeet

I’m nearly home – on a bus back from Heathrow airport to Reading – returning from CodeMash 2012. This was my first US conference, and I had a wonderful time. It was pretty densely packed in terms of presenting / recording for me: I presented two back-to-back sessions jointly with Bill Wagner, on async. These went down really well (particularly Bill’s genius idea of using the Doctor Who quote about time being a "big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff") and were great fun to give. Bill’s a class act, and I think we got the balance between use and underpinnings … Continue reading CodeMash 2012 report

Awaiting CodeMash 2012

By jonskeet

Happy New Year, everyone! I’m attempting to make 2012 a quiet year in terms of my speaking engagements – I’ve turned down a few kind offers already, and I expect to do so again during the year. I may well still give user group talks in evenings if I can do so without having to take holiday, but full conferences are likely to be out, especially international ones. This is partly so I can take more time off to support my wife, Holly, who has her own books to promote. This year will be particularly important for Holly as she’s … Continue reading Awaiting CodeMash 2012

Upcoming speaking engagements

By jonskeet

It’s just occurred to me that I’ve forgotten to mention a few of the things I’ll be up to in the near-ish future. (I’ve talked about next week’s Progressive .NET session before.) This is just a quick rundown – follow the links for more blurb and details. .NET Developer Network – Bristol, September 21st (evening) I’ll be talking about async in Bristol – possibly at a high level, possibly in detail, depending on the audience experience. This is my first time talking with this particular user group, although I’m sure there’ll be some familiar faces. Come along if you’re in … Continue reading Upcoming speaking engagements

Speaking engagement: Progressive .NET, London, September 7th

By jonskeet

Just a quick note to mention an event I’ll be speaking at in September. SkillsMatter will be hosting Progressive .NET, a 3-day event set of tutorials on September 5th-7th in London. I’ll be speaking about C# 5’s async feature on the last day (9.30am-1pm) but there’s a host of other speakers too. Should be good. For my own part, with four hours or so to cover async, I should be able to cover both the high level stuff and the implementation details, with plenty of time for the inevitable questions. This one isn’t free though, I’m afraid – it’s normally … Continue reading Speaking engagement: Progressive .NET, London, September 7th

Presentation preparation

By jonskeet

As most of you know, I occasionally talk about C# at conferences, user groups or basically anywhere that people won’t attack me. A while ago I rejected PowerPoint in favour of a rather less formal approach: hand-drawn slides. Quite a few people have now asked me about how they’re prepared – even occasionally making the assumption that my awful handwriting is actually a real font – so I figured it’s worth a blog post. My process is both primitive and complex… 1. Draw the slides I use plain A4 printer paper and a black flipchart marker to draw the slides. … Continue reading Presentation preparation

Reflecting on presentation skills: The Guathon, August 13th 2010

By jonskeet

(I apologise for the unstructured nature of this post. I honestly don’t know how to structure it. I’ve thought of a few ways of breaking it up by heading, and none of them really work. Particular apologies to Simon Stewart, who has requested more brevity in my blog. Just for Simon, the executive summary is: Scott Guthrie is a really good speaker. I want to be more like him.) Yesterday I had the good fortune (well, good friends – thanks Phil!) to attend the Guathon in London. This was a free, day-long event with Scott Guthrie and Mike Ormond, talking … Continue reading Reflecting on presentation skills: The Guathon, August 13th 2010

Degrees of reality in sample code

By jonskeet

Yesterday I tweeted a link to an article about overloading that I’d just finished. In that article, all my examples look a bit like this: using System; class Test {     static void Foo(int x, int y = 5)     {         Console.WriteLine("Foo(int x, int y = 5)");     }          static void Foo(double x)     {         Console.WriteLine("Foo(double x)");     }     static void Main()     {         Foo(10);     } } Each example is followed by an explanation of the output. Fairly soon afterwards, I received an email from a reader who disagreed with my choices for sample code. ere … Continue reading Degrees of reality in sample code

Epicenter 2010: quick plug and concessionary tickets

By jonskeet

Just a quick update to mention that I’m speaking at Epicenter 2010 in Dublin on Wednesday, on Noda Time and C# Corner Cases. There are concessionary tickets available, so if you’re on the right landmass, please do come along. Don’t be put off by the fact that I’m speaking – there are some genuinely good speakers too. (Stephen Colebourne will be talking about Joda Time and JSR-310, in a session which I’m personally sad to miss – I’ll be talking about C# at the same time.) While I’m busy plugging events, I’m also extremely excited about NDC 2010 next week … Continue reading Epicenter 2010: quick plug and concessionary tickets

Book review: "Confessions of a public speaker" by Scott Berkun

By jonskeet

Resources Scott’s web site Amazon / Barnes and Noble O’Reilly Introduction A couple of weeks ago I was giving a presentation on Reactive Extensions at VBUG 4Thought spring conference, and there was an O’Reilly stand. I picked up CLR via C# 3rd edition (I now have all three editions, which is kinda crazy) and I happened to spot this book too. I’ve been doing a reasonable amount of public speaking recently, with more to come in the near future (and local preaching roughly once a month), so I figure it would probably be a good idea to find out how … Continue reading Book review: "Confessions of a public speaker" by Scott Berkun