A couple of developers that attend a lot of conferences put together an online “Day Camp 4 Developers”. These are live, half-day blocks in which great presentations from recent conferences are done again, this time online. I’ve not attended, or viewed, any yet myself, but this Wednesday, March 22nd, the theme is “Public Speaking for Developers”.
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Last year was a fairly active one for me in terms of public speaking. I spoke at four events, each quite different than the next, and I really worked hard on becoming a better public speaker. (Those two activities–public speaking and working on becoming a better public speaker–don’t always go hand-in-hand, sadly.) Over the course of the year, I learned quite a bit, both about myself and about public speaking in general. In this newsletter, I thought I’d share some thoughts and resources along those lines.
As always, questions, comments, and all feedback are much appreciated. And thanks for your interest in what I have to say and do!
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In this edition…
- About This Newsletter
- On the Road => Speaking at Boston PHP
- On the Road => True North PHP Conference
- On the Web => Bootstrap, from Twitter
- On the Web => The impress.js Presentation JavaScript Library
- On the Web => Great JavaScript Resources by Addy Osmani
- On the Web => JavaScript Style Guide and Beautifiers
- On the Web => JavaScript Best Practices
- On the Web => JavaScript Resources from Peter Cooper
- On the Blog => Testing for Strict Mode in JavaScript Using this
- Book Giveaway => “PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming: Visual QuickPro Guide”
- Larry Ullman’s Book News => “PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming” and “The Yii Book”
Okay, it’s a plane. Right now, depending upon when “now” is for you, I’m on my way to Istanbul, Turkey, from State College, PA, to Washington Dulles, through Frankfort, Germany. I’m traveling there to speak at the E-commerce Expo on Wednesday, May 30th. My presentation is titled “Building a Successful E-commerce Venture, or Failing Gracefully”. When I’m done, I’ll be certain to share my experience, but for the week while I’m traveling, I won’t be too good about replying to emails, forum postings, and blog comments. Which is to say, I won’t be doing those things because, as much as I can, I’m going to be touring Istanbul!
