Jamie's Blog

Yesterday I presented a tech talk on regular expressions. Overall, the feedback was very helpful! One thing I need to work on is making sure that my examples are work 100%. I know it can be very confusing when someone stumbles through an example.

Another thing which I need to work on is pacing. Unfortunately, I did not word my questionnaire in a way that allowed me to know whether people thought I was too fast or too slow. I will definitely correct this the next time I get to speak. I think that if one already knew regular expressions, the pace would be very slow.

Overall, it was a great experience. I relish every chance I get to speak. I don’t particularly enjoy it personally, but I find being able to speak in a clear, engaging way, is an important talent to cultivate.

For anyone who is interested, here is the presentation.
http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=aqfbzmmn589_2817gbrbx6g6

I have also linked to the questionnaire I handed out (it still needs work), in case you’d like to see it or use it yourself.
http://docs.google.com/View?id=aqfbzmmn589_2899d8kw2wcz

The task was to tell a story with a message.

Lisa and I did a presentation on Circuit City. Namely, what steps it could’ve taken to recover circa early 2006.

The full presentation is available at Google Docs, and our written report can be found here.