Well it's done - my first public speaking venue. I was nervous but it went well from what I heard others say. Not to mention as I said in an earlier post - should I screw this one up it would cost me a swirlie. :) Well, I left with a dry head of hair so I don't think it went too bad. Public speaking like that reminded me of when I got my first Tattoo - it's sort of stings while your in the middle of it - but when it's all over - you can't wait to do it again. So in a sense, it's sort of addicting.
Now that I am done with that I can focus on other more pressing things - like my Enterprise application framework "Gestalt". It's a hub and spoke model where you can take what you want and leave what you don't (without incurring any overhead using any given piece of it). I will start posting about that in the coming weeks / months.
The first thing I will cover will be the Gestalt Smart Fields (using Generics in C#) and some of the safe types that come out of the box as well as the primitive validation attributes that can be applied to them.
Stay Tuned...
Update: The results are in -- Just got the feedback from my FIRST public speaking venue. Since it was my first - I knew coming out that I could improve quite a bit on my presentation skills, anyway it looks like i did ok. Averaged out with 3's and 4's across the board (out of 5 possible) and 90% of the audience said they would recommend it to a friend.
BTW : Only got one crappy unconstructive comment out of the whole thing - and that person probably kicks their dog first thing every morning (yeah some people are jerks - go figure).