by Russell | May 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
Find Your VoiceYou have to decide or learn what your voice is when presenting.We have a lot of excellent speakers in our orbit that have very effective yet different speaking styles and you can learn something from all of them.Wes Morgan gives a great presentation and...
by Russell | May 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Unfortunately, sessions are either “good” or they’re not and you may not have any control over that.(What do you mean? I do the writing, the demoing and the speaking…I control everything.)Au contraire mon ami. You are not in...
by Russell | May 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Since 1986-2006 and 2009-2012 as a music teacher, choir and chorus director, certified instructor and seminar speaker I have been talking in front of people a lot for a long time. A lot. Often daily but always multiple times a month. That’s a...
by Russell | May 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
ICON UK and MWLUG are accepting session abstracts. Local user groups (DCLUG, NELUG, ATLUG) are always on the prowl for presenters so you are going to have to do a little abstract writing if you want to do some speakin’.Yesterday I said I would tell you how...
by Russell | May 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
I am just as smart as you.Yup. Unless you’re that rare individual that is just “wow” (I met one just last week at IAmLUG), pretty much I believe that anything you can do, say or know… I can do, say or know equally well.(With technology...
by Russell | May 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
Spoke at IAmLug 2013 this week in St. Louis.Thanks to everyone who came to my session! Really.Here are links to NSF downloads:IAmLug My First BeanAudit Application…and my presentation…
by Russell | May 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Welcome to Part 9: Our Mercurial Source Control Strategy!The final installment of Source Control: The Good Stuff.Well it all comes down to this: How are you going to use Source Control?If you’ve gone through the earlier videos on Mercurial Source...
by Russell | May 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Welcome to Part 8: Using Revert and Changing Repo NSF Files!The eighth installment of Source Control: The Good Stuff.In this penultimate episode, I show you how to use Revert to “undo” design changes and then show how to switch your repository between...
by Russell | May 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Welcome to Part 7: Pulling Changesets from a Remote Repository!The seventh installment of Source Control: The Good Stuff.Guess what? Chances are you’re not going to be the only person using your Mercurial source control repository.When other people...
by Russell | Apr 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Welcome to Part 6: Using Source Control Tags!The sixth installment of Source Control: The Good Stuff.Now that you know how to create and use multiple branches within your source control repo, you might want to embrace Tagging to keep track of important releases...
