Last night, as is no surprise to regular readers of this blog, I gave the presentation at the Raleigh.rb meetup.
My presentation was titled Self Marketing: An Adventure in Jazz
I thought it went well: the crowd was receptive, especially given it was a non-technical talk for a technical audience.  Never sure how people will react to [...]

I want to remind you that I’m giving the Raleigh.rb September presentation tomorrow.
Full details:
7:00 pm
September 15th
Red Hat Headquarters, Centennial Campus, NC State
Parking and Event are Free; Parking can be found in the Red Hat parking deck
I’m speaking on the non-technical topic of self marketing.
My talk is called: Self Marketing, An Adventure in Jazz.
You’ll have to [...]

In what now seems like an eternity ago, I saw Nathan Huening of Sprocket House give a talk at Refresh The Triangle back in July on Edward Tufte.  Nathan’s talk was his attempt to highlight Tufte’s main points about design.
Looking back, I don’t remember all the points Nathan highlighted, however, at the time the ones [...]

Often there are ideas and bits of information that I’d like to share, but they’re either not formed enough or long enough for me to make them into a blog post.  They also want to be longer than 140 characters, so I can’t post them to Twitter.
This is a case of form dictating function.  Long [...]