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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]