Tips from My Technical Presentations

re: Tips from My Technical Presentations

Dave — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:36:36 GMT

Chris: these are good, I especially like the increase/decrease font size macro.

I also use these, not useful for presentations but useful for development. Currently implemented as external tools:

* command prompt (in the path of the current document

* explorer (in the path of the current document)

* svn diff, blame, log (of the current doc)

Tips/Tools for Technical Presenters

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Master Class in Technical Presentations...

Bob's Blog — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:35:21 GMT

Do you do technical presentations as part of your job? Do you speak at user groups or Code Camps? Well

re: Tips from My Technical Presentations

joneil — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:31:22 GMT

If you try out the font macro (or I suppose any macro) and get annoyed by the quickly vanishing balloon help that teases you to "click and make it go away forever"... I found this tidbit from a while ago (updated for VS 2008):

The balloon can be disabled by adding a dword value named "DontShowMacrosBalloon" (set to 1) underneath HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0.

re: Tips from My Technical Presentations

DanielMoth — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:05:07 GMT

Thanks. I was going to leave an elaborate comment about how I vehemently disagree with #3 on your list, but since you also asked for other tips I'll kill 2 birds with one stone and point you to my relevant blog posts:

http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/labels/AboutPresenting.html

Tips for Tech Talks and Demos

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re: Tips from My Technical Presentations

kingle1 — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:49:25 GMT

This sounds simple and quaint, but is so easily forgotten... Don't depend upon a network connection. If you are using a network drive or Internet connection for your content, have a backup on a local hard drive, jump drive, or CD...

Chris Bowen's Blog : Tips from My Technical Presentations

ASPInsiders — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:43:58 GMT

I've posted some presentation tips in the past , so figured it would be a good idea to link to some really

re: Tips from My Technical Presentations

Andrew Badera — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:28:53 GMT

Good stuff Chris ... might have to check out Zoomit before Tuesday :)

Consolas is decent, but recently I've found myself really loving Damien G's Envy Code R font, which has an italics-as-bold alternative:

http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released

Definitely hooking up some key combos for font size, good call on that!

I'd been using Tomas Restrepo's "Desert Nights" theme:

http://www.winterdom.com/weblog/2007/11/12/DesertNightsAVS2005ColorScheme.aspx

... but recently switched over to his Ragnarok Blue with some modifications for highlighting and object/struct/enum coloration:

http://www.winterdom.com/weblog/2007/10/13/RagnarokAVS2005ColorScheme.aspx

re: Tips from My Technical Presentations

Dan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:32:41 GMT

Thanks a lot for the great presentation today. Especially the MVC stuff. This is my first time to your blog. Glad I visited. I just read the blog about the Zoomit and was glad someone asked the question I was afraid to ask. I thought it was something very simple that I should have known about. Next time, I will speak up. Thanks again.

Northeast Roadshow - Summary and Resources

Chris Bowen's Blog — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:05:51 GMT

We've put the wraps on another great Northeast Roadshow, having visited with hundreds of developers and

Presentation Tip - Randomizing Giveaways

Chris Bowen's Blog — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:03:51 GMT

A simple tip for those times when you have things to give away randomly to your audience and forgot your