--- "John W. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, live demos are great, but I don't want to sit there and watch > you type all of your PHP code. Have it already typed and just load > it, explain it, and run it.
I guess it depends. I agree with you on some level, but I have seen the live demos work. And, the best ones are often used as answers to a question from the audience, so preparation ahead of time isn't an option. If you're speaking from specific experience, the speaker may have stopped speaking while typing (very bad), typed slow, or had an unnecessarily complex example. > Maybe this is where my experience in doing briefings to military > personnel vs. doing presentations to civilians would hurt me. :) > > If I'm boring and people fall asleep, I can make them do push-ups > or jumping-jacks in the back of the room. heh... Actually, I would love to see something crazy like that at a PHP conference. :-) > > http://perl.plover.com/yak/presentation/samples/slide001.html > > Awesome link w/great info. He agrees with you on the pictures, "even > if they are pointless" he says. :) Yeah, which may be true (he is an excellent speaker, after all), but I have a hard time agreeing with the pointless part. > Although I would like to hear from other presenters and attendees on > what they think with specific regards to PHP/programming > presentations. Me, too. I'd be more interested in hearing from attendees than speakers, in fact. Chris ===== Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ PHP Security - O'Reilly Coming mid-2004 HTTP Developer's Handbook - Sams http://httphandbook.org/ PHP Community Site http://phpcommunity.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
