devSolo

As soon as I woke up from the post-codestock awesomeness at Alan Stevens’ house, I left to go on vacation with my family. We are chilling out at a hotel in Gatlinburg, TN and the WiFi finally started working. Since I’m off of work for the whole week for 4th of July shutdown inventory…. I’m gonna post as much as I can this week on the things I demo’ed for my presentation. I cannot put into words how wonderfull this CodeStock weekend has been. I met so many wonderful people and am looking soooo forward to seeing everybody again at DevLink.

Thanks everybody that learned things from my presentation Friday afternoon.
Thanks everybody that stuck it out and stayed through the whole thing even if you didn’t learn anything.
If you left early, no hard fealings, my presentation was pretty crappy, and if you feal like you could do better then I very much encourage you to do so.

I apologize to everybody that came to my presentation because I had Agile in the title and ended up focusing on the engineering side of things. Now that I’ve given the presentation I know what I need to fix and what I need to focus on. I learned more from being a speaker at CodeStock than I would ever have learned from just attending sessions. Thanks for putting up with me. And thanks especially to Michael Neel for the opportunity to present (He didn’t realize it was my first time presenting, and I assure you that he wouldn’t have let me if he knew…). And thank you Alan Stevens for making me believe that the best way I can get better in my abilities is to do my best, and not be afraid of coding in public. Not that I wanted to suck with gusto, but now I know what I need to do to not suck anymore.

And the after party tought me the importance not confusing “if you are gonna suck, do it with gusto” and “coding in public” and calling it “sucking in public”… not exactly what i meant

These are not the only people I want to thank for this opportunity, just the top of the list. The rest of the list will come as soon as my family lets go of my ear as they pull me out the door to go eat.

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