Looks like I just missed a winter storm that is currently pounding the Greater Toronto Area (Milton is on the outskirts of the GTA) so I may actually be snowed in tomorrow. Good thing I can work from home when necessary.
I had a good time in Vancouver at the conference, although I really wished I could’ve stayed for the second day. I want to thank Shane, Audrey, Peter and all the other organizers for giving me first-class treatment (Audrey, I still owe you that drink). My talk was really well-attended (much to my surprise as I was up against Ilia and Derek) and I was far less nervous about it than I was when I gave this talk.
I have to thank some of the following speakers:
- Andrei for putting up with me, trying to push me to eat that enormous plate of nachos, and for pointing me in the direction of the Xbox Media Center
- Sean for straightening out some issues surrounding getting paid for a magazine article
- Paul for being in good spirits despite being deathly ill (and being cool about me grabbing a menu from you like an idiot)
I’ll be seeing most of these same people in Chicago at php|tek, so that’s yet another reason to look forward to the middle of May. Anyhow, I managed to make a screencast of my talk and chopped it down to size for the blog. Hope you enjoy it!
I’m about 5 minutes into this video, and it has already become completely apparent to me just exactly how miserable you were at your last job (where we worked together). You are *right on* in this screencast, and I don’t just mean correct… I mean happy & interested. Kickass
And you got a good round of applause, too!
Also, I remember when that girl said she would have been done if she hadn’t had to write the stupid f’ing tests
Hey Derek,
You never realize how badly a job has ground you down until you leave it and rediscover your internal passion for programming.
lol, 120 hours of overtime to fix unmaintainable code!! Oh man, those were the days! I’m glad I’m out of there too.
I’m missing programming now though. I don’t get to do enough as an admin.
I remember when that same girl said that her code was 100% perfect because she tested the snot out of it. I think that code stopped wasting QA’s time 6 months later and they got to the main problems in her code after that.
Good job Chris!