Category Archives: Explaining
Books of Twenty Twelve
People who like my writing sometimes ask me how I learned to do what I do. Or they want to know how they can learn to do it too. My answer is simple and in two parts: Write more and … Continue reading
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Eloquent Explanations Talk Is Now Online
The talk that I’ve had the most fun doing lately is finally online. Here’s the official description: Have you ever thought about how much of software engineering involves explaining things? We stick comments in our program to explain why we … Continue reading
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Another InformIT article!
I haven’t been blogging lately, but I have been writing. Along with the Best Advice article that came out last week I’ve also recently did an interview with Michael Hart, the author of Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd edition. Here’s how it … Continue reading
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Acing The Technical Talk: The Secret Ingredient
In the last two installments we talked about how to create a technical talk worth listening to. In this post I’m going to spill the secret ingredient behind all interesting public speaking. The good news is that the secret sauce … Continue reading
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Acing the Technical Talk: Getting Your Proposal Through the Door
So here I am in the middle of a series of articles about doing a good technical talk when one of my Relevance co-workers asked the obvious question zero: How do I get my talk proposal accepted in the first … Continue reading
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Acing The Technical Talk: Take Control Of the Room
Last time we looked at how to get ready for your talk, about how you want to think through the points that you want to make before you dive into the world of Keynote or Powerpoint. We also saw how … Continue reading
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Acing The Technical Talk: Preparation
Recently I’ve had a steady trickle of people asking advice on how to put together a conference talk. I’m not sure I’m the right person to answer this question: After all, there are some truly great speakers out there. But since … Continue reading
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Summary of My RubyNation Talk
Joe Sak was kind enough to write up a summary of my recent RubyNation talk, Eloquent Explanations on his blog. Thanks Joe! Russ
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Hysterical Planning
A couple of years ago I had an interesting experience that I think I’m finally ready to talk about. It all started when I was sitting down with some of the project management folks trying to plan our upcoming work. … Continue reading
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