I was invited to come and present at the Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta in Denver, Colorado. It was the first time I'd been asked to present in a location not in Southern California and I was pretty jazzed about it. I've been working on a project mashing up a bunch of different technologies to generate Office 2007 format documents on a server and have built a pretty nifty presentation around that.
Things were going well, I had practiced and prepared, but then my laptop decided it DID NOT want to connect to the projectors provided. Well, not to be stopped by a silly little thing called technology, I looked around, saw this funky looking document projector thingy on the desk, tossed by laptop under it and away I went. Talk about an icebreaker. There was lots of applause and really great feedback. One attendee even took these pictures.
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Here is my slide deck as well, Creating Personalized Documents with a Mashup of Technologies (and some other nifty stuff)
Thanks to Julie Yack for having me. And to Emily Parker and Sasha Krsmanovic at Telerik for sending me.
Time to figure out this projector issue.
James