presentations

What are good topics for presentations at .NET Users Groups

What are good things to present on at .NET Users Group meetings? ...

Technical Presentations - Can the slides work without bulleted lists?

If this isn't the type of fodder that belongs on StackOverflow, feel free to bury this question. I figured technical presentations are something that most of us do, and God knows we've all attended plenty, so I thought I'd get your feedback. I'm preparing for a technical presentation, and am wondering if I could get away with simple, e...

What is a MUST COVER in my Groovy presentation?

I'm working on getting an Introduction to Groovy presentation ready for my local Java User's Group and I've pretty much got it together. What I'd like to see is what you all think I just have to cover. Remember, this is an introductory presentation. Most of the people are experienced Java developers, but I'm pretty sure they have li...

Is there a Java Console/Editor similar to the GroovyConsole?

I'm giving a presentation to a Java User's Group on Groovy and I'm going to be doing some coding during the presentation to show some side-by-side Java/Groovy. I really like the GroovyConsole as it's simple and I can resize the text easily. I'm wondering if there is anything similar for Java? I know I could just use Eclipse but I'd ...

ASP.NET MVC vs. XSL

Can anyone (maybe an XSL-fan?) help me find any advantages with handling presentation of data on a web-page with XSL over ASP.NET MVC? The two alternatives are: ASP.NET (MVC/WebForms) with XSL Getting the data from the database and transforming it to XML which is then displayed on the different pages with XSL-templates. ASP.NET MVC Ge...

Good tips for a Technical presentation

I am planning to give a Technical presentation for a product we are building. Intended audience is Technical developers. So, most of the time, I will be debugging trough the code in Visual Studio, performance analysis, some architecture review etc. I have read couple of blogs on font sizes to use, templates to use on Visual Studio, pres...

What would you tell high school students who are interested in careers in software development/engineering?

I've been asked to a local high school to talk about careers in software development/engineering. I have roughly an hour of time to fill and will probably have 30-40 students in a class room. How would one go about 'selling' a career in what we do to kids in high school? From what I have been told my audience is going to be half kids ...

What would you like to see in a TDD demo?

I am going to be giving a presentation on TDD and I always struggle with what to put in the demo when giving this presentation. I usually only have about an hour to do the actual coding portion of the demo so it can't be too extravagant. However, using a "classic" example (stack,queue) is a bit simplistic for most developers. It leaves t...

How to simulate a Delphi breakpoint in code?

I am pretty sure I have seen this before, but I haven't found out / remembered how to do it. I want to have a line of code that when executed from the Delphi debugger I want the debugger to pop-up like there was a break point on that line. Something like: FooBar := Foo(Bar); SimulateBreakPoint; // Cause break point to occur in Delph...

Program for real time presentation

In my school there is a big flat screen monitor being displayed into the hallways that is going to waste. The school wants to see some real time information along with some power presentations. Something like maybe information from an rss feed marqueeing along the bottom with a pst file or flash playing towards the top. Any ideas on ho...

What should I tell kids about how great it is to be a programmer?

I am putting a presentation together. I thought about illustrating with websites like Facebook, and MySpace. Does anyone have children around that age that could tell me what they are into? How to hold their attention? Ways to illustrate what we do? Get them interested? Your ideas are greatly appreciated, I really want to be able to c...

What tools do you use to make architecture diagrams?

I'm looking for a good tool (hopefully free) for building high-level architecture diagrams. Boxes, arrows, images for databases/servers, everything I need to explain our architecture to guys who carry Blackberrys. What's the best tool for this? ...

I want to introduce a new methodology into my company. What preparation and approaches would be best?

I am interested in trying to introduce a new methodology to my company. This new methodology is Correctness by Construction (CbyC). This would be using ADA SPARK. The company I work for is an Aerospace company that has used ADA on many projects. Another factor is I am pretty low on the company hierarchical structure (Software Engineer I...

How do you make a good software presentation to customers?

how do you prepare a good software project presentation? How much balancing between the scripted run over features and a naturalistic use of the software. Especially to avoid something like a blue-screen of death on live TV. Thanks ...

Good forums for giving technical presentations and receiving feedback?

Hey folks, In my "Professional Communication for Software Engineers" class we're going to be tasked with getting involved in either a face-to-face or online forum where you can give a short, technical, and informational presentation on an engineering topic and then get some feedback by an audience as to their take on how you're presenta...

What's a way to create flash animations with Python?

I'm having a set of Python scripts that process the photos. What I would like is to be able to create some kind of flash-presentation out of those images. Is there any package or 'framework' that would help to do this? ...

Where do we instantiate view and presenter in Passive View on WinForm?

I am new to Passive view, I would like to know if we have master and detail form on WinForm application. So when the user clicks on master's button, it will shows the detail form. Where do we instantiate view and presenter? I don't think, we instantiate at code behind of form. But if we instantiate at presenter's method, it means we coup...

Presentation on programming for non-geeks - What to include?

I'm at a business college where we're doing a unit on presentations. Everyone's been asked to pick a topic and do a 2-minute presentation on that topic. I believe I'm the only programmer in the place, so I was thinking of doing a very simple presentation in which I write some very small programs and run them to show the output on the pro...

Any good book or web resource about software architecture?

I've created a service which enables users to connect to the server with mobile phone and send some data. Now I have to prepare a formal service presentation - present the whole architecture, how the data are exchanged and then also the complete presentation of the client side and server side. So far I haven't written any formal document...

Content ideas for a short JavaScript lesson.

I'm giving a short (30 mins) skills development talk on JavaScript to my peers on Friday, and would appreciate some suggestions for intermediate to advanced topics to cover. We all use JS daily and are quite familiar with more than just the basics, and I'd like to come up with an interesting as well as technically advanced topic. ...