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Friday, July 18, 2008

Raganwald on the Fringe of a Nervous Breakdown

Thanks to Joel, I now have a format for Sunday’s presentation at RubyFringe: Twenty slides, each on the screen for exactly twenty seconds.

¶ 11:40 AM

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Comments on “Raganwald on the Fringe of a Nervous Breakdown”:

This is an incredibly hard thing to do, and incredibly time consuming. I kept some "lessons learned" from my first attempt here: http://hamletdarcy.blogspot.com/2008/04/pecha-kucha-9-beginner-mistakes.html

The Groovy Users of MN created a Pecha Kucha on metaprogramming, but we haven't recorded it yet... be on the lookout for it!

# posted by

Hamlet D'Arcy : 2:40 PM

I gave a Pecha Kucha presentation about Kucha at a Refactor Phoenix meeting some months ago.

Very interesting exercise. Sort of like learning Lisp; even if you end up not using it on any sort of regular basis, it steers you in a good direction.

# posted by

James Britt : 4:23 PM

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