What is a Talk Level?
If you go to an event, you will often see Level 100, Level 200, Level 300, or Level 400 written next to…
Speaking
My Top Ten Tips for Surviving and Thriving in Developer Relations
I’ve worked in Developer Relations in numerous forms and across three companies (Microsoft, Oracle, and AWS) since…
Zoom PowerPoint on a Mac
I was at JS Cambridge presenting and whilst it was a wonderful meetup the projector was tiny…
Docker Berlin
Last night I spoke in Berlin at the Docker meetups celebration for Dockers 5th birthday. Oracles Customer…
IDinLondon Meetup
I spoke a few years ago at the Inaugural International Developers Conference in London and had stayed…
Reasons your demos will fail at a conference
I often tell people that I pray to the demo gods before a talk, but the reality…
Call To Action
Having a call to Action in a presentation doesn’t mean having a slide with some links for…
Fear and Public Speaking
There are two types of public speakers: Those that get scared and those that lie about getting…
5 Questions Every Speaker should ask
There are five questions you should ask an event or meeting organiser when you are asked to…