2009-12-09

Codebits 2009

I finally went trough the Codebits experience:
I ended up having the chance to have a rather complete experience too, not only attending but also by giving a talk and competing in the famous 24 Hour Programming Contest.

Not everything went perfectly, but it was an amazing experience.

Please believe that I don't use the word "amazing" as liberally as those people you often watch on TV. This was really interesting and I want to repeat it next year, if I have the chance.

Pictures:
The title of my talk was "Distributed programming and data consistency" and there is a video (Portuguese spoken) here:
The talk mentioned several NoSQL data handling techniques, but the focus was mostly on Data Consistency, CAP and BASE / Eventual Consistency.

After watching me back I just found out how much I have to improve as a speaker. The feeling I have is like:
  • The guy which studied the subject and prepared the slides did a good job;
  • The guy which presented it must be "a bit" livelier,  have better tempo.
I will try to watch this video again before I do any other talk... but in case it goes offline I took notes too (with all the gory details I am avoiding to mention here). =;o)

In the next days I will prepare a version of the slideware with better notes, which will include the URLs of the most interesting literature I came across about this subject.



2 comments:

  1. Hi Paulo, it was nice meeting you at Codebits! Thanks again for the ride to my Hotel.

    I agree, seeing yourself speaking on video can be revealing :) - I try to do it every time, that's the best feedback you can get to improve.

    I also recommend the book "Confessions of a public speaker" that I'm currently reading, very entertaining and insightful!

    Take care!

    LenZ

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  2. It was very nice to meet you too, and you have nothing to thank me for, even because the ride resulted in such a nice chat.

    I will try, at the next talk I give, to record at least my voice. That is not so hard to achieve trough my own means and the sound track alone already included a big part of the useful feedback I got.

    I'll get that book! Thank you for the suggestion.


    All the best,
    Paulo

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