existence, refactored

Last talk for the year (barring a possible surprise talk at Code Retreat): a talk about current trends in web technologies at DevCon UPHSD. This time it’s a 20 minute talk that I had to drag out to 40+ minutes to cover for the missing speakers. Good thing I wasn’t pressured to deliver it in English.

So yeah, we had 2 missing speakers, leaving Alvin and I to handle everything.

But surprisingly, this DevCon event was far better than the one in DLSU (read: a more prestigious university) mainly because the students were really interested in what the two of us have to say. Sure, our talks may have been boring for most of the audience, but by the time we left the campus, we’ve fielded over a dozen questions, mostly from students who approached us after the event ended.

In comparison, AFAIK, only one student asked a question in DLSU.

Pride? Apathy? I really don’t know.

Anyway, here’s my talk and the slides.

Did a lightning talk for DevCon DLSU last Wednesday. Not really liking the end result. My decision to deliver it in English is mainly to blame: I wrongly guessed that La Salle students would react better to English than Tagalog (the latter I prefer when giving talks), and all I got from it was having my lack of practice look more obvious.

I think the worst part about my talk was the way how the “sarcastic-whiny-tone” I use in my normal everyday Tagalog creeped into my usually more professional sounding English voice. I’ll probably have to do weeks of voice retraining to eliminate that. =/

Anyway, here is the video of the talk as well as the slides.

Was invited to talk at today’s Freelancing for WebGeeks event. I may not be your usual freelancer, given that the venue’s not a hassle for me (Exist TechBar Manila, my current gig’s with Exist) so I obliged.

Anyway, here are my slides. As usual, they don’t make sense without me talking.

Just a quick write-up of my Pecha Kucha talk for RedDotRubyConference last night.

Full “script” below the cut. If you’ve been there in my talk, I ad-libbed a lot more this time around than when I did my Ignite talk.

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Went to talk about Ruby and Ruby on Rails last Tuesday at the mini-DevCon at University of Perpetual Help System – DALTA. That’s the 4th public talk for this year (4.5th if you count the RailsFTW plugging last month).

No “transcript” here, though. Just imagine me giving the presentation in front of college students right after I make a class roster app in front of them in under 5 minutes, installation to demo. And yeah, Microsoft is the sponsor I was referring to in the talk.

Yesterday was my third public speaking engagement for this year, the first being in Ignite Manila and the second was a presentation on Haml.

Not much of a background here. Ida just invited me to talk, and since I knew what the audience was like, I felt like talking about preparing for the real world.

My talk was delivered mostly in Tagalog, not only to allow me to convey my ideas clearer, but also to have a deeper effect on the student audience. For this “transcript”, however, I will be paraphrasing my talk to English for the sake of possible foreign visitors.

“Transcript” below the cut.

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