What not to do

September 8, 2006 by Nitin Dahyabhai.

“The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!”

Craig Salter and I were scheduled to give a talk on the XML Tools present within WTP, he covering the advanced UI features in the WSDL and XSD editors, and I covering some of the APIs that made it possible. In contrast to the presentation I participated in for EclipseCon 2005, our EclipseWorld 2006 presentation was in the last time slot on the last day. Anyone who knows me knows I’m a worrier, and really I spent most of the week trying to plan out what I was going to say. The distance from my hotel [which was recommended by the organizers] to the one where the event was at also made every day pretty tiring (I tried walking it the first few days to save the company cab fare), so by the time our presentation came around I was almost exhausted. I’d put everything I wanted to say into the slides not realizing that it would look like I was just reading them off instead of actually speaking. I think it went terribly, but Craig and the eventual audience feedback both disagreed.

Still, lessons for next year.

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