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Notes: IWD at Accenture
→: Notes: IWD at AccentureI got to attend Accenture’s International Women’s Day event earlier this year because my friend AMI was speaking. There were a bunch of incredible women speaking, and I took lots of notes. Sheena – Accenture. “It sounds hard, being a woman in the city. Will it be different for us?” – asked a girl during…
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Book: How to Deliver a TED Talk
→: Book: How to Deliver a TED TalkHow to Deliver a TED Talk (Amazon) is packed with some solid and fairly standard public speaking advice, which was good, but the most interesting parts for me were the deconstructions of TED talks. When prepping talks personally, I think a lot about my narrative, and taking notes during other peoples helps me see theirs better,…
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iOSDevUK: Kenton Price: Teaching Your Client Android Design or Don’t be an iPhoney
→: iOSDevUK: Kenton Price: Teaching Your Client Android Design or Don’t be an iPhoneyThe problem: Android devs generally given designs for iPhone. “But that’s just like Android, right?” Rid the world of these iPhoney apps now. Used to be like windows apps on Apple. People still do iOS first, Android is an afterthought. Android users want Android apps. Android users can tell when it’s an iPhone port. Android…
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Speaker Notes: Mobile is a Systems Problem
→: Speaker Notes: Mobile is a Systems ProblemEdited notes from a section of my talk at Oredev. I plan on expanding this topic into it’s own talk for 2015. My talk “Distractedly Intimate” evolved out of a blog post I wrote over two years ago now, called “Building things for Humans”. I wrote it after I hit this crossroad, career-wise. Do I move…
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Speaker Notes: Burning Down The Patriarchy
→: Speaker Notes: Burning Down The PatriarchyEdited notes from my talk at UW Oct 15th which was in part a reflection of what had happened at GHC this year. This is the talk I live tweeted. I gave a talk on mobile last week at GHC, and I was feeling a little weird about the level of visibility I was experiencing…
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Live Tweeting My Own Talk
→: Live Tweeting My Own TalkThe other week, I live tweeted one of my own talks. It’s captured here (thanks Kelsey!). I’ve been live tweeting a lot lately, and when I attend talks I take notes and/or live tweet so this became a natural extension. I’ve noticed a couple of other speakers (Kronda and Jo Miller) using tweets as part of…
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Public Speaking as Performance
→: Public Speaking as PerformanceI’ve written before about how I prepare mentally for a talk. Most recently, I’ve started to view it as a performance and be more and more (as the fall conference season is now underway) I’ve got more comfortable with the things I need to give a good performance. This change is mental, viewing it as a performance…
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#iOSDevUK – Martin Pilkington: Thinking in NSLayoutContraints
→: #iOSDevUK – Martin Pilkington: Thinking in NSLayoutContraintsMy notes from Pilky’s iOSDevUK talk. It was so good that after watching it I actually thought I understood AutoLayout (I later discovered I was wrong). His slides (and notes) are here. What is AutoLayout? Constraint based layout system. Define relationships between views. Into in Max OS X 1.07, iOS 6. Makes previously complex layout…
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Tweeting Shit That Men Say
→: Tweeting Shit That Men SayBackground: Last week was GHC, it included a Male Allies panel (live streamed) and a male keynote event (available to watch online). I tweeted a lot (with others) and wrote a couple of things. The Male Allies panel was followed by a reverse “you talk we listen” event. There was also a Male Allies Focus group…