Scott Hanselman

A while back I posted some Presentation Tips. I will update them one day as I've learned oodles since then.

However, for the CodeCamp this weekend (surely you're going...) I've been asked to give a Presentation Skills Workshop.

That's a tall order, as everyone has their opinion about what makes a good or bad presentation. At any rate, here's the PPT I'm going to use during my talk.

Hanselman Presentation Tips.zip (1430 KB)

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Even though the soon-to-come DasBlog 1.8 will include support for Custom Macros, you CAN get custom functionality now with this existing macro:

<%newtelligence.aspnetcontrol("TechEdBloggersFeed.ascx")%>

This will load the specified ASCX control into the page at this location. The code-behind can be in another (non-DasBlog) assembly.

This won't give you access to the DasBlog DataService, that's what the new Custom Macro support does. Still, pretty slick, and a good reminder from Michael Earls.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Sigh, well apparently no one in Microsoft marketing remembers the chaos caused (and still caused) by multiple versions of Windows Messenger versus Microsoft Messenger versus MSN Messenger. And it was only a year ago.

Well, anyway, you can switch your system over to Microsoft Update (I have) by visiting http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate. Of course, switch only your personal computer unless your IT department has OK'ed this, yada yada. Looks like a new ActiveX control will be downloaded and you'll have Office Updates included within your Automatic BITS Updates. Shiny.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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I found myself searching my own blog for these three things today to set up another machine for development. Here they are so *I* can find them.

• INF: Visual Studio 2003 "Command Prompt Here" (save, then right click and "install")
• INF: Visual Studio 2005 "Command Prompt Here" (save, then right click and "install")
• Registry: Make Built-in Windows Search find text in text files with Unknown Extensions (like freakin' every file)
• INF: Clean Sources - Right click in Explorer and delete all BIN, RELEASE, OBJ, DEBUG folders

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Had the second ultrasound today and everything looks good, it's a boy!

Now playing: Matisyahu - Beat Box

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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