[LRUG] Content for April meeting

[Andrew Stewart]

On 19 Mar 2008, at 09:17, Anthony Green wrote:
> I find I get a lot more out of a presentation if it focuses on  
> something
> specific. There are plenty of blog posts on scaling with memcache/ 
> mongrel
> cluster/nginx/yaws and I'd be interested in reading yours :-) but with
> presentations I like to see code.

On the other hand, I dislike seeing lots of code in presentations.   
It's not easy to read code off a slide, particularly if the presenter  
is talking at the same time.  And if you can read it, you don't have  
time to write it down or remember it, so any benefit is transitory.

You can of course look at the slides later in your own time, if  
they're available.  But if the slides are that self-contained, I'd  
prefer reading them in the first place to having a presenter read  
them to me.

Having said that, presenters vary, topics vary and listeners vary.

I didn't see Tom's chat bot talk but doubtless it was superb :-)

Regards,
Andy

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