The Archives
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05.25.07Delivering better presentationsI'm working on several presentations at the moment that I hope I will be able to deliver at some upcoming conferences. Like most people, in the past I have delivered presentations that largely consisted of dot points on a page, the occasional gag slide and Way. Too. Many. Words. That. I. Read. Straight. From. The. Slides. Asleep yet? No? Good. Let's continue. The secret to being a great presenter is to tell a story. That story should be related to the slides, but not come from the slides. It's all to do with Cognitive Load Theory, ...
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02.02.07ModelGlue:Unity TutorialIn case you haven't yet seen it, Dan Wilson has an excellent multipart tutorial on building a ColdFusion app with ModelGlue:Unity. I'm getting back to code after more than 18 months being a "manager", and this is helping me get my head around ModelGlue:Unity quite quickly. I've only previously coded framework-based apps using Mach-II, so at least frameworks aren't completely foreign to me. But it's still doing my head in. I'm sure I'm only scratching the surface as I plod through. As I get into this and begin building thoughtglue.com, I'm sure that guys like Dan, Ray Camden, Joe ...
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02.01.07Preventing death by PowerPointMost of us have had to sit through one of those terrible "death by PowerPoint" sessions where the speaker has a gazillion slides, all covered in tiny text, garish and irrelevant animation and dumb transitions. I'm as guilty as the next guy - I've presented some shockers, and I'm a sucker for the sexy transitions in Keynote! About 10 minutes in, we realise we've wasted our time being here and would rather be popping our eyeballs from their sockets with a teaspoon. Fear not! Two of the greatest marketing minds on earth, Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin have come ...
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01.09.07How do I join/blend lines in Adobe Illustrator?Dear Lazyweb I have to do some work using Adobe Illustrator (eek!) for the BarCamp I'm helping to organise. I have some graphical elements in a drawing that I want to join/blend so they don't look yuck. I have not the faintest idea of how to achieve the desired result. Anyone able to help me?
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08.11.06Home server setup adviceI'm about to buy myself a small server for home. I want it to do the following: manage profiles and permissions for three users run Subversion and Trac for my dev projects provide a development environment(s) for the same projects perform backups of data from other machines and itself, probably manage BitTorrent activity manage all our multimedia other stuff... I'm thinking of using VMWare for parts of this, such as the dev server. Other parts will obviously be native. Something like this setup at HowToForge would be ideal for the dev and BitTorrent stuff. So, in terms of hardware and software, what do you folks recommend? ...
