{"id":508,"date":"2007-02-14T14:06:32","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T22:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2007-02-14T14:06:32","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T22:06:32","slug":"ignite-was-great-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/14\/ignite-was-great-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignite was great again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lianza\/sets\/72157594535226619\/\">some photos<\/a> of Ignite this time.  I enjoyed it very much.  I&#8217;d have to give the &#8220;best talk&#8221; award to <a href=\"http:\/\/marcelo.sampasite.com\/\">Marcelo Calbucci<\/a> who&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/marcelo.sampasite.com\/brave-tech-world\/e\/Ignite-Seattle-How-not-to-give-a.htm\">talk<\/a> about getting error messages out of AJAX apps was both hilarious and informative.   Hillel Cooperman&#8217;s talk (founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tastingmenu.com\/\">tastingmenu.com<\/a>) about How to Eat Out and <a href=\"http:\/\/leodirac.typepad.com\/about.html\">Leo Dirac<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embracingchaos.com\/2007\/02\/why_only_geeks_.html\">talk<\/a> about the future of humanity both deserve honorable mentions for being both funny and informative.  Those were the three shining stars for me.<\/p>\n<p>After having been to both Ignites, I&#8217;d offer the following suggestions to speakers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be funny.  The funnier the better.<\/li>\n<li>Keep in step with your slides.  The 15 second thing is hard, but it&#8217;s intentional.  Some speakers were too long-winded, missed slides, and didn&#8217;t seem to stick with the spirit of the presentations.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t come across as a corporate shill. If you&#8217;re hiring, say it only once, preferably at the end of an otherwise informative and entertaining presentation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted some photos of Ignite this time. I enjoyed it very much. I&#8217;d have to give the &#8220;best talk&#8221; award to Marcelo Calbucci who&#8217;s talk about getting error messages out of AJAX apps was both hilarious and informative. Hillel Cooperman&#8217;s talk (founder of tastingmenu.com) about How to Eat Out and Leo Dirac&#8216;s talk about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","category-techie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-8c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}