Public Speaking

Gave an updated 35-minute version of my "Cucumbers Have Layers: A Love Story" talk (see below). The talk was not recorded, but my slides are on SlideShare.

Gave a 40-minute talk titled "Cucumbers Have Layers: A Love Story" about my experiences using (and misusing!) Cucumber over the years, and described a way I used Cucumber in a novel and surprisingly effective way. Video is on YouTube. Slides are on SlideShare. As usual, I also volunteered as a Guide for the Opportunity Scholarship program.

Gave a lightly updated version of my "Cognitive Shortcuts" talk (see below). Also helped run the Opportunity Scholarship program.

Gave a 30-minute talk titled "Cognitive Shortcuts" about techniques for grappling with abstract programming problems, as well as cognitive bias inherent in those techniques. Video is on YouTube. Slides are on SlideShare. And, for the second year in a row, I volunteered as a Guide for an Opportunity Scholarship program.

Ada Developers Academy is a one-year programming school for women. I visited the first and second cohorts to cover the fundamentals of test-driven development.

Gave an updated, streamlined version of my "Fluent Refactoring" talk. Video is on YouTube. Slides are on SlideShare.

Gave a 40-minute talk titled "Fluent Refactoring" describing refactoring techniques and strategies. Video is on YouTube. Slides are on SlideShare. I also volunteered as an instructor for the one-day RailsBridge workshop before the conference proper.

Presented a talk about tools for remote pair programming to approximately 30 attendees. At the end, I invited the group to join me in a shared terminal session; we counted 17 simultaneous participants.

Gave a guest lecture on pair programming to students in the first gSchool class of Ruby developers. (gSchool is a software training program created by Jeff Casimir, who was the lead instructor for Hungry Academy—about which, see below.) I delivered the lecture via Skype, and recorded it on my computer; you can watch the 45-minute YouTube video. (Transcript and slides are also available—see links in the description.)

I went to Cascadia Ruby as an attendee, and when a keynote speaker used less than half of his timeslot, the organizers asked if anyone had submitted a proposal that wasn't selected. I raised my hand, and three minutes later I gave an impromptu version of my "Think Like (a) Git" talk to about 150 Rubyists. Video at YouTube (but seriously, it's not a great talk; go watch any of the other ones).

Presented "Think Like (a) Git" (adapted from a "lunch and learn" talk I gave at work) to about 20 attendees at a local unconference.