Blog of Josh "Renanse" Slack

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Saturday, May 03, 2008

Nervousness ensues

Well, JavaOne is fast approaching and it looks like I've got a full plate ahead of me. Rikard and I finished off the last of our demonstration pieces for our technical session this morning, so we're pretty much all ready to go. Yet, somehow my stomach and nerves feel like they are being dipped into alternating pots of ice cold and boiling hot water. Why am I speaking again? I'm a programmer, not a public speaker. :)

Ah well, I'm sure it will go just fine and the week will be past and gone before you know it. Still... excuse me while I go scream.

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3 Comments:

Blogger Paul said...

I think it helps in general if one knows that most of the public at such events give 1/1000 less attention to the whole way the speaker present itself than to the things in general the speaker will tell. So who cares about small things if the content of the presentation is just solid! :)

May 04, 2008 4:09 AM  
Blogger Yun Zhi (Masta) Lin said...

If it helps, just imagine your audience are in their underwear...

May 04, 2008 7:41 PM  
Anonymous Wegg said...

One day I'm just going to show up to a big conference in some outlandish underwear and all the speakers will be amazing because they will see me. :-)

May 06, 2008 10:36 AM  

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