WWDC talks
Jens writes about preparing to speak at WWDC. I’m going through the same thing these days, spending lots of time preparing for my session while still trying to find time to work on the things I’m supposed to be working on. It’s hard.
The net result is that my half of a presentation is still a bit behind where Jens seems to be. My content isn’t quite done yet, but it’s close. Like Jens’ presentation, mine’s one of the “Session to be announced” placeholders, specifically the one at 9 a.m. Wednesday in The Presidio. I’m looking forward to it — I like public speaking, at least when I’m talking about something I know very well — but that won’t keep me from being a bit nervous.
Whatever happens, though, it can’t be worse than the point near the beginning of last year’s presentation when I switched over to Ronnie for the next step in the talk and his screen didn’t come on. I stood on stage for a few minutes not really knowing what to do next as someone from the stage crew fiddled with enough cables to get it to work. It’s just me this time around (at least for my half of the presentation), so that exact problem can’t happen again. Maybe I’ll have the fire alarm go off instead, as happened when I was speaking at MacHack one year….
Jonathan Johnson Said,
August 3, 2006 @ 5:58 am
I could arrange for the fire alarm to go off if you would like
I know exactly what you mean about preparing for slides eating away at what you are normally working on. We have our own annual developers conference in which I generally give 2-3 sessions. Add to that, we shipped an update a couple weeks before the conference. Fun times indeed 
The current choice on my schedule was picked simply because I didn’t want to attend the others at that time 
Since your topic is a TBA topic, I’m guessing I’ll be there
Good luck!
Scott Ellsworth Said,
August 3, 2006 @ 1:01 pm
Hey, does this mean we get to find out what you are working on?
Good luck, BTW. I love speaking in front of crowds as well, and it sounds like you are going to have a blast.
Scott
Isaac Wankerl Said,
August 9, 2006 @ 9:31 am
Apple’s website still hasn’t filled in any of the TBA sessions. Can you tell us publicly what your session was about?
leeg Said,
August 14, 2006 @ 1:52 am
I went to that session. A couple of your slides seemed eerily familiar, great minds thinking alike and all that