Comments on: Tech.Ed AU 08: The Ugly, The Bad, The Good http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2008/09/07/teched-au-08-the-ugly-the-bad-the-good/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:46:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: eunmac http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2008/09/07/teched-au-08-the-ugly-the-bad-the-good/#comment-13109 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:47:35 +0000 http://tatham.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/teched-au-08-the-ugly-the-bad-the-good/#comment-13109 Tatham – all the guys at Amnesia think you did an awesome job. Come back and play with our Surface tables anytime :)

Iain (Amnesia)

]]> By: Corneliu http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2008/09/07/teched-au-08-the-ugly-the-bad-the-good/#comment-13098 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:00:01 +0000 http://tatham.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/teched-au-08-the-ugly-the-bad-the-good/#comment-13098 Tatham,
Don’t be so hard on you. The fact that you delivered some great talks over time and got the demo hero says a lot about you.
We all get it wrong every now and then and it’s out of these that we learn more than of getting it perfect every time.
A small failure is a bigger step forward than a small success. You know what to do better next time. You know how to approach it next time, how to time yourself, how to get more involved and how to get more from your own demos.
Look up! You’r good and every experience we’ll make you better! And be happy about it :)
Corneliu.

]]> By: jamesmcc http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2008/09/07/teched-au-08-the-ugly-the-bad-the-good/#comment-13097 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:46:20 +0000 http://tatham.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/teched-au-08-the-ugly-the-bad-the-good/#comment-13097 Dude I think that you have wrote this speaks volumes about the professional person you are and the pride you take in your efforts. One of my life mottos are: You learn more from failures than successes.

Cant wait to see your next session because I know you will be fired up and kick arse

]]> By: Will http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2008/09/07/teched-au-08-the-ugly-the-bad-the-good/#comment-13095 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:54:50 +0000 http://tatham.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/teched-au-08-the-ugly-the-bad-the-good/#comment-13095 Tatham, don’t stress over it too much mate!

]]> By: cadbloke http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2008/09/07/teched-au-08-the-ugly-the-bad-the-good/#comment-13093 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:47:24 +0000 http://tatham.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/teched-au-08-the-ugly-the-bad-the-good/#comment-13093 Don’t beat yourself up, Dude – ya just had a bad 30-minutes in amongst a whole week of greatness. Even the Don took a duck – 99.94 is still a good average. You’ve done the post-mortem and you’ll be bullet-proof next time. I was at the MVC presso & I took away a few insights that kicked me along the knowledge trail.

We’ve all got a few crash-and-burn stories and at least you didn’t call them a bunch of f’ing schoolgirls [long story].

]]> By: steven casey http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2008/09/07/teched-au-08-the-ugly-the-bad-the-good/#comment-13092 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:13:38 +0000 http://tatham.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/teched-au-08-the-ugly-the-bad-the-good/#comment-13092 hey, you shouldnt beat yourself up too much about your presentation. I was there at your session and couldnt really blame you for cutting it short, for missing things or for being generally off colour. With such a noise coming from the mobility smackdown, I feel the organisers are to blame for putting your session next door. I couldnt concentrate on the topic with all that noise and I’m sure it contributed massively to putting you off. I really think you should be sending some blame the way of the organisers. If they knew it was going to be a noisy session (and since they were making the crowd shout, i’m sure it was planned) then they should put it as far away from all the other sessions as possible otherwise it just is not giving you or the people trying to learn any respect.

I really hope that MS think in the future about where they put the smackdown and make sure no sessions are running next door to it.

]]> By: Jeremy Thake http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2008/09/07/teched-au-08-the-ugly-the-bad-the-good/#comment-13091 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:23:27 +0000 http://tatham.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/teched-au-08-the-ugly-the-bad-the-good/#comment-13091 Great post,don’t be so hard on yourself! You achieved amazing things this week. Put the presso down to good experience and use what you learnt next time your up on stage. Practice makes perfect and all that. Great meeting you this weekend!

]]> By: Michael Kordahi http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2008/09/07/teched-au-08-the-ugly-the-bad-the-good/#comment-13089 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:17:47 +0000 http://tatham.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/teched-au-08-the-ugly-the-bad-the-good/#comment-13089 Dude, despite “the ugly” i reckon you achieved muchly this TechEd, it was a pleasure to have you around and am in total awe of your demo and surface skills.

keep kicking ass mate!

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