Episode 42: Technical Speaking with Saron Yitbarek

Technical Speaking With Saron Yitbarek TableXI is offering training for developers and product teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com. Summary Presenting a technical talk can be an important part of a developer's career. In this episode, we're talking about how to perform a technical talk with Saron Yitbarek. Saron runs the CodeNewbie Podcast, and others, and organizes and coaches speakers for the Codeland Conference. Saron and I both have some thoughts and opinions about how to deliver a good technical talk. This episode has a lot of tips about how to prepare, what to do at the start of a talk, how to engage the audience, and why emoji are better for slides than videos? We'll give advice on how to give the talk that only you can give and how to get the best performance that you can. Guest Saron Yitbarek (https://twitter.com/saronyitbarek): Web (http://bloggytoons.com), Podcaster: CodeNewbie (https://twitter.com/CodeNewbies), Base.cs Podcast (https://www.codenewbie.org/basecs), Command Line Heroes (https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes). Notes 01:46 - Saron’s Public Speaking Experience Prior to RailsConf 2014 Reading Code Good by Saron Yitbarek (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW_xKGUKLpk) 03:02 - The Performance of a Technical Talk Transitions: The easiest way to improve your tech talk (https://medium.com/@saronyitbarek/transitions-the-easiest-way-to-improve-your-tech-talk-ebe4d40a3257) OSCON Talk: Ask More Questions (https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/ask-more-questions) 06:50 - Should you memorize or wing your talk? Deckset (https://www.deckset.com/) 11:58 - Knowing Your Audience Jen Simmons: It's Never Been A Better Time to Learn Layout CSS (https://speakerdeck.com/jensimmons/its-never-been-a-better-time-to-learn-layout-css) 21:20 - Designing Slides 28:17 - Talk Beginnings and Endings 37:11 - Practicing and Delivering Your Talk 40:43 - Moving Physicality and Talking Speed 46:45 - Giving The Talk No One Else Can Give Related Episodes Organizing Technical Conferences (http://www.techdoneright.io/39) Conference Speaking and Diverse Perspectives with Carina C. Zona and Mark Yoon (http://www.techdoneright.io/9) Special Guest: Saron Yitbarek.