I Love To Hear My Own Voice

I travel around the world giving talks at conferences. My rules for a conference talk are as follows:

  1. Always original content. I *never* repeat a presentation.
  2. Always includes code. Either I show code or the presentation is done with some code or both.
  3. Keep it funny and engaging. That means no product demos or blabbing, and I tell jokes that people actually laugh at. Hell, some of my code was entirely done as a joke.

CUSEC 2008

I actually did this talk before the others, but it took them a year to get the video out and online. Another reason I ask for the videos now. Other than that glitch this conference was very awesome. People also seemed to like this talk the most, so I look to do more "inspirational" ones like this.


Zed Shaw - The ACL is Dead from CUSEC on Vimeo.

RubyFringe 2008

This conference was awesome. It was my last one, and also the first time I played guitar in front of an audience. I hadn't started going to music school yet here. This first video is funny because I tell Chad to blow me and you can get a good view of the whole conference.

You can see the video for the conference and my slides at "InfoQ's hosting of it":http://www.infoq.com/presentations/zed-shaw-final-ruby-conference where they try to sync them up.

Incidentally, after this conference I've started to require that I get a copy of the unedited video right away and can post it to my own blog.

RuPy 2008

This was a great conference in Poland and I can't find a longer video. The sad thing is people expected me to be a goof and rant, but I was talking about something serious so they were bored.

DefCon 15

This was a talk I did at DefCon 15 about Utu.

Rails 2 Italy

I kind of fucked this one up because my Linux laptop wouldn't work with the overhead projector. It actually is the biggest problem with using a Linux laptop, that and just about anything else involving media.

Lone Star Ruby Conference Parts 1/2

These are videos from my talk I gave at Lone Star Ruby conference. You can't really get the idea but I did the whole *entire* presentation using the backchannel on IRC as a teleprompter. I actually borrowed some guy's gigantic laptop, connected out to server on the internet, and ran a bot that blasted my presentation into their channel. Talk about tempting the demo gods.

Part 1

Part 2

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