You win some, you lose some, you talk some

2008-06-23T00:00:00Z

After my shameful performance in the previous tournament, this weekend saw my greatest achievement in tournament Scrabble to date: that of advancing to the quarterfinals of the Cup of Poland. For the record, here are the final standings. In the quarterfinal, I lost both games to Tomasz Zwoliński (the former Champion of Poland), who went on to win the Cup.

On Thursday, I will be delivering a presentation about the dark side of programming: error handling and how to cope up with Murphy’s law. The talk will last around 30 minutes and be held within TechAula, a place to hear about exciting and revolutionary technologies in software engineering. Feel invited to register and show up.

(Postscriptum 11 July: By public demand, the slides from my talk are now available for download.)

Recipe for a successful presentation

2008-04-10T00:00:00Z

LaTeX + Beamer (for typesetting the presentation in a visually pleasant, clean, simple and consistent way) + KeyJNote (for presenting it stylishly to the audience) = a recipe for success. In particular, KeyJNote, which I found only yesterday, seems to be a fine and tremendously useful piece of software, despite being very young. The only annoyance I have found in it is that it doesn’t respond to Alt-Tab when in fullscreen mode. On the typographical side, I used the progressbar Beamer theme and the Torunian Antiqua font, both to great effect.

While I’m at this topic, Jan Rychter has recently posted a great guide to giving presentations, especially short ones. I heartily recommend it to those of you who speak Polish (is there actually any non-Polish-speaking person reading this?)

Update 2010-Jan-17: KeyJNote is now called Impressive.

Daniel Janus – presentation

You win some, you lose some, you talk some

Recipe for a successful presentation