graham presents...

Yesterday I did a presentation on the project that I had been working on for other developers on the team. My manager and my former manager were present. Failing the second coming of Alan Turing interrupting the proceedings, it really couldn't have gone any better than it did, and many people congratulated me on the presentation and the work that I had done on the project. A couple of people even said they understood the project better now than before the presentation, which I think is an even better compliment. I had been nervous about the presentation since I agreed to do it several weeks ago. In elementary school I totally forgot what I was going to say during a speech contest in front of the entire school. Yesterday though, I felt comfortable as I looked at people's faces. PHP Guy even nodded in approval when I said that all feature and bug fix checkins for the project should include a test case. My manager asked when we were going to have a ruby version because he prefers dots to arrows. My manager has a tendency to offer suggestions that are really not that helpful, but the truth is we can do a ruby version when there is an internal need or customers are asking for it, so that is what I said. After the presentation I thanked Bee Man for his help and teamwork on the project and the presentation.