It's done.. I have finally given the presentation I was supposed to give for, I don't know, one month.. I have trying to avoid it, plus there were a lot of more pressing tasks to be completed. The task being the completion of a project and all.
Anyways, I should tell you what the presentation was about. It was about .NET Framework 3.0/3.5.
The story behind why I was given this particular topic to present was that since I joined I had been nagging everyone to migrate to 3.5 or at least make the new applications in 3.5. They finally got me to stay quiet by saying "Why don't you give a presentation on .NET Framework 3.5? Just highlight the new technologies introduced and convince us that we should migrate."
And since then I stopped mentioning 3.5.
Not that I didn't want to go through the hassle of making the presentation slides. It had more to do with gathering up the courage to speak in front of so many people (that means 10 people at the max) who you know have more knowledge than you about the topic you are speaking on.
Anyways, this time they scheduled it for Monday (that is, today 2nd March, 2009). I didn't get time in the office to work on the presentation, and I had a quiz this Saturday (which I am failing by the way) so I spent my entire Sunday on it. Full of tension, true, but learnt a lot things and that was fun.
I liked what WPF made possible, but I never really tried my hands on XAML, and I am glad I did for the presentation. Just a few lines of code were enough to get a button rotate on an angle of 45 and the window to appear in the form of Ellipse rather than the conventional rectangular shape one. :)
I might add a few references or a bit of the stuff I used in my presentation in near future (keep a note of 'might'). But none of the things I used were mine.... of course.. working on .NET 3.5 for a day doesn't make me any expert.
Anyways, almost the entire day, today (Monday) was spent on the presentation. I was supposed to cover all technologies (WPF, WCF, WF, WCS and LINQ) but was only able to touch WPF, WCF and LINQ. So in the morning it was decided that we'll go with this and for the rest of the things we'll schedule another presentation.
Showed the slides to my boss.
Then spent the rest of the time before presentation worrying about what I'll do when they start asking questions. And some of my team members encouraging me and telling me there is nothing to worry about. And also asking people not to ask questions.. the people I could ask to do so.
And installing Visual Studio 2008 on a laptop that will be used for the presentation, and not being able to.
Trying to find out why on earth does the VS 2008 on my Home PC doesn't color code XAML. Still don't have an answer for that though, can anyone answer that??
And finally the time for presentation came. Wasn't even able to connect the laptop with the projector. Two people were involved so that the slides could be projected for everyone to see.
During the presentation it seemed like I was giving it to my top-most boss only, with a few glances to the other people in the room. Couldn't help it. Even back in the days I used to debate, I concentrated mostly on one particular portion of the audience and had to make an effort to look at the others too.
A lot of questions were asked.
None of which I was able to answer :P
People got really excited about WPF though. :) And liked the two code examples I put in. :)
All in all the presentation went okay. With my supervisor supporting me by answering all the questions that were targeted towards me. And the rest of the team chipped in nice comments about the presentation and encouragement after the presentation ended. :D And it really felt good to hear those comments. :)
The remaining day was spent thinking 'shukar hai ho gaye presentation, tension to khatam huai'.
So an entire day was spent on a presentation. :P
Disclaimer: :P
This post is more for memory then for my two or three readers.. :) I should, like everyone else, keep the tag 'Dear Diary' as I have so many posts which fits this category. :)
3 comments:
:D truly magical … i must say :P
Take it in the way that people slept while you give your presentation including the teacher means you don't need to prepare very cautiously for that kind of boring presentations
For clients and colleagues I wish you Best of luck :)
and dear its not about losing little or more confidence its about your are underestimating your self
Just keep one thing in mind" i can do it{ and every thing will be easy for you
I applied it first for Management presentation with you, even due to lack of speakers our presentation didn’t go as we were planning but still it was good enough to make mates to listen to us
i still remember before presentation in seminar, i was running out of words, i was feeling like as everything is flying form my mind, i don’t know what to say, how to say and then you pat me, boost a bit confidence in me and we both did a good deal of job :)
Here you need to do the same, pat your self, take a deep breath and wrap the people in your magic spell;)
Good Luck!
Originally Posted on:
December 2, 2008 3:28 AM
You are right when you say that presentations have now become a part of our life. And its a positive sign that you have identified your weakness. This is the first step to getting rid of this weakness.
Just to get your hopes high, even the best of public speakers have hard times speaking in public. Players go through bad patches. The great ones are those who combat them and come out of it.
Another thing, no matter how bad your presentation may have been mine was not all that good as well. At least not to me, that is why I did not even mention it on my Blog
Originally Posted on:
December 2, 2008 5:14 AM
@Ayesha
Thanks yaar.
Yeah I remember Managment presentation. Yaar speakers ka scene ho gaya tha na... but that's the whole point, ideas came to me back in those days.. now it seems like I am out of ideas, ideas to make the presentation a bit better, and a bit more bearable.
@Muhammad Ammad
You didn't mention about your presentation in your blog. Mine was much boring, and I still mentioned it.. for the pure reason... I am dheeth. I even told my supervisor that I gave a presentation today at uni and even my teacher slept. And I start telling this to everyone.. isay kehtay hain dhitai :P :P
And I hope you do remember our deal. :)
Originally Posted on:
December 7, 2008 7:48 AM
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