{"id":16453,"date":"2009-10-07T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/10\/07\/i-will-be-speaking-at-reflectionsprojections-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-10-07T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T10:00:01","slug":"i-will-be-speaking-at-reflectionsprojections-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20091007-01\/?p=16453","title":{"rendered":"I will be speaking at Reflections|Projections 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

The way to get me to show up at your conference is to invite me<\/a>. The folks who run the Reflections|Projections 2009 conference<\/a> figured that out. I will be there on Friday the 16th for the job fair in the Siebel Atrium, and my talk How Microsoft is Different from School<\/i><\/a> is scheduled for Saturday morning at 11:15. Attendance is free, but that’s not much consolation seeing as you first have to get there<\/i>.\n It’s always a weird situation I find myself in when I’m invited to give a talk at a conference, because if I give a talk on the stuff I usually write about, you’ll get something like a one-hour discussion of the finer points of programming scrollbars. (A talk not even I would attend.) As a result, conference talks always take me a bit “out of my element”, forcing me to pick some topic I don’t usually talk about which still fits in with the overall tone of the other talks.\n Reflections|Projections is particularly scary for me, because, I mean, look at the other speakers: The co-founder of reddit<\/a>. Principal Architect for webOS<\/a>. Author of the Robot Vision Toolkit<\/a>. And the topics: Cloud computing<\/a>, Google Chrome<\/a>, the myth of the genius programmer<\/a>. These people do big things, and these topics are big topics.\n On the other hand, I do small things.\n It took me a while to find a topic, and then once I found it, I had to do a bunch of research because, well, it’s been a long time since I was in school. I interviewed a bunch of colleagues who came to Microsoft directly out of school within the past two years to steal^H^H^H^H^Hdraw upon their experiences and then put the stories together into a talk. If you think about it, for this subject matter, I’m going to be a total poser!\n We’ll see how that goes.<\/p>\n

(Actually, it’s not total<\/i> poser-tude, since I do have personal knowledge of how things are done at Microsoft. The provocative title is just a hook.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The way to get me to show up at your conference is to invite me. The folks who run the Reflections|Projections 2009 conference figured that out. I will be there on Friday the 16th for the job fair in the Siebel Atrium, and my talk How Microsoft is Different from School is scheduled for Saturday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-16453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

The way to get me to show up at your conference is to invite me. The folks who run the Reflections|Projections 2009 conference figured that out. I will be there on Friday the 16th for the job fair in the Siebel Atrium, and my talk How Microsoft is Different from School is scheduled for Saturday […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}