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Re: How to Demo at DEMO (Scripting News)

scott r — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:42:29 -0000

Dave - It's absolutely clear that you plagiarized this work from the brilliant Jason Calacanis, and used your programming skills and the Wayback Machine to make it appear that you wrote it 17 years ago.

Re: How to Demo at DEMO (Scripting News)

bill finerman — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:25:11 -0000

screw it. it's only a number. look at it this way: we've got 17 years MORE wisdom (if we're lucky, naturally :)

Re: How to Demo at DEMO (Scripting News)

dave — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:01:49 -0000

Thanks Christoph!!

Re: How to Demo at DEMO (Scripting News)

Christoph Jaggi — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:13:37 -0000

Dave's "Howto for demoers" is really a classic and has been at least one the first ones available and is definitely one of the best. In terms of a guide for software developers demoing at the DEMO conference it for sure was the first. You might have missed the initial phase of the PC industry, so you might not be aware that the WWW wasn't invented before 1991 and that guidance was hard to find at that time and mostly kept company internal. Dave's piece made that know-how accessible to a wider audience. Dave's claim chas nothing do to with arrogance or paranoia and is absolutely warranted, at least for people that a capable of reading.

Re: How to Demo at DEMO (Scripting News)

AndrewBurton — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:23:04 -0000

I disagree. If I'd had as many ideas as Dave, put as large a percent of them into production as he had, and then seen as many other people burst out of the gate either claiming them as their own or screwing them up along the way, I'd want some kind of Googlable record stating which were mine.

Re: How to Demo at DEMO (Scripting News)

barrkel — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:15:42 -0000

Dave, *incredibly* few ideas are original. You *really* need to get over your paranoia and arrogance in this respect - it's becoming really, really wearing; it seems that I can't hear you on a podcast or read more than 5 posts from you without you claiming ownership on this or that idea.

Re: How to Demo at DEMO (Scripting News)

Christopher — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:29:20 -0000

Hi Dave,

I applied this How To years ago when I was a newbie corporate developer and had to give talks to developers and management.

I was an incredibly shy person and by more or less sticking to this guide I managed to pull off my presentations even when they would go awry. I am a little more self-confident now but still use the guiding principles.

Just wanted to say thanks.