Monthly Archives: December 2010

Video: me doing my database version control talk at PHPNW10

As mentioned before I’ve done my talk “database version control without pain” a couple of times last year. When I did my talk at PHPNW10 in Manchester the organisation made videos of the different speakers, and last week they published the video of me doing my talk on blip.tv.

I found it quite shocking to see myself doing my talk. I’m sure we’ve all been there: you record your own voice (for example on you answering machine) and when you hear it back it sounds really awkward. It’s that feeling, but then with video… in a foreign language… 1 hour long. Anyway, I learned a lot from seeing this back, and I can definitely use the video to improve my future talks. For example: I now see I really need to be more aware of where I keep my hands when I’m speaking, and that my English still has this annoying dutch accent going on :-)

Anyway, if you missed the talk or if you want to see it again, or if you simply want to see me speak in front of an audience (hi mom!) this is your chance!

Video: Database Version Control without pain at PHPNW10
View the video on blip.tv

The slides hard to read on the video because of the low picture quality. Therefor I’d recommend keeping the associated slides next to it and click along with me.

Many thanks to PHPNW, Magma Digital and everybody else involved in organizing this great conference and making and publishing the videos.