Across on his blog, Dave McMahon says nice things about my presentation.
"I was really impressed with Gary, nice delivery style and a well covered subject."
He also goes on to say...
"He seemed to run out of steam about 40mins in which was a shame"
Dave was spot on. I'd contracted tonsillitis the week before DDD5 and that meant I missed an opportunity to rehearse my talk in front of an audience at work. If I had, I'd have realised that the rhythm of the talk went off around the 40 minute mark. I've since made the necessary changes to the presentation, so the next time I give it, it should be spot on. Also, due to the tonsillitis, my energy levels where a bit low, so I just didn't have the energy to lift the talk at that point. It was a shame that the first time I gave the talk was at Developer Day, as the first one is never the best - thought I might have gotten away with it though ;-)
With regards to Developer Day, I'll make my presentations slides (both the main one and my grok talk) available for download as soon as possible, but right now I have to go and do some real work!
Update: As more people get back from the event and start blogging there's quite a bit of positive feedback coming through for my presentation...
http://www.peat.me.uk/2007/07/01/a-busy-saturday/
http://blog.colinmackay.net/archive/2007/06/30/89.aspx
http://leedale.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/ddd5-at-microsoft-tvp-reading/
http://geekswithblogs.net/twickers/archive/2007/07/02/113645.aspx
http://www.hughson.co.uk/?p=19
It'll be interesting to see if that is reflected in the official feedback when it comes out.