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Things I’ve Learnt This Week (19th February)

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Week 4 of my series, sharing things I’ve learnt, read, watched and listened to, in the pursuit of expanding my knowledge about software development. A slightly shorter set of links this week, things have been fairly busy so I’ve had less time to keep up with all of the fantastic content.

Things I’ve Learned

That I enjoy technical speaking! This week, I delivered a talk to a room of developers about ASP.NET Core. It’s a popular topic which I think generated the interest and high attendance. I’m quite shy and an introvert by nature, and I generally hate any form of public speaking so presenting a talk is way out of my comfort zone. However, it’s something I’ve been keen to work on; It’s a great way to share information and helps me learn as well. I had the usual nerves leading up to the talk, but I’d practised and refined it over a number of rehearsals, to the point that I was confident in what I was delivering. The talk also included a 30 minute live demo, which thankfully worked perfectly thanks to many practice runs. As soon as I got going I started to feel better and by the end, was on a bit of a natural high. I’ve had some very nice feedback from some of the attendees and I’m encouraged to work on future talks as well as hopefully sharing this one with a wider audience in the future. If I was asked for advice from other developers looking to prepare a technical talk, it would be practice, practice, practice! Having gone through my slides, rehearsing the full talk at least 10 times, I knew what I was going to say and that allowed me to present confidently.

Things I’ve Read

Things I’ve Listened To

Things I’ve Watched

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