Monthly Archives: December 2006

How to write a pitch presentation

Here’s a great article / template for putting together a ‘pitch’ presentation by Bill Reichert from Guy Kawasaki’s blog. (Slide 2.1’s advice should resonate quite well with Mitch – given his domain name.)
He sums up the purpose of the presentation quite well with:
…the pitch has to accomplish three things:

Provide a good, clear, easy-to-repeat story—the [...]

TFS: Removing files from your local disk

Martin Woodward has shared with us a question that I have always wondered but never really needed to find out.
“how do I delete the files from my local file system – and tell Team Foundation Server that I have done this”.
The solution is so simple, it’s one of those “Aha!” moments. Because TFS keeps things [...]

Readify Tech Tutor – .NET3 virtual labs

At Readify we have been busy putting together downloadable 3–minute tutorial movies on .NET 3, we call it 3×3. These short movies demonstrate how to get up and running quickly with the new features.
They are all available on the Readify Tech Tutor website (Update 9/12: You shouldn’t need a password – we’re looking into it). There’s labs [...]

My Community Involvement

As our Readify resource manager, Darren asked me to put together a list of all my tech community involvement. It’s amazing what you find when you do a bit of self-reflection, I didn’t realise how much that I actually give back. Here’s a summary of the last 14 months or so:
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