Democamp a blast! Blew their brains to bits

2006-10-24T09:31:00Z

I set out to geek the heck out of Toronto's hippest geeks, and I did.
I showed them Emacs as they'd never seen it before—and even that was
a tiny fraction of my config. Lots of cool stuff behind the scenes,
too. When I showed them M-x doctor (the Emacs psychotherapist),
someone shouted out, “Is Emacs talking to you?” I laughed and
continued. What I *really* should've done was break the sequence of my
presentation, hook up the speakers, and tell them about Emacspeak –
presentation sequence be darned. ;) Oh, if they only knew how easy it
was to make jokes reality under Emacs! I remember writing my ‘bot
implants' – the hippie-expand code I used to answer questions really
really quickly on IRC…

Anyway. That was FUN. And it was relatively easy to get through,
especially with the cue system I made (Emacspeak rocks!). I'll talk
about that some other time. It's a really cool hack and well worth exploring.

SO. The democamp.ca folks will eventually get
around to posting a vidcast. In the meantime, I have a 431MB MPEG
movie that I need to either downsample or cut up in order to put
online, maybe on YouTube. I don't have
enough memory or hard disk space to play around with this (have you
seen my computer?!), but I'll happily put the video up if we can
figure out how to go about doing that.

If you enjoyed the talk, missed it, or just want to hear/see me bounce
up and down about Emacs some more, come to the Linux Caffe
on Saturday (Oct 28, 2006) from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM. I'll be there,
and we might even see about having some kind of mini-show / vidcast. I wonder if
David has a projector. =)

That was fun! Can't wait to do it again!

Random Emacs symbol: comint-input-sender-no-newline – Variable: Non-nil directs the `comint-input-sender' function not to send a newline.

You can e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com.

Sacha Chua - tag - democamptoronto10

Democamp a blast! Blew their brains to bits