{"id":2392,"date":"2017-10-06T11:35:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T17:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2017-06-11T20:52:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T02:52:32","slug":"meetup-talk-outline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2392","title":{"rendered":"Meetup talk outline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are thinking about doing a tech talk at a meetup, you should!\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great way to deepen your experience, try a different skill and learn a lot.\u00a0 It also has the benefit of making you a higher profile developer.<\/p>\n<p>I was coercing a friend into talking at a meetup and he asked if I had any questions for his talk.\u00a0 &#8216;X&#8217; is what he was talking about.\u00a0 (Where &#8216;X&#8217; in this case was webhooks, but it could be any technology or protocol that is of interest to you.)<\/p>\n<p>I rattled off the following set of questions that would be of interest.\u00a0 I thought they might make a good template for any future meetup talks, so wanted to record them here for posterity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what is X?<\/li>\n<li>why does X exist?<\/li>\n<li>what are prominent apps that use this tech?<\/li>\n<li>how do you use it?<\/li>\n<li>how would you test it?<\/li>\n<li>how do you deal with dev\/test\/prod environments?<\/li>\n<li>are there any gotchas?\u00a0 Have any war stories?<\/li>\n<li>how do you troubleshoot?<\/li>\n<li>alternatives?\u00a0 strengths and weaknesses of this solution or the alternatives?<\/li>\n<li>any third party libraries that someone should be aware of?\u00a0 How about tools?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you want to hear from presenters?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are thinking about doing a tech talk at a meetup, you should!\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great way to deepen your experience, try a different skill and learn a lot.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}