My first online presentation - Webex is pretty cool!
ColdFusionMike Kollen asked if I would be willing to do a Webex presentation about Mach-II to a group he is teaching at Boeing. Specifically he was interested in the presentation that I gave to the Dallas/Ft. Worth ColdFusion User Group earlier this month that covered the steps it takes to add simple user authentication into a Mach-II application. I also covered the features that have been added with the 1.5/1.6 releases. Apparently I was following Brian Rinaldi who had previously covered the greatness of Illudium PU-36 CFC generator the day before, so it sounds like Mike is heading them down a great path!
A couple of things intrigued me about this opportunity. First and foremost, I love the Mach-II framework and always enjoy preaching the gospel. Secondly although I have done countless in-person presentations, somehow I have never gotten the opportunity to do a web presentation. I have to admit that the idea of not being able to see my audience's faces and reactions seemed a little scary at first, I feel that it went fairly well.
Mike's group is using Webex for their training class, as the participants are apparently scattered throughout various cubicles and offices. This meant that I would be using Webex for desktop sharing, and Mike set it up so that the audio would be done via toll-free call in number, although it does support VoIP as well. Webex uses a Java browser plugin, which is nice considering that I am unable to do Connect presos due to the fact that Adobe won't create a Linux presenter client for Connect! (do you hear me Adobe?!?!). One thing that seemed to work well was that Mike served as a moderator of sorts, letting me know as questions came up and then relaying them. Having both of us with live mics seemed to work well and kept me from missing questions as they arose.
So - to the group at Boeing, thanks for breaking me in. Hope you guys and gals enjoyed it!
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