Today (well, yesterday) was a really long day. I worked most of the weekend on my presentation, and was tired in the morning so I decided to sleep in. Of course, today was the day that my wife forgot some stuff at home so I got woken up by a phone call to go deliver stuff up to her high school. Fun.

Anyway, so I worked most the day on finalizing the script and minimalistic slides for my talk, and then gave the dry run at 3pm.

Things went OK... some demos failed (to be expected, this was the first time I had tried the entire presentation end to end) and I felt that I didn't quite know the script well enough - had to consult my notes too much, came off a bit stilited, etc... All kinks that will get worked out with practice. For the first time ever I have too much content for my presentation... I typically talk too fast in my presentations and always finish early - this time I talked too fast and finished on time :-)

Around 7:30pm I went over to Don's office and we worked on the demo that we are doing together. Around 11pm we connected the "final mile" and completed the entire demo end to end for the first time. It was awesome. This is going to be so much fun to give this demo to thousands of developers in a couple weeks.

You'll have to ask Don what his feelings are about programming with Avalon now that I got him to write some code with it...

For those of you keeping track... left the house at 7am, returned at 12:15am... 17 hours clearly isn't the longest day I've spent at work (or running around), but it's a pretty solid day's effort!