Playing the fool at Developer Day

I did my session at DDD first thing this morning. It was fun. Not sure how many turned up online, but there were enough to make some nice comments at the end. The session was recorded. I’ll post here when it is ready to view.

Then it was time to prepare for my production duties. To do this I had to do some authentication stuff which turned out to be really fiddly. And I made a complete idiot of myself in an hilarious way. I was in a Teams call with Rik who was patiently walking me through the process of connecting to Teams using the right identity.

Rik: “The first step is to log out of your current user ID…”
Rob presses the logout button. Call instantly drops. I could hear the sound of Rik’s face palm all the way from Leeds…. Oh well. I think (hope) he actually found the whole thing rather amusing.

Anyhoo, after a bit more faffing around I was connected and able to produce a session, which was great fun. The whole day was great. It’s a shame that we couldn’t meet up in person, but for this event the organisers set up Discord channels for all the sessions and this worked a treat. It is going to be interesting to see how they can integrate these kinds of things into an in-person conference so that people from all around the world (and we did have quite a few) can take part as they do now with the online versions.

Thanks very much to the organisers for setting up such a great event.