I’m giving a talk tonight on MetaSharp and I’ve decided to use SketchFlow instead of Powerpoint to present my talking points. The topic is complex and I want the audience to be more interactive and I want to be able to be flexible in how deep into a topic I can go without having to skip over slides. I’ve never done this before, or seen it before so I have no idea what to expect but I’m going to give it a try.

The people at the TCLangUG tend to be more interactive and fun than your typical straight presentation crowd anyway, so this should be a good forum for experimentation like this.

Anyway, I thought the map that SketchFlow makes of all the screens is pretty neat so I thought I’d put a snapshot of it here.

The white screen is the starting point and the various colors and layers are screens going deep and depper into a particular topic. The blue lines are connections between concepts.

While running the SketchFlow player I can use back and forward browser like buttons to navigate as well as use this exact map to jump to topics. I also have a list of all connections available and even some interactive controls on the screen itself that allow me to jump directly to a subject. This should be interesting!

This thursday I will be presenting MetaSharp to the TCLangUG. It should be pretty interesting and you should stop by if you can!

Here are the details:

METASHARP (FEB. 11TH, 2010)

MetaSharp is a developer tool designed to assist in the creation of programming languages. Using MetaSharp's fully extensible, pipelined transformation engine you can easily create your own domain specific languages or general purpose programming languages.

SPEAKER

Justin Chase is a software developer from St. Paul MN and works for Microsoft on the Expressionteam. In addition to loving WPF and Xaml and Expression Studio he has special interests in domain specific languages and games.

5:45 pm at Magenic, in Golden Valley.

Here are some pictures of me from the recent zombie pub crawl:

This was before the application of blood but you can see the dangling severed arm complete with protruding bones.

Here we are on the bus on the way towards the crawl. Brittney has a golf ball stuck in her chest, it looks a little infected as well. By the time we got to the crawl this bus was totally full of zombies. The regular passengers were freaking out a little.

Good times.

For a more complete photo gallery of past crawls check out my flickr feed: