How to Practice a Technology Talk
The standard advice on giving a good presentation is "Practice, Practice, Practice." But nobody says how to practice. This is what works for me.
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Calendar
Northern Virginia Beer.js Event // 2010.07.29
Like Beer? Like Javascript? Come to the Beer.js Event at Carpool in Herdon, VA, one of the many Beer.js events popping up all over the country.
Commercial Users of Functional Programming Conference 2010 // 2010.10.01
The CUFP (Commercial Users of Functional Programming) conference pulls together developers and engineers using functional programming on real world applications. I will present a talk called Riak Core: Distributed Applications Without Shared State. (Riak Core is the distribution layer that powers Riak KV and Riak Search.)
Strange Loop Conference 2010 // 2010.10.14
StrangeLoop is a developer run conference about bleeding edge technology, enterprise systems, and academic research. I will present a talk called Riak: From Small to Large that talks about what characteristics of Riak become important at different sized clusters.
Open Source Projects
Nitrogen // Create interactive web applications in Erlang
Riak // Dynamo-inspired, distributed key/value datastore
SlideBlast.com // Share and control a slide presentation on the web. (code)
BERT-JS // A Javascript (de)serializer for the BERT-RPC protocol.
BinaryVice // Serialize schema'd Erlang terms more compactly than term-to-binary
SimpleBridge // A standardized interface to Erlang HTTP Servers
Bio

Rusty Klophaus has a passion for creating simple and elegant solutions to complicated problems with technology. Rusty grew up on a farm, earned a degree in Computer Science from Princeton University, spent a summer in Philadelphia as a professional musician, co-founded a technology consulting company, and has managed multi-million dollar technology projects.

At Basho Technologies, Rusty works on the engineering team building Riak, a distributed, scalable datastore built for easy operations, and Riak Search, a distributed indexing and full-text search engine. Rusty also enjoys talking about technology; he has given presentations on Riak, Nitrogen, and other software projects at conferences internationally.

Rusty blogs at http://rustyklophaus.com, and is on Twitter as @rklophaus.