End of April, I was invited by Microsoft France (Thanks to Pierre and Mitsu) to speak about the solution, based on Word 2003, I developed to publish content on my web site Tech Head Brothers. The day was called “Rencontres Solutions Métiers sur Office” and was held in Strasbourg, France. Tech Head Brothers was even a partner for that event.
So I arrived in Strasbourg by car and met Mitsu. We prepared my notebook to be able to make the presentation. It was a nightmare to install his wifi pcmcia card on my notebook but after several trials it was working, but the connection was low. The goal of my presentation was to show the tool but to also make a live presentation of the publishing side of the tool with a live secured web service post to the site using WS-Security, WS-Policy, DIME attachment…
One of the other difficulties was that my web site was under attack since the weekend before the event. It was not crashing but on heavy load. It is really bad for such a presentation. But it went even worse…
After the pause it was our turn. Mitsu started his 30 minutes presentation and I was sitting on his left, trying to set my notebook to the resolution of the beamer that we forgot to set during the pause. After some parameterization I thought it was ok. So I was carefully listening to Mitsu presentation. Five minutes before my turn, I thought I missed one configuration for the beamer so I changed something, clicked apply, and boom, blue screen, on stage. At least it was not the screen shown on the beamer. I tell you in such condition you feel the adrenaline pumping up. So I quickly rebooted my machine prepared again demo, and at the time I was ready it was my turn to speak. After showing the Powerpoint presentation I made about the architecture of the tool, I started the demo, with lots of fear, because the wifi was showing low - very low and switch again and again. But believe it or not at the time I clicked the publish button, with finger crossed it worked. Then I could show the attendee the article directly on Tech Head Brothers : Windows Forms : développement d’un TabControl sans onglets… Then Mitsu continued his speech. And one minute after that IO had the wifi going from very low to disconnected. :-)
Some times the demo god is with you, and that was such a day :-)
