Haha, me too. Loved the slides. The real question is who the audience is (vs your imagined target audience), and what their goals are in seeing a talk with the title "JS engines: under the hood."
Maybe do a show of hands next time, asking who in the audience has done lisp metaprogramming or AST wrangling or has a background in formal CS, and you can gloss over some stuff as appropriate. Also never hurts to ask how people are doing after a couple hard slides. Something like backchannel might help you tune as you go. Alternatively, maybe you can put a little CS warning icon next to the talk description to alert people who wouldn't enjoy such stuff. When are you giving this talk next? Let us know how it goes :-) Jared On Friday, March 11, 2011, Peter van der Zee <[email protected]> wrote: > Fwiw, i liked the covered topics. But it seems a bit of a lonely world in > that respect ;) > On 11 Mar 2011 17:57, "Ariya Hidayat" <[email protected]> wrote:> Folks, >> >> At the last SenchaCon 2010, I gave 10,000 foot overview talk on how >> JavaScript engine works. The recorded video is >> http://www.vimeo.com/18783283, with the slide deck: >> http://www.slideshare.net/senchainc/javascript-engines-under-the-hood. >> >> The presentation was rated as "too complicated". If you have >> 45-minutes of your spare time, watch the video, and give me some >> feedback, I'll be very grateful! >> >> Feel free to throw some ideas about what should be covered >> more/in-depth, if you are supposed to follow the similar talk in the >> future. >> >> >> Thank you! >> >> >> -- >> Ariya Hidayat >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/ariyahidayat >> >> -- >> To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] > > > > > -- > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
