Kyle Cordes

Last night (April 2, 2009) at the St. Louis Lambda Lounge I gave a 45-minute talk on the Factor programming language. I’ve uploaded the handout and example code here. I apologize in advance to anyone in the Factor community who reads it and laughs at my “newbie” mistakes and misstatements.
Appistry again provided space and pizza – [...]

Yesterday (Oct. 9, 2008), I gave a talk on Git at the St. Louis Java User Group. Rather than a typical “intro” talk, instead I showed a dozen or so common usage scenarios, then answered questions with additional ad-hoc demos. As with some other recent talks, I eschewed PowerPoint in favor of a printed handout. [...]

The title of this post is a lie. It costs $70 or less, but takes a lot of work. I’ve offered this advice person-to-person many times, and finally got around to posting it.
How well you speak can have a great impact on  your ability to get customers, to attract employees, to persuade others to adopt [...]

Last night at SLUUG, I have a talk on distributed source control tools. It was quite introductory, but the notes (below) may still be helpful. These notes were on a handout at the talk, as usual I didn’t use slides.
Unfortunately I didn’t get an audio recording of this talk, so no transcript either.
About 30 people [...]

Where: SLUUG (though my talk is not listed on the site yet)
When: October 10th, meeting starts at 6:30 PM
I’ll introduce distributed source control tools:

A short tour of the basic use of git, bzr, and hg (Mercurial)
Thoughts on why you’d want to use a distributed source control tool at all, vs. a centralized system like SVN [...]