So I survived my first presentation at SoCal Code Camp. I was definitely nervous starting a couple hours before my talk started. My hands started sweating, and I was regretting the big lunch at Which Wich. I settled down a little once I was actually at the podium, but started to freak out again when I realized I was half way through my before I was 15 minutes into the talk! Thankfully there were people with questions, and I was able to extend things a bit.
I did end up finishing my planned material about 15 minutes early, but I had another demo that I had been working on which I showed as well. This was a socket.io chat / mouse sharing demo which I cobbled together when I was first learning about socket.io myself. People seemed to really like being able to go from my contrived examples, to something semi-functional which members of the audience were able to actually interact with real-time. In the future, I will definitely add some more interactive examples and probable spend more time going over what you can do with node and socket.io instead of the whys.
Big thanks to everyone who encouraged me to talk! If anyone is even remotely interested in talking on a subject at a code camp or other event, I would highly recommend that they take the plunge and just go for it! The support and feedback you get from participants is amazing.
The Code
The code for the socket.io demos is available on GitHub now. I’ll move the relevant bits of the chat / mouse interaction app over soon.
https://github.com/tstrimple/codecampdemo