PDXSLUG - 9/14 - O'Data, Where Art Thou?
Last week at the Portland Silverlight User Group we had our monthly meeting. Unfortunately the speaker we had lined up fell through and was not able to make it, so I was given the opportunity to fill in. As a side note to other user group leaders out there, make sure you never cancel a meeting. Here's some basic rules that I try to follow in recovering from these situations.
- Invite solid speakers in the first place
- Try to find a backup speaker
- Consider yourself as a backup speaker
- Try again to find a backup speaker
- Consider a working session (hackathon)
- Never cancel a meeting
The original speaker was going to cover WCF Data Services and OData. Not wanting to disappoint the expectations of the audience I decided to continue with that same topic. Let me just say that I had a blast preparing and giving this presentation. I've uploaded the slides and demos to my blog and they can be downloaded here.
