Links 2026-05-14
Some links on speaking, presentations, and documentation …
- On Conference Speaking – Hynek Schlawack
I’ve seen quite a bit of the world thanks to being invited to speak at conferences. Since some people are under the impression that serial conference speakers possess some special talents, I’d like to demystify my process by walking you through my latest talk from start to finish.
- The Price of the Hallway Track – Hynek Schlawack
There are many good reasons to not go to every talk possible when attending conferences. However increasingly it became hip to boast with not going to talks at all – encouraging others to follow suit. As a speaker, that rubs me the wrong way and I’ll try to explain why.
- Advice on Conference Speaking – Neil Bowers
- Presentation tools – anarcat
- Advice for writing LaTeX documents – Diomidis Spinellis
If you’re writing a scientific book, a paper, or a thesis in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics or a related field, it pays to write it using LaTeX, especially if your work contains formulas, symbols, and heavy cross referencing.
- Über example.com und das Schreiben von technischer Dokumentation – Un*xe
viele Menschen, die sowas schreiben, scheinen nicht zu wissen, dass es genau hierfür reservierte $DINGE gibt
