[Catalyst] Anyone willing to demo Catalyst in Los Angeles?

[Matt S Trout]

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 08:24:34PM +0000, David Hodgkinson wrote:
> On 1 Feb 2006, at 22:39, Matt S Trout wrote:
> >http://shadowcatsystems.co.uk/static/london/catalyst.xul
> >
> >was what I presented last time, but you might be better off  
> >stealing half
> >a dozen slides from that for the end and running through one of the  
> >tutorials
> >or similar first - general reaction to my talk was that it was over- 
> >technical
> >and not newbie-friendly enough (at least for the audience I gave it  
> >to).
> 
> Nuh-uh.
> 
> It wasn't about being overly technical, it was that the talk was about
> what Catalyst is, rather than what it can do. The other talks  
> demonstrated
> how easy/smooth/pretty it is to do stuff with their toy.

That's the best explanation of where I could have done better I've heard so
far, many thanks (and if you or somebody else said it to me on the night
then I claim adrenalin-clouded thinking for not absorbing it :).

It genuinely didn't occur to me that having been shown all the available
capabilities and the care with which they'd been implemented that how
easy/smooth/pretty Catalyst is to work with wouldn't be bloody obvious
- it was to me within a couple hours of looking at it, sometime around
5.30.

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