Here's my ETech schedule for today.
8:30am Monday, 03/03/2008
Storyboarding for Nonfiction
Tutorial Marina Ballroom D
Kathy Sierra (Creating Passionate Users)
Can a PowerPoint business presentation be riveting? Can a tech manual be a page-turner? In this workshop, you'll map your presentation, nonfiction book, or even a user guide into a compelling three-act story template.
1:30pm Monday, 03/03/2008
Debugging Hacks: What They Never Taught You About Solving Hard Bugs
Tutorial Marina Ballroom D
Marc Hedlund (Wesabe)
If you're working on anything at all interesting, sooner or later you'll hit a bug that will drive you mad trying to fix it. This workshop will give you a set of tools and practices for finding, reproducing, fixing, and not regressing bugs that "println" won't pinpoint.
7:00pm Monday, 03/03/2008
AppNite Live Demo Contest
Event Marina Ballroom E
AppNite features 10 awesome developers doing 5-min App demos, with prizes for the best apps, as chosen by the audience.
8:00pm Monday, 03/03/2008
The O'Reilly Radar
Keynote Marina Ballroom E
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Tim shares his views on the technology's latest trends.
8:30pm Monday, 03/03/2008
Ignite ETech
Event Marina Ballroom E
If you had 5 minutes on stage what would you say? Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We’re going to find out when we Ignite ETech.
9:30pm Monday, 03/03/2008
Monday Night Werewolf
Event Mission Hills
Werewolf is a game of paranoia and group behavior and a fun way to get to know your fellow conference-goers.