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title: "My talk went very well. You missed out :)"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/17/my-talk-went-very-well-you-missed-out.md"
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published: "2004-03-17T16:50:00"
updated: "2004-03-17T16:50:00"
tags: [".Net Original"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Wow. I'm all energized about the talk I just finished at the Visual C# user group. The talk was divided in two: First part was regular expressions. It went great! I was so nervious at first, but when I actually stepped…"
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# My talk went very well. You missed out :)

By Roy Osherove March 17, 2004 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 17, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

Wow. I'm all energized about the talk I just finished at the Visual C# user group.

The talk was divided in two:

First part was regular expressions. It went great!

I was so nervious at first, but when I actually stepped up and started talking, everything sort of “flowed”.

When I demoed how I'm parsing a log file and turning it into XML and then search on it, There was even some clapping. Imagine that :)

The second part was about plugins, and it went pretty well too. A bit less excitement because this is a harder subject, but over all people seemed to get the idea and responded well to the code examples.

A few glitches:

- The lecture started almost 20 late
- There were some technical problems connecting my laptop to the projector

Hopefully these were small enough not to cloud the overall lecture quality.

I did get a few suggestions:

- With the Regex lecture, start out with a demo of parsing the log file and then dive into the rest of the material, instead of doing the demo in the end. What do you think?
- The plugin lecture went too deep. THe part about passing EditorContext to the plugin was a bit too much to handle.  What do you think?

If you were in the lecture I'd be happy if you provided me with feedback so that I can learn from past mistakes.

God I'm tired.

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- Mar 18, 2004

    ### [RegexLib's web service pays off big time.](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/18/regexlibs-web-service-pays-off-big-time.html)

- Mar 16, 2004

    ### [See me speak at IVCUG about Regex and .Net Plug-ins](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/16/see-me-speak-at-ivcug-about-regex-and-net-plug-ins.html)

- Mar 10, 2004

    ### [Mortal Sin: Translating technical terms](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/10/mortal-sin-translating-technical-terms.html)


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