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Foo Camp 2005: Sunday

On the final day of Foo Camp, I could only attend one session before heading back to SFO to catch my flight. The final sessions ended at lunch, but based on last year, less than half the crowd is still around by then. My flight left at 2pm which put me in RDU around 12am!
Opening […]

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Foo Camp 2005: Saturday

One word to describe Saturday: Wow. I’m getting so much more out of this year compared to last. Last year I attended sessions I thought were most applicable to my day job - this year I’m attending sessions that are most interesting to me personally. Apparently there is a difference. I mingled and had interesting […]

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Foo Camp 2005: Friday

I flew into SFO around 3:00pm. After grabbing a quick bite to eat and checking email, I picked up my rental car. 2.5 hours later, I arrived in Sebastopol. It was bumper to bumper traffic 90% of the way which made for some grueling driving. Expecting this, I burned a couple of audio book CDs […]

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Writing and Editing Technical Books preso posted

You can find it here. The folks at STC Carolina were gracious hosts and seemed to enjoy the presentation.
Postscript:
I got some nice feedback from Terry Smith (STC Carolina Programs Manager) about my presentation…
> —–Original Message—–
> From: Smith, Terry
> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 9:45 AM
> To: Robbie Allen
> Subject: STC Presentation
>
> Hi Robbie-
>
> Thank […]

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Windows XP Cookbook available

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