Vim for Vi Users
What every Vim user should know about Vim
Slides: PDF, OpenOffice
Regular Expressions Made Easy
No, that's not an oxymoron. They are quite easy if you think about things and graph them.
I should warn you that the slides alone are not enough to make you understand regular expressions. You need to hear the lecture.
Slides: PDF, OpenOffice
Related regular expression graphic software (tbd)
Taking Vim to the next level (Scale 2010)
How to go beyond the basic Vi command set and start using Vim as vim
Advanced Vim Syntax and Programming
For the advanced Vim user, a tutorial on how to create syntax coloring files and how to use the programming system to create macros
Slides: PDF, OpenOffice
How to create a code inspection system
Practical tools and techniques for creating a robust code inspection system. (Presented in 2002.)
Slides: PDF, OpenOffice
Support Files
Openoffice Writer – Beyond the simple report
How to use some of the more advanced features of Openoffice.
Slides: PDF, OpenOffice
Cleaning up and Mucking Out and Paranoid Programming
How to dig you through legacy code and how to keep things organized once you dig yourself out.
Slides: PDF, OpenOffice
Perl Reliability Workshop
How to make your Perl code better.
Slides: PDF, OpenOffice
Paranoid Programming (for TicketMaster)
Just because your paranoid, it doesn't mean the computer isn't out to get you. Here are some strategies for dealing with that.
Slides: PDF, OpenOffice
Linux in Early Education (2008)
This describes some of the tools and techniques used by myself to educate my daughter, Grace. Presented by Steve Oualline and Grace (age 4) at Scale 6x.
Slides: PDF, OpenOffice
Thinking outside the Box -- A Linux Presentation for grade school.
(2009) This lecture is designed to present Linux to elementary school children (and their teacher). It is supposed to be fun and to make you think a little.
Slides: PDF, OpenOffice
The State of the Linux Video Tools (2007)
A report on the current state of the tools for dealing with video in Linux.
Slides: PDF, OpenOffice
Open Source tools in a Heterogeneous Environment (1999)
How to install Open Source tools in a Unix environment with lots different systems and requirements..
Slides: PDF, Policy Paper
Date and Time -- The untold stories
For elementary school class room
What time is it? How do you know? What is the ultimate clock for the Earth. Why do clocks run clockwise? What happened on September 10, 1752? How do clocks and navigation relate? Why is longitude 0 at Greenwich England? What do railroads, cheap Americans, and time zones have to do with each other?
Slides (pdf): PDF
Slides (odt): ODP
Sundial Project: PDF
Note: The sundial project deliberately has only one number on it. Inevitably someone in the class room will ask "Which way do the numbers go?" I replay, "What are the possible answers?" (Clockwise and counter-clockwise.)