It appears that my personal and private lives are crossing. I suppose it was inevitable, and some business associates made the connection long ago.

Or perhaps having thirteen chickens scratching around the side yard colors everything I write and say. (I'll have to be more aware of that. Kind of like being at a Toastmasters meeting and having some guy clink their glass every time you say "and...um.")

Or perhaps my personal and private lives were never separate. That's probably the best explanation, considering I work at home.

In this case, my personal/private lives have collaborated on the title of a presentation for the Evans Developer Relations Conference. In November, I breezily suggested a presentation for the conference, titled "Ten Expensive Things You Can do to Foul up Your Developer Program." The clever title would have been "Ten Expensive Things You Can do to Fowl up Your Developer Program" - fortunately, my "don't be cute" filter caught that one and grepped out "/fowl/foul/g." But I do wonder about the feathered part of my brain slipping in a reference.

All bird references aside, I'll be in San Jose March 15th and 16th, condensing twenty years of experience into ten points (in 45 minutes!). I've already identified fifteen topics I'd like to cover - so I'll need to trim.

What about you? You're probably a developer, or have worked with developer programs. If you were my co-presenter, what three points would you put on the slide?

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