Comments on: Murphy’s Law of Demos

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:02:00 +0000

That’s like going to the doctor or mechanic and your body or car won’t do that thing that’s been driving you crazy. I usually hit that when I’m trying to document a bug.

Never heard it given a name, what about performance anxiety

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:48:00 +0000

Must be common to many people in Oracle….what is the law for “not being able to reproduce a bug/error to show someone when you really need to” ?

By: PubSubHubbub: Cool, but Hard to Say | Oracle

PubSubHubbub: Cool, but Hard to Say | Oracle — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:31:13 +0000

[...] few months ago, Connect was plagued by performance issues; it was falling over every day at 0200 Pacific time. Not ideal, since [...]

By: Joonas Linkola

Joonas Linkola — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:39:00 +0000

I love Windows Update's “Restarting your computer is required” popup – the only choices are “restart now” and “restart later”, with the latter scheduling the popup to reappear. Sat through a presentation a while ago (an internal one, luckily) where the guest speaker's slides on the conference room's computer were constantly interrupted by this message.

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:59:51 +0000

Yeah, sorry about the performance issues. I think R&A have sorted those by now. That login redirects to RSS issue is a tough one to solve. There's another guy hitting it in AU, but we can't reproduce it. Seems to be account/cache specific.

Since I only run OWC from a VM, I'm always quick to quit and shut it down to quiet my MB's fan, but I have seen that happen a few times. Funny stuff.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:38:06 +0000

Good post Jake. I had a few hairy moments last week, when I did my Connect demo e.g. when I logged in, it took me to an RSS page, and also when I tried to post some media.

I quite like the idea of “while we wait, are there any questions?”. I must use this in future sessions.

P.S. another common thing that happens is that after the demo, the presenter forgets to turn off the webconf, and any stray attendees are able to see where he/she is surfing on the web!!!

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:05:49 +0000

Nice, I may try that the next time. On the phone, it's a bit tougher though.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:05:23 +0000

Hahaha, yes those are all good ones too. The projector one is a killer. My odyssey from last year was one of those; good old DVI-VGA connector required, another pitfall of the Mac user.

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By: chet

chet — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:50:33 +0000

Bonus points if you actually tap dance. (I'm gonna have to learn)

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:39:09 +0000

Or the presenter spends 25 mins trying to get the laptop to “recognize” the projector, doing a little Irish jig on the Fn+F8 key. Then there's the audible incoming cell phone call during the critical moment in the PPT. Or the embarassing list of bookmarks on the Firefox toolbar on display….:)