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Live Streaming Lessons Learned

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One thing we learned from lessons learned is that we don’t learn from lessons learned.

Somebody, alegedly

I don’t know where this quote comes from, a one-minute googling didn’t reveal it to me (but it isn’t mine, I’ve read it somewhere for sure).

Anyway, a month ago I started live streaming. This year with grand total of zero live conference sessions delivered must have been a contributing factor. I believe I miss speaking. So I decided to give it a try.

Now, almost exactly a month later, with five total streams delivered, four of which with actual relevant content (the first was merely an introduction), I know so much more about live streaming than when I started. Tell me I am wrong if you want, but I think sharing my lessons learned is a good idea. Maybe it motivates you to start streaming. Maybe it helps you start. Maybe… you never know!

So, this blog is a story of my journey, or adventure, with live streaming so far.

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Off-topic: A C# lesson learned about conditional operators

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If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand, that’s an unwritten rule-that-rules-them-all of programming. You absolutely love to apply syntactical stunts to impress your coworkers, especially if you do C# and they don’t, don’t you?

One of those stunts (at least from C/AL) perspective is a C-language type common feature known as conditional operator. It allows you to write this:

a = b ? c : d;

when you would normally (in C/AL, for example) get more eloquent:

if (b == true)
{
    a = c;
} else {
    a = d;
}

This (b == true) could have been replaced with just (b), but I put it there for clarity.

But! (There is always a “but”!)

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