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Due to my schedule and my forgetfulness, I must beg forgiveness from two of you out there who read my blog and have been waiting for the Part II. I have half-written this post and totally forgotten about it. 

This is the second part of the post about BarCamp Mandalay 2013. I had booked the 11:00 am to 12:00 pm schedule to talk about 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

The session before me was the session about speaking good English, a lecture given by an English lecturer from Mandalay University. I arrived early and joined the previous session, which was very popular that they had to add another row of chairs just to fit everyone. Once it was over, it was my turn.

I started by writing the title of the session “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Steven Covey. I did a brief explanation about what I was gonna talk about and there it goes.

Either by contradicting myself or following the traditions of BarCamp, I didn’t plan ahead well enough to fit all of the habits well enough into the 45 minutes. Typical!

If having to add in yet another row of chairs for the audience is a sign, I must say it was a well-received presentation.

Unfortunately, since I didn’t prepare any materials for this presentation, I do not have any artifacts to share except to send you in the right direction if you ever wanted to read the books.

Originial 7 habits of Highly Effective People on BookDepository | Amazon

The teenager version by Sean Covey: BookDepository | Amazon

There is also a Burmese translation of the teenager version by Kyaw Win. The book is titled “ ႏွစ္ဆယ့္တစ္ရာစု သားေရႊဥ”. Find it at your local bookshops!

After attending and speaking at BarCamp Yangon for the first time ever, I couldn’t get enough of the energy, the people and the atmosphere of BarCamp. Having originally intended to go to Mandalay BarCamp even before I have come back from Singapore, it made it easier to decide to attend Mandalay BarCamp.

It was a cozier and much more tightly knitted BarCamp. I was speaking the same topic of Introduction to MVC and CakePHP. However, learning from the experience, I had went in to this session better prepared: with a bag of candies (rewards for those who participate in discussions or raise questions) and the decision to change my plan and the presentation topic according to the audience who attended. I tried a less formal way of engaging the audience and spoke mainly in layman terms and thankfully, I reckon they have at least learnt something new by the end of the day.

I guess I learnt something new that day too: Never assume to know who your audience are, engage with them to really know who they are.

Anyway, for those of you who attended the session and wanted the slides, check it out in the post I made for BarCamp Yangon.

I presented at the BarCamp Yangon today, doing some introduction to MVC and CakePHP. It was a very very basic tutorial on getting started with MVC and CakePHP.

The slides are now uploaded. Check it out below.