Behold the power of timing
So there I was, flying through my presentation and everything was great. Then the Chief Product Officer walked in. He must have known that I was about to demo some running code, because right then I went to show something off and it bombed…spectacularly. As it turns out, the night before I had muddied up a config file before packing up the source as sample code and I never reverted the config. So there I was, presenting in front of a packed room full of people, CPO in the corner and at least one blogger two rows in front of me and the code didn’t work.
Well…I knew it couldn’t go 100% perfectly. Oh well. Let this be a lesson to you, when you’re given an extra 30 minutes before your talk starts, make sure the demo works. 
