Honesty when doing a demo
Geertjan Wielenga: If you're doing a session and you're doing a demo, do you avoid the areas that you know don't quite work the way they should, or do you talk about that very openly?
Ray Tsang: I think it's important to talk about things that don't work well. I always add in a caveat if something's not production-ready, for example, because we've got to make that clear.
I think it's very important to call all things out: saying what works and doesn't work. I try to do that as much as I can. I may say, "Don't use that for now." Say, for example, that we're talking about databases. If you have object-relational mapping, you have these complicated graphs of objects relating to each other. Is it right to always use those things? It depends on the use case. So rather than saying yes or no, when I get the time, I want to make sure I understand what the use case is and figure out if it's...
