Voice fade: When I was teaching classes (8 hours/day x 5
days in a row), I would ask the venue staff to bring me
a pitch of water with NO ICE at the start of each day,
and a lemon. (Usually I'd have to send back two or three
pitchers with ice before they got the idea). Squeeze the
lemon into the water, and sip through the day. I usually
went through 2-3 pitchers per day.
In addition to keeping your voice going, this has the
benefit of reminding you to give the students bathroom
breaks.
Nice one Mike! Thanks.
On voice fades:
I used to teach computers in the army, so I was talking
12 hours a day. Things which helped me out:
- Practice!! You will get used to it. The strain isn't
the vocal cords as much as it is on the lungs. Think of
it as exercise....
- Don't talk in a monotone. Being monotonic isn't only
very boring, but it is also more tiring for the voice.
- During breaks, take a few slow,deep breaths. It helps
your lungs just like stretching can help your shoulders
during long debugging sessions :)
There is an oracle provider using the OracleClient
namespace in the messageboard section of DAABv3.0 last
time I checked. I haven't found one using ODP.NET,
however.
The afforementioned guy was me, and I was also the one
to bring up the two questions you mentioned. I was just
about to go sifting through Google to find out the
answers when I figured you might already have, turns out
you saved me a bit of time. So thanks again! :-)
Oh, by the way, my site is currently down (looking for a
host). You can reach me at tomerg at bigmail dot co dot
il.
Mike,
I am glad you enjoy my post of DAAB. I spend some time
researching and making sure that I can write code that
will migrate from ADO.NET 1.x to ADO 2.x model.
Thanks for mentioning the blog :)
Maxim
[www.ipattern.com do you?]
Voice: check www.vocalcoach.com for the
"Complete Breathing" and
"Complete Warmup" CDs.
If someone wants to write an ODP Helper, I'll be glad to
include it in the 3.1 release. I don't have the
resources at the moment to mess with it myself. If you
need help wirting a helper, I'm currently working on a
HOWTO for this. It probably won't make it into the next
3.1 beta, but you can contact me directly at
cjbreisch@yahoo.com if you have any questions. Looking
at the code for the other helpers will probably tell you
everything you need to know, though.
Thanks for mentioning this and the beta on your blog!