While I'm recovering from surgery, I've been thinking about what makes a technology poster worth putting up on your wall?
As I walked around TechEd last week, there was no shortage of posters available for all sorts of technologies. Some were mostly diagrams without many words, while others were almost entirely verbal. Even among the SQL Server vendors and at the Microsoft SQL Server pavilion you could find several different posters. Quest Software (my employer) had two posters out - one with a quick description of all of the DMVs in SQL Server 2005/2008 and with a description and syntax for all of the system stored procedures.
My main criterion in deciding whether to put up a poster is whether it offers a quick look-up on information that I'd otherwise have to spend a long time thumbing through manuals (either physically or electronically) to find the information I need. So what's your main priorities in a) whether you even keep a poster, and b) whether you put one up on the wall? What are some topics worth putting onto posters that you've always wanted to see in print?
Many thanks! I look forward to your feedback,
-Kev
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If the poster is larger than A3, provided it's pretty, I'll roll it or fold it and file it somewhere. Years later it could be interesting or funny to look at. So size is the number one decider. Even A3 is a bit big, but if it has a diagram that is a useful overview - e.g. the parts of SQL 2008 or the "BI Burger" - then I might put it on a precious bit of wall-space. If it's a reference with lots of words then it really has to be something I can hold in my hands. Is that still a "poster"? Whatever, that's the kind of thing I prefer to get at shows and with magazines.
