10 Practices Every Developer Should Know

It was an entertaining session, but was very light on the content. Most of it could have been summed up in three slides work of info but was pulled out with long examples trying to relate to an audience that already understood most of the technical concepts. Credit to the speaker though for warding off the efforts of a heckler and take it all in stride.

Ultimately I just wanted more of the content and maybe a bit less of the presenter being comedic.

I, too, wish there had been more meat, but left happy about having attended. I would like to mention that I think Chander Dhall, a session presenter himself, interrupted and challenged Caleb in an unprofessional manner.

very good session, although ran a little too long. I would love to see the session again, and straight to the point(s).

Caleb and I have talked about it and he has blogged about it, too. There is no war going between us and we want to make this clear. SO, I am adding a note to support Caleb here http://developingux.com/blog/2010/08/02/learning-in-public-and-being-heckled-at-the-dallas-tech-fest. Please refrain from commenting about us. If all we did was to get the right knowledge out to the community, we need the support of the community, too. I also understand that my approach was a little unprofessional and hope to never repeat it. However, my intention was to get the right knowledge out to the community. Caleb has thousands of followers and my concern was if he propagates something wrong by mistake(we are all human) that could be taken literally. People sitting next to me can tell that I was laughing on all his jokes even after heckling him :).

Entertaining, for sure and I like the style of presentation. My company not very mature int the development area, and we're pretty small (85 employees, 4 IT persons....that handle all of IT, including telecom...that includes myself, the diretor.) So, many of the sessions, either attempted to be practical (and provided solutions way outside our scope) or were way too high level (I'm the only expert developer of the bunch, and I'm self-taught and probably violate 50% of the guidelines that Caleb covered...and that ain't gonna change anytime soon. :) I felt like his content was good, but I'd like to either see this in a workshop format, or in multiple sessions where he could spend more time on each area, rather than being rushed.

Oh, and I know he said not to, but I just have to say this, I love to see a good sparring match from time to time, if we can all shake hands and be friends afterward. :) In the end, as Chandler said, it's between them and none of my business.