4Developers 2012
18 Apr 2012 at Concordia Design

Even if I'm not a JavaScript fan, I had a nice overview of the Sencha Touch API. A small running demo would have been a plus for a 5 stars rating ^^

Thanks Derick for the talk. I learnt some useful information about OSM and I think I will make it a try and use it instead of GoogleMaps.

I was expected to run a 45 minutes live demo but when I saw I couldn't have the hands free with the microphone, I had to fallback on my Symfony2 (consensual) presentation.

You can find a little more details about the Nginx project here (info from October, so slightly outdated) : http://www.slideshare.net/wimg/making-dynamic-sites-scale-like-static-sites

Well researched and presented. The topic though was a bit shifted - it was more on classes of NoSQL databases and where they excel, but focused on ~two main types and main implementations of that kind, and just skimmed through others. Even though, the talk gave a good understanding of differences between RDBMS and NoSQL databases, and different application of different NoSQLs.

Exactly what I expected: bullet points of key topics and details for each of those. Well presented, with real life examples.

Unfortunately I wasn't satisfied with this talk. It didn't contain enough theory to be theoretic, and not enough practical example to be a practical talk. We didn't get anything more details from real life than "NK.pl is using Hadoop for keeping logs". Too bad, because the topic is interesting and the speaker for sure had an in-depth knowledge of the implementation of Hadoop in nk.pl. Pig and Hive were merely noticed that they exist.

Great inspirational talk. I hope that it will be the last thing that will motivate me to do things that I had planned but never had enough energy to do them.

After seeing 'practical' in the title I was expecting to see a demo, to see the product in practice. Either way, learned about Symfony2 and it's nearest future, that's what I hoped for.