CoderFaire Nashville '12
25 - 26 Aug 2012 at Nashville School of Law

The talk was about cloud technology, and while the speaking part of the presentation was good, we didn't see hardly anything about working with the cloud. The network was overloaded, but there should have been offline stuff to fill the void.

Sorry that you felt that way. I believe that the description of the talk made it clear that I would be speaking about the technology and processes of Digital Reasoning.

I guess I'm still not totally convinced precompilers are worth the added complexity, but Kevin made the case as well as I've ever seen it made.

There slides were pretty, the presentation seemed really well rehearsed, the talk had a good pace, the information content was useful.

The "contest" at the end was an extra gimmick that I think the talk didn't really need. (Also, the question was too easy!)

One of the slides in this talk was six paragraphs of marketing material about a product offered by the presenter's company. The last thing I want to see!

Unfortunately, I can't say that I took much away from this session. Coming from a workplace that does not do much testing, I was hoping to gain some perspective that I could share with my colleagues. This session didn't provide that. The material was not bad. Nor was the presenter's knowledge of the topic. However, the single example used for discussion was limiting. There were many long pauses where the audience was being "quizzed" for simple answers. That time could have been better spent digging into the topic of testing and applying it to other scenarios, but instead the presentation was forcibly cut short. Thinking back, did we even see an example of a test? Or just bad code versus good code?

good overview of where big data is today and how to use the cloud. wanted to see the demo, but the inernet connection was relly bad, so that kind of killed it

Content of the presentation was great, and the lack of internet access aside, learning how to use the cloud for analyzing big data was pretty cool.

Excellent. An enjoyable talk that led to provocative Q&A and an intelligent discussion at the end.

Informative, entertaining, thorough.
I learned alot and enjoyed the whole presentation. Thank you!

I have to agree with the anonymous comment. With no dedicated Wifi for the speakers, I was unable to show about 25% of my presentation, and I had to scramble to try to fill in the remaining time. With the topic being about cloud services, with a demo, I had no offline alternative. It was very disappointing.