ConFoo 2013
25 Feb - 1 Mar 2013
at Hilton Montreal Bonaventure
Talk comments
Great speaker. After the talk, I really see the value in using OpenStreetMap for my next mapping project. Excellent overview with valuable examples. You can tell that Derick stands behind the technology and wants it to succeed as well as the OpenStreetMap community. Now I'd like to start contributing to OpenStreeMaps myself.
I didn't know anything about Chef going into this talk. All I knew was that I was heading to a "Ruby" session that had something to do with infrastructure. Well, this turned out to be an excellent session for me as even though I am a developer I spend considerable amount of time on sysadmin tasks and Chef promises to make it all easier, faster and more reliable. Great overview and nice examples. I really feel like Chef could be a useful tool for me. Christian was great, full of enthusiasm.
Just like the CSI:Ruby Ruby session earlier in the morning, Therapeutic Refactoring was informative, entertaining and really enjoyable. Great tips on refactoring demonstrated through working with a really good example of really bad code. Katrina is a great speaker.
It was 8:30am, we were sleepy, holding onto our cups of coffee, somewhat zombified. However, Katrina jumped straight into the investigation, dropping us into the twisted whodunit that bug squashing really is. She showed us what wild quests our lines of code really hold, helped us see the humour in facing the errors of our ways and inspired us not to fear bad code but go out and save the world from it. We learned about techniques needed to make our way through the impenetrable darkness of obfuscated methods, surgeon-approved steps to amputate dead code and sure-fire tips on refactoring now to assure levelling up later. This was exactly what I needed to start another day at ConFoo. Thank you!
Excellent talk! Really enjoyed it. Packed with lots of humour too all delivered in deadpan (took me a few minutes to realize that). Now I'm off to implementing websockets! Thanks for the inspiration!
A brilliant speaker. Excellent presentation. Engaging and funny. Also an eye-opener when it comes to the subject. I'll be giving a lot more attention to HTTP Headers from now on.
There were plenty of useful tips and strategies given at the talk. I got a lot from it. However, at times it felt dry and a bit too in-depth for 45 minutes, during which many different technologies had to be covered.
Very informative session and well presented. Some difficulty with power point made it less smooth at the beginning but it was still an excellent talk.
One of my favorites at this conference. Looking forward to use ES in real life. Very good speaker.
I left this talk somewhat discouraged about the state of caching on the client side. This was certainly no fault of Stephan as he was merely the messenger. Caching is a bit of a mess where technologies are still in flux and where proper implementation isn't easy. The talk was informative and a good overview of how we got to the present day and what tools are available to us. A practical example that attempts to solve a caching problem or demonstrates how one could go from no consideration for caching to doing a good job would've made a welcome addition.