Dallas TechFest 2010
30 Jul 2010 at University of Texas Dallas - Engineering and Computer Science South

Chander - I was disappointed that I missed your talk, I'm have some Azure/Silverlight development work coming up and would have gleaned a lot from your talk. I hope to catch it next time.

Thanks,

Thanks Dan and anonymous. I already regretted what I did and apologized to Caleb the next day. your suggestions definitely help. it's true being right is not an excuse for being rude. Caleb and I talked about it and he has blogged about it too. http://developingux.com/blog/2010/08/02/learning-in-public-and-being-heckled-at-the-dallas-tech-fest/ I am glad that he accepted my suggestion on Liskov and at the same time agree that it wasn't a big part of his talk. My intention was good and I didnt want anyone to take the wrong message about Liskov as Caleb has a huge fan following. However, I reacted wrongly and I apologize.

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 :).

very informative, but work is needed in the delivery. I would of liked to see more details pertaining to specific platform/architechture, .Net and SQL Server in my case.

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

This session was a high point, almost didn't go because of "cold fusion" in the title. perhaps a session on just jquery pertaining to any web platform.

i enjoyed the session. I would like to hear more on patters pertaining to VS development for Windows and Web.

May want to explain lazy loading as I was the only person who was unfamiliar with the concept. :) Otherwise very well done, fast paced, energetic, funny, interesting.

Dear gutsy ANONYMOUS - for anyone interested - I do in fact give full credit for all of my images used in my talk - they have always been in that deck, the last three slides are all image credits. http://www.slideshare.net/calebjenkins/10-practices-that-every-developer-needs-to-start-right-now

Also - I've posted my thoughts and what I learned from this day on my blog. http://developingux.com/blog/2010/08/02/learning-in-public-and-being-heckled-at-the-dallas-tech-fest/

While it's never fun being heckled - we've made up and their are no hurt feelings. Thanks to every one that came to my talk!
(why are rating fields required - I'd rather not rate my own talk! :/ oh well)

i liked the way he combined principles, patterns and performance in his talk and how he went from a beginners to best practices level.