DomCode 2015
14 Nov 2015 at HKU Utrechts Conservatorium

I've never passed on an opportunity to watch Igor rock the stage and I'm glad I did so again. One of those rare speakers that makes it look so easy to be on stage, an inspiration all the way.

I enjoyed the history lesson, but if I had to choose I might have liked a liiiiiitle more time on the logic gate to full adder bit because that just made a wooshing sound as it went by... which probably resulted in an idiotic question at the end. Sorry about that ;-)

Most of what I wanted to say has been said, so a short summary:

- Stefanie Schirmer is a very energetic speaker which I loved (although the audio tech chould have turned the volume a little lower)
- Some of the content was read from the laptop, that was distracting
- I could not follow all the steps, I could have done with some more in-between steps.

3 thumbs up, but certainly a candidate for more when the talk is more polished.

I enjoyed the start, but found myself expecting a more in-depth view right until the end of the talk. Some examples showing the difficulty in solving a certain problem with and witout a graph database might help here.

(and I also noticed the total imbalance between use of the word "left" versus "right" ;-) )

Controversial and intriguing!

I was as impressed with the delivery (no slides) as the content of this keynote. Pieter Hintjens absolutely makes you think, and points out that many things we do come from a mindset that is based on nothing but assumptions (of the ego).

I do have to add that the points/rules delivered as absolutes in the talk where later nuanced in a personal conversation, but that does not detract anything from the talk.

Though this talk was mainly about ruby, the principles that were discussed are applicable to every language / framework.

Nice narrative and to the point code examples.

Really enjoyed the talk and even more the chat I had with the speaker afterwards. I was skeptical on some of the points, but the chat afterwards completely changed my mind and made me see things I can change and how it all works.

Very nice well rounded off talk. Both speakers were very good on stage, I just feel Remco needs to take a bit more care in speaking clearly, some bits were hard to understand.

The subject was very well explained and I liked the level of detail.

Absolutely loved this talk! I have always enjoyed watching Igor make me feel dumb on stage, but this talk brought in a bit more of the "human aspect" then previous ones. The insights into the connections between subjects was absolutely brilliant and the history gave me amazing insights into what we do as developers.

Igor was especially sharp on stage, he looked really comfortable up there and that shined through the story he was telling. Thank you for sharing and thank you for the openness and honesty you brought to the stage.

Absolutely loved the energy on stage. The talk was very enlightening but i felt there could have been a few more connections here and there to more practical applications. It is refreshing to see "out of the curve" talks like this, but as I'm not very familiar with the topic i did get very lost in a few parts.

I think a bit more rehearsing and refining would get this talk to a sweet spot, but i could feel some parts were very scripted and theoretical readings from the notes. I much rather see a simplified understanding of the subject then having the textbook recited.

Stef speaking was a pleasure to watch due to the energy and excitement about the subject, great speaker.

Amazing speaker, amazing talk, tons of fun!