This information in this talk was good, but the delivery left something to be desired. The overall attitude of the speaker seemed a bit bored at times, like just going through the motions; not very energizing or engaging. The speaking itself was a bit rough, with far too many "uh"s and "um"s for my particular taste. All that aside, I did learn quite a bit, and for that I'm appreciative.
Good pep talk, but it did have a bit too much of a "this is a pep talk" feel to it.
The way Jeff was able to show a simple end-to-end solution using Slim, Backbone, and Composer was quite impressive. His delivery was flawless and I felt that he delivers an excellent presentation. Thanks, Jeff!
This was an extremely helpful talk. The examples of using Slim and Backbone to create a RESTful web application were easy and clear enough to really understand what was happening. I think the only thing I would have liked to have seen was a little more about Composer, specifically the getcomposer website and more of a description of how it works (i.e. an example composer.json). I know these things, but I think it would have been useful for others, without adding too much added time to the talk.
I am very much looking forward to trying out Slim and, now, Backbone.js.
Can you follow this up with a macro framework talk?
Best part of the talk was iteratively describing how to add in caching and sharing it between servers. That's what really gave me the context of where Zookeeper fits in.