Mdevcon
10 Mar 2012 at Tuschinski theatre, Appsterdam

It was just an amazing keynote! Gave me a lot of new tools and brought my debugging to a new level :)

I liked the minimal aspect of the slides during the presentation but that's kinda hard to remember everything only with it.
But that's why I take notes so that's actually not a problem for me.
Lot's of snippets in the slides, actually kinda cool for trying.

Great insights into the asynchronous mess that iCloud is. Given the complexity of the subject, I liked the clear code snippets very much.
It was also nice to briefly look at some alternatives to iCloud.

Talk was a bit messy and I think it was the first talk of this presenter.

Few pointers to the speaker:
1. Prepare your slides a bit more, and, if you never gave a talk before. reherse it and test during breaks if the beamer works on your laptop
2. A 10 minute introduction is way to long. This can be done in 2 minutes. If people want to know more, they will find you online
3. To long of an overview of the running app. Everything needed there was: "We created this app, and we tried to port it to android, how did we do it"

After ±20 minutes there was some decent content, about differences in UI, how does the Apple UI work (no physical buttons) vs the physical buttons on most Android phones. I liked that part, but again it could have been more clear-cut.

Worst part of the talk is where one of your own colleagues interrupted you for an error on the slides.
When this happens, all other slides become worse as well, again, test run it. specially if you say things about you and your team test run it with your team.

Don't get dishearted by the above comments, no it wasn't the best talk. But you were on that stage and they were in the audience. Practice makes perfect!

Had a good laugh, but the subject was too much common sense.

This should have been the opening speech. :)

Problem with a talk about iCloud is that it's not "simple" it never is :) The amount of information given in the small 50 minutes used was a lot. Therefor, a lot of text on slides and pretty big code examples. This is not a problem, it's not a tutorial, its a talk. Now that the slides are online everyone can re-watch the code examples and hopefully the mdevcon team will add audio to it as well.

Speaker itself was clear and repeated the questions form the audience which was awesome.

Nice talk. It gave me few new tools which I'll definitely would use.

And now for something completely different. I don't like the fact that people are scared of math and formulae.

Expected more than just the basics from this. Still enjoyable though.