Nodejsconf
9 - 11 Nov 2012 at Nodejsconf

very good talk, plenty of REAL life insights on the good and the bad of using node in your org.

To explain such a complex system in half an hour was impossible but the speaker did a good job overviewing all the components and hinting at the connections and inner working.

And well... there were servos moving with arduino FTW :)

A very good presentation, although it was about a paid-for product, it was delivered the right way: showing what you could do (and how) with azure and their node-azure-sdk.

Although very useful, In bigger conferences this talk maybe would have been in a separate track as a sponsored talk.

This workshop gave us enough knoledge to start programming nodejs. Thanks Golo.

More internals on how node.js run on Azure, some tips and some real-world examples would be appreciated.
The part on servicebus was totally out-off-topic.

Interesting strategies on how you can start using node.js if you're not working on a greenfield project.

Poor talk: it felt like being trolled on Twitter, but in real life for 30 minutes.
I understand that JavaScript is not the perfect language, nor is node.js the silver bullet to solve all the problems in this world, but this speaker tried to convince me that threaded programming is easier than callback based programming and that his very subjective views of JavaScript and node.js are the correct ones.

I would have loved to see some of the numbers that backed up his claims, but he just showed Angus Croll's (brilliant) 'if Hemingway wrote JavaScript' post examples (http://byfat.xxx/if-hemingway-wrote-javascript) without giving any credit.

Furthermore: showing pretty graphs of numbers that are just pulled out of your hat is just unprofessional (referring to how code complexity in JS apparently grows really fast).

The speaker tried to be controversial, but it was just a poor delivery on "I don't like JavaScript and this is why" over 30 minutes.

Good talk; lacks a bit of meat to be great.

Interesting idea but needs more work. Apparently the talk was about an integration shim written in a day; the possibilities were not exploited in depth.