Northeast PHP 2012
11 - 12 Aug 2012 at Northeast PHP Boston

I think the speaker tried to thread the needle a bit by being both into and going deeper - I would have preferred he "pick" one direction and dive deeper. That said I did enjoy this talk and got the sense that he very much knew this space well. Tx!

Hi - I've read through the comments and I'm not sure that I agree regarding the self-promotional criticisms - what else is he supposed to talk about.

I did like the idea that NASA is trying to introduce a loosely unified approach to technology that has flexibility.

PHP? Not sure if he was the right speaker to keynote as he felt a little broad, as did for that matter the closing speaker.

Both of the talks that I went to presented by Mike were very useful and of the two (the mobile conversion being the other) I took the most away from this one that I can apply in my present job.

Good talk. I'm still leery of putting caching meta tags inside my code, but for certain situations this provides a useful solution.

Awesome talk, thoroughly enjoyed this and pulled enough nuggets out of this one to make the conference worth the time!

I tend to agree with many of the other comments, it seemed like there was too much exposition and a little too much self promotion. I also felt that there was a little lack of organization and flow in the talk. On the other hand I did write down quite a few things that I will share with my son who is just getting interested in space :).

VERY GOOD speaker. Ran a little long I could see the whole audience getting restless but inspiring and knowledgeable. Spent a lot of time making fun of websites that had no mobile support or presentation, which was hilarious. Very passionate, and emphasized USER EXPERIENCE over all else. Gave me a lot of great ideas.

I liked the MVC concepts presented, but I am far from sold on Knockout JS. At the beginning of the presentation, he referred to inheriting "spaghetti mess" code, but the code generated by KnockoutJS intermingled js, html and various stuff and was not very clean. The majority of frameworks like this seem to emphasize ease of use and speed to deploy, but the code is frequently not that readable. Sorry, personal biases coming in. Good talk, overall.

Spent too much time on specific examples of testing. From the number of slides he skipped through to get to the end, he had enough for like THREE HOURS not 45 minutes. Smart guy, talked down to us a bit, trying to shame people into doing testing. Overall a good talk.