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

Very informative, fun & entertaining at the same time.

Very nice slide!

Do you know how to run the touch command with Memcached?
Some time ago I read Memcached::get returns NULL in cases of not found items but I can't reproduce?

This was one of the best talks I have ever attended at any conference, and to have it as a closing keynote was a great idea! Humour mixed with great knowledge is always a great way to learn.

Clear, perfectly paced presentation by the excellent Ilia. My only criticism is the all-capital font used for code. A five star presentation that made me want to use the MemcacheD extension.

Thanks for the nice comments. I wanted to keep this session basic because there are many developers who need an introduction to the design portion of app development.UX is not only about being an designer. it is mostly about organizing content and structure.
I am sorry that I did not show all options. I am familiar with Omni Graffle and Axure, but have not dealt with many clients using them. It would have been fair to at least include some information and screen grabs.
As far as free prototyping software, I have not found any that offer the sketchy look, but there is http://quirktools.com/ where you can create unlimited sketchy wireframes for just $6.00. Hope that helps!

I've had the pleasure to hear Jared speak before, and this was yet another awesome performance. Joe Johnson's comment is dead on. Jared is a true master of his craft. It was a privilege to have him share his insight and gift with us yesterday.

This was the first time I really "got" the whole MVC concept, and so I am rating Kianosh and this talk high for that. He did enough of a good job of explaining the MVC and MVVM concepts and tying them to the demo that this newbie (me) could understand it. I'm giving four stars (instead of five) because of the quality of the font/colors on the slides and that I'd rather a speaker show pictures of his kids at the end of the talk rather than at the beginning.

I think that the subject matter was a good topic to have at the conference. I wish that the speaker had spent more time on the case studies, and less about the "context" of what IBM iSeries is, history, etc.

And this speaker did the worse job about giving out the free books of all the talks I went to. It's like he felt doing the book thing was taking away too much time from the care and stroking of his own speaking. He basically said "who wants this book", and handed it to the person in the front row who raised his hand.

Mike is an engaging speaker, and his topics are so informative, that the overall talk is a joy to attend. I would love to see him give the opening presentation to a conference, because I think he would do an excellent job at getting attendees pumped up for their first day.

I'm not a UX/UI person, and what I liked about this talk was that watching Jennifer work in the programs gave me a better feel for how someone in that role approaches their work. And I think that'll give me more insight in the future for how best to work with my colleagues that are in that job when we are trying to develop the best product we can.

I also really appreciate how democratic she was about choosing the winners of the books. Some of the other speakers just seemed to throw the books out to the first person who raised their arm up so that they could get it over with and get on with their talk. She was one of the fairest about it, even if dealing with the paper and bag cut into her speaking time.