OpenWest 2014 talk comments

Richard Bateman at 20:24 on 9 May 2014

While I appreciated your talk, I felt it progressed a little bit slowly and didn't really cover any of the things I've really wanted to know about Go. Some of this is that it was an introductory talk, and some that we just didn't reach there. I kept hoping that we'd pass much more quickly over the details of typing and syntax, hitting just the highlights and leaving it for us to see the slides, and get to the examples of asynchronous programming and other real strengths that I have heard about the language.

I did appreciate that your talk was well organized and liked the way your slides could execute code. I would love to see the link to your slides posted here on joind.in so I could look over them -- I was a few minutes late and missed it if it was given out at the beginning of the presentation.

on Introduction to Go

Richard Bateman at 20:20 on 9 May 2014

While I enjoyed your talk, I found your comments and conversation before and after to be far more useful and interesting than much of the talk. I felt all in all that the presentation was heavy on narrative and opinions about various tools but light on actual information, details, and examples of the stack. It seemed more a talk about the business and project management aspects where I was expecting it to be about the development.

I saw this on other talks to, but in yours it stood out -- you obviously had the details I wanted, but I didn't feel like it came out in the presentation.

I would love to see a talk from you about the specifics of how you're using Postgres's JSON features, preferably with some code samples we could run ourselves.

on PoJAN Stack - Building a scalable SAAS Application

Richard Bateman at 20:16 on 9 May 2014

I enjoyed the presentation; there were some moments where it was a bit slow paced, as is common with introduction talks, but on the whole it was much better structured than the majority of the openwest talks I attended this year.

Thanks for the introduction to Ember!

on Introduction to Ember