OpenWest 2015
6 - 9 May 2015
at Utah Valley University
Talk comments
Very knowledgeable, definitely gave me some things to think about (like non-SEO URLs... everything I know is a lie). The slides were great, just a very polished speaker/talk.
Very interesting. Good knowledge and use of the toolset. Also, great interactive demo.
Screens were hard to see. Dimmer lights? Better contrasting colors? Brighter projector? Something needed to be tweaked.
I kept up with your examples, but I had some knowledge of the topic already, so I can see how some might have gotten lost.
One suggestion, once you've covered your content, cut it off. Don't fill time just to fill it. Especially when you are the last class of the day. :)
The first 2/3 of the talk was trying to convince us that technical debt is bad. We know; that's why we're at the talk. The last bit was bullet points of ways to reduce technical debt but they were vague like "tools" or "unit testing" without going into *what* tools or *how* unit testing can help. There was just nothing to take away from this talk.
Great job, especially for pulling it off last minute. Good luck to your wife!
One suggestion might be to stick more to the topic posted.
I think you are mislabeling both the term microservice and monolith which makes the description of this presentation quite misleading. A label targeting integrations with 3rd party software would be more appropriate.
There was some useful info here but I didn't like the format. CYOA might work well for independent learning but not for speaking in front of a group. I think we missed several topics and that was really frustrating. I also didn't like the videos. The flow was really unnatural... there wasn't really a way to pause or talk through what was happening, instead we would watch the video and then AFTER that the speaker would recap what happened. Very hard to follow. And then just slapping functions up on the screen wasn't very helpful either. It would have been nicer to walk through writing one or two functions together and talk about how BASH scripting works rather than just showing us five pre-written ones. This presentation would have worked better as a website than a talk. Then I could have done the CYOA myself and at least cut-and-pasted the functions.
THAT SAID... I did learn about some new things that I will research further on my own. And the speaker was obviously well-prepared and knowledgable. The format just didn't work for me.
Hi! I'm Devin!
Fantastic presentation! Thank you for sharing with us 12 things to improve our presentations. I was able to get some great notes (using only my thumbs ;) that I will refer to often. I also appreciate that you taught by example. There was more class participation during your class than any other class I attended at the conference - I am impressed that you were able to get people to open up within the first few minutes of your presentation.
I'd like to get a copy of your presentation. I'll check back on this joind.in page every couple of days.
I hope to see you return to the conference!
Argument against exceptions was flimsy. Sources not substantiated. Solutions to the "problem" came across as more complex than the "problem."