OpenWest 2015
6 - 9 May 2015
at Utah Valley University
Talk comments
Excellent presentation. Fun, entertaining, and educational. Easily one of my favorite presentation of the whole conference.
Well spoken with good examples. I liked the emphasis on data based decisions. Would have liked more talk on practical solutions beyond caching (perhaps not possible in the given time).
I was expecting a little more advanced discussion of angular, what mistakes they made and what they learned from them, suggestions and tips on best practices etc. Instead the talk was mostly going after abstract concepts of what angular js is capable of and what its not. I didn't come away having learned anything beyond what I learned in watching angulars 5 min intro to angular video.
Hi Steve,
I really wanted to get a chance to see this - but it conflicted with another talk. Any chance I could get a look at your current slides or is this pretty much the same:
http://www.stevemeyers.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Database-Optimization.pdf
Link to my slides http://dpashkevich.github.io/pres-enforcingstandards/
The slides can be downloaded at http://stormsherpa.com/blog/openwest-2015/
I love the passion of this project and appreciate the effort. Unfortunately, for myself, this topic is of relatively little concern.
I wish nothing but the best for this movement, but I'll focus on making other things in Open Source great while you focus on this stuff. Fair enough? :)
This has been the most interesting and relevant talk so far (in my opinion). Josh has a great stage presence and it was thoroughly enjoyable.
This is the kind of talk I would have loved to hear 10 years ago - and it reaffirms my own conclusions based on my career thus far. This presentation focused on the "hype" around development. The developers who are not interested in the hype may not have found as much value - but it's relevant nonetheless. Many of the developers on a team with "established" developers are going to be interested in the hype - you should be aware of their motivations.
As a team leader I'm constantly needing to push boundaries to address the white-hot technical talent recruitment. It's foolish to think this talk would not apply to everyone across all disciplines and every point in their career. This hype is the nature of this business.
As an unlearned attendant many of the topics were unfamiliar to me. My interest was piqued with tools discussed; but with a lack of workable examples I'm unfortunately still left in a place not knowing how to grasp the first rung of the latter.
I do feel motivated to investigate further into the FreeBSD world but with so many of the use-cases outside my wheelhouse I'm not sure where to start.
Really fun presentation. I really enjoyed this topic and the presenter did an excellent job of keeping it informative and engaging considering how deep the topic was.