OpenWest 2016
13 - 16 Jul 2016 at South Towne Expo Center

Notable
* Perfect pacing
* Didn't get buried in details (Ex: Highlighted Moo/Moose, but explicitly avoided code for that)
* As a non-Paleolithic Perl dev: I've seen a shorter version of the talk online and *still* I learned something new
* Took questions during talk, but kept them from becoming long digressions.

Didn't notice anything that needed improvement or distracted from this talk, but I'm not 100% target audience. Still - great talk!

Loved:
* So much information!
* Useful explanation of historical and practical context
* Demonstrative images of caching at work
* Highlighting useful tools for Web caching
* Simple enough words that I understood most of it!

Distracted by
* code samples were washed out by room lighting, so couldn't read them (but code was walked through, so it wasn't a major issue)

Liked
* Good coverage of Elixir language features & philosophy
* Good coverage of Phoenix framework features and capabilities
Distracted by
* High meme density - but others in the audience enjoyed it, so that may just be personal preference

Overall it got me wanting to play more with Elixir and explore Phoenix, so even with many memes I enjoyed the talk.

Mike gave a good presentation about logical fallacies and had many good examples. It was unfortunate that the presentation was hard to hear due to layout of the exhibit hall; the videos and speaker were hard to hear, but that wasn't Mike's fault. The videos gave good examples of some of the fallacies. I would have liked to have some relation to logical fallacies commonly seen by technologists, such as push back for increased security or pushing for management support. Overall the presentation was good and the presenter demonstrated great experience with the subject.

John's presentation introduced a very interesting perspective on loops. While I probably won't completely do away with some loops, I will consider alternatives for cleaner and easier to read code. I like the PHP examples since I am a PHP dev. I liked the speed of the presentation and the thorough explanation of what alternatives are available. Overall a good presentation that actually made me consider my current coding architecture.

Samantha delivered her presentation very while. I have attended some previous talks by her and enjoy the technical details she presents. The code examples made good points and demonstrated the principles. I feel I learned good information about asynchronous programming and the discussion about the future of PHP was great.

Great enthusiasm and discussion about current topics related to very pertinent technical issues we are dealing with today. Excellent keynote.

Notwithstanding the technical glitches, this was a good introduction, even for someone like me who was completely unfamiliar with Rogue-like games. The printout cheat sheet was thoughtful and useful, and the presenter was very well-spoken.

I'm your prime target audience. I started programming perl in 2000. The company I worked for used NO lexical variables in their perl scripts (no OO or encapsulation at all--any variables might be global.) I quit that company in 2005 to program in Java, C, C++ and old Perl. Last year I realized my perl skills were frozen. Thanks for the presentation.

Where are your slides?

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