OpenWest Conference 2013
2 - 4 May 2013 at Utah Valley University

Very helpful basics to getting WP up. The talk got a little side-tracked with GIT questions. I would recommend a future track of GIT and Versioning. But Patrick handled the disruption well, and was able to still get through his content discussion.

You're right. I could have had a different attitude and approach with the same basic content and it would have made it worthwhile.

My apologies.

Thanks for the feedback, guys--I did indeed have epic tech malfunction. My presentation laptop died minutes before the talk, so I was presenting from a spare. Trevor--the code is solidly tested at each commit step, but I demonstrated that very poorly. I definitely flailed around in git too much--my main laptop was all set to just "go openwest-003<TAB>" and be there, none of this pull/checkout/track nonsense.

But all that's just excuses at the end of the day. I did prepare well, but I didn't present well, and I'm sorry I left you guys feeling disappointed. My own takeaway from this talk will be to "can" my talks a little better so that I can present from a guest machine with less fiddling.

Thank you for coming, and thank you for commenting.

It really sucked that the projector was not working, but I think the speaker did the best job he could. I left the presentation with information about using KSS and automating my styleguide generation. That's all I needed!

Anything positive you suggested during your presentation was dwarfed by your conceited approach and inability to present it in constructive and useful way. Sorry bro, you failed.

Rasmus is always great.

I was concerned that he didn't test his code before the presentation. There were a lot of technical issues. He also had issues with font formatting making it difficult to read the terminal and the code he was showing off. It seemed like he was showing off Git more than Ruby.

@Trevor, I totally should have engaged the audience more. Hopefully my public speaking ability improves as I do this more. :-) Adomotic.com will be the home of my open source automation company. Right now it is pretty bare. I'm hammering out some details for node-zwave (folder structure, code, npm repo) and will be posting it within the next few days, but you can watch for my initial post here: https://github.com/adomotic/node-zwave

He indicated in his presentation that he gathered the information from presentations given by Rasmus Lerdorf. I thought it was a good presentation with definite security concerns to be aware of when developing in PHP.

The presentation was done very well. The technology he had to show off was cool.
He mentioned the website for the business he is starting is at http://www.adomotic.com. I'd be interested in looking into his open source project to see if there was a way I could use or contribute to his application.