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

This guy seemed to know Ruby pretty well. However, the actual presentation had too many technical issues and a bit too many tangential divergences. I wonder if he really was actually prepared for this.

This was decent. The presenter was well-prepared and professional. However, I wanted a bit more "meat" about actual testing.

I agree with the previous comment. The first 15+ minutes of the presentation consisted of the presenter just trying to get his environment set up. It was also very obvious he was not well-prepared at all.

Thanks all for the kind comments, and for taking the time to watch my presentation. Slides available at the link above.

Thanks all for your kind comments, and for taking the time to watch my presentation. Slides available at the link above.

Thank you for a wonderful presentation. I was a little disappointed that the deadbolt wouldnt work, but the blender more than made up for it.

An ideal application for using Node.js, because it is event driven. You aren't trying to cram some awkward process flow into an event driven system but rather, processing events with an event engine, as it should be.

Very nice to hear the breakdown of the different wireless options.

One way that the session could have been better is by having a slide deck with code snippets rather than showing the actual code. If there are questions that are not answered in the slide deck then you can view it in the code. It seemed like Dave was trying to run this more as a open discussion rather than presentation.

I ordered an Arduino UNO during this presentation from Amazon. It arrived the next day.

I knew that Arduino was growing, but had no idea how far it had come in the last couple years. There are now boards available at every price point and modules that will do anything.

Very excited to start hacking now.

I have a little bit of mixed feelings about this. Normally I would be very upset about a presentation that essentially pitched a product. I avoid Intel sponsored presentations at larger conferences because I know that is exactly what they are. However, I have a couple ideas that I have been wanting to implement for a while now, and this may very well be the key to making them a reality.

What I need is basic wireless connectivity with a bit of logic and that is exactly what you are providing. I cannot wait for general availability and will likely be contributing to your kickstarter project.

I enjoyed the talk though I was hoping for a little more depth, I have been fairly engrossed in this for several years now so much of it was review for me.

Still I have been daunted by the prospect of writing my own Lucene code, instead have worked with SOLR and now Elastic Search. Your examples however will likely serve to change that. Very clear, concise and reachable. I look forward to playing around with Lucene directly now.

P.S. You didnt mention Elastic Search. If you have not tried it yet you really should, it is much more accessible than SOLR, and works every bit as well.