OpenWest Conference 2017
12 - 15 Jul 2017 at South Towne Expo Center

Critical information delivered on an often-overlooked topic -- with plenty of actionable advice -- in an entertaining way.

Very interesting! I learned more than I thought I would.

Slides at
https://www.slideshare.net/DainaPettit/perl-optimization-tidbits-77972152

The talk is very informative. It covered the material described in the title. It also was and excellent source of tips on Git usage beyond the commands that are usually described. The slides are up on slide share. Notes or more description would help when revisiting the slides, particular for material that was mentioned but not described or demonstrated.

Thank you for the feedback, everyone! I really appreciate the it!

I added a link to the slides at the top of this page. Be forewarned: there are nearly 600 slides!

Does anyone know if OpenWest will provide some way to obtain the videos of the presentation?

Revision :

As a mid level engineer this was useful. It could be presented in half the time, and in a more positive and action oriented tone. I would be interested in another talk from you on "learning from developers above and below your own experience level" or, "how to seem young as you gain experience in software development". Or a combination of the two. Something with a few more action points and take-aways *throughout* the talk.

It was a good talk and I got some good perspective from it, like how experience can come across in attitudes in good and bad situations, detecting bogus company projections, how to interpret tempered enthusiasm for new languages and features, and such. That's helpful.

As a kid level engineer this was useful. It could be presented in half the time, and in a more positive tone. It's be interested in another talk from you on "learning from developers above and below your own experience level" or something along those lines. Or, "how to seem young as you gain experience in software development". Or a combination of the two. Something with a few more action points and take-aways *throughout* the talk.

Still, it was a good talk and I got some good perspective from it, on how experience can come across in good and bad situations. How to interpret tempered enthusiasm and such. That's helpful.

Thank you, John! This was a great session and I know it will be useful in my work.

I'd love to augment the notes that I took with the slides you used. I got your disclaimer in class that we shouldn't copy and paste code because often you showed how to do something independently of using a JWT library, but assuming we've got that message and use a good JWT library, do you think you could make your slides available? They had some great examples of a few things that I didn't have time to write down.

Resources from the workshop are available at http://unnovative.net. Most importantly are the links to the excellent OpenSSH WikiBook and stribika's guide to hardening OpenSSH.

I would be very grateful for any comments or suggestions you could share with me.
Thank you for attending.

@John Anderson: Thank you for your attendance and for taking the time to write up so many thoughtful suggestions. You are very encouraging and your advice will help me do better next time.