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

Talk comments

Steven Hansen at 00:20 on 14 Jul 2017

In this presentation we'll start with a conversation around why we should care about Alexa. What reason would I have as a developer or business to care about the Alexa platform.

on Alexa, my new best friend: Introduction to building Alexa skills using a FSM

Sean Dague at 21:33 on 13 Jul 2017

I really appreciated a talk showing a hard thing that was attempted, even though it turned out to fail in the end. Sharing the learning along the way was great.

on Using Open CV to solve a real world problem

Joshua Marsh at 17:02 on 13 Jul 2017

Great talk. Learned a lot about the internet archive. It was so much more than I realized.

on Internet Archive: Universal Access. Open APIs.

Katie Barlow at 14:37 on 13 Jul 2017

Alex talked about QA/Dev relationships while sharing personal examples of improving work around him.

on TestOps is Dead; Long live TestOps!

Katie Barlow at 14:29 on 13 Jul 2017

Loved all the examples of how weaknesses can strengthen work and vice versa.

on The Edge Case of Insanity: How weaknesses can improve testing and how testing can improve weaknesses

Kincaid Savoie at 11:30 on 13 Jul 2017

This was my favorite talk of the day. I loved the examples and simple explanations for SOLID concepts.

I did have a little trouble keeping up with the pace of the presentation. There were a few times where I felt that I'd be able to understand the example much better given an extra 15 or 30 seconds to look at the code on the slide before moving on the the next.

on SOLID In Practice

Kincaid Savoie at 11:27 on 13 Jul 2017

Awesome talk. I really enjoyed that he went over the goal of Docker and ephemeral systems in general; it really helped when I was trying to understand the specifics of Docker.

on Intro to Docker and Ephemeral Systems

Kincaid Savoie at 11:18 on 13 Jul 2017

Great tour of relevant features without simply listing them off. It was little difficult to see the code and we never got to see it run, but that seemed to be due to technical difficulties.

on Staying efficeint and relevant with Modern C++

Kincaid Savoie at 11:16 on 13 Jul 2017

I really enjoyed his comments about game jams and what did and didn't work for his team. I also enjoyed the high-level overview of the Phaser API. Also, super cool slide deck!

I would have appreciated it if he had spent a bit more time showing the code for the example, it was a little difficult to see what was going on.

on Games, Jams and Phasers

David Stockton at 22:03 on 12 Jul 2017

This talk was quite solid (HA!) and gave examples close to ones I've seen in real code and then showed how it could be modified to follow the SOLID principles as well as explaining how or why each original code example violated SOLID and why that could be a problem when maintaining the software. Very well done.

on SOLID In Practice