Talk comments

Glen Mailer at 17:39 on 4 Oct 2014

I agreed with the general theme of the talk, but felt that the level of detail on how to write UML was distracting from the overall theme of the talk - especially as Harrie went on to say much of it he doesn't use.

I loved the Lego stopmotion example, and would have liked to see more hand-drawn diagrams in the second half of the talk.

A bit more discussion of diagramming the system architecture vs class-level code architecture would have been nice too.

Anonymous at 17:38 on 4 Oct 2014

More information on more complex algorithms and will be perfect!

Chris Armitage at 17:24 on 4 Oct 2014

Last talk of the day, but the energy was kept high and the audience kept engaged. The new concepts offered were certainly interesting, but it would have benefited greatly from some actual code examples.

I'd like to see how this develops over the coming months.

Chris Armitage at 17:20 on 4 Oct 2014

Standing-room only shows it's a popular topic. The "Practical" in the topic may have been a bit misleading: not so much "here are technical examples" but "here how to go about it in a sensible, business orientated way". Great if you need to sell management on a refactoring project.

It did get a little heavy going towards the end, but I'm putting that partly down to the lack of ventilation in that room. Stuffy rooms post-lunch are not a good idea.

Rick Kuipers at 17:06 on 4 Oct 2014

Interesting take on design patterns, it's definitely an eye opener and I will be approaching design patterns differently after this. Still a little hard to grasp.

David Goodwin at 17:04 on 4 Oct 2014

Great talk about a subject I'd previously not even encountered. Some really cool ideas. The idea of using a chat system (something we use everyday) to make the kind of changes that can be done seems neat!

Off the wall, as expected. Very igor-centric. Igor has a real ability to make a serious point in a way that it sneaks up on you whilst being highly entertaining

Fantastic talk, funny, entertaining and lighthearted look at whitespace.