TEK·X
18 - 21 May 2010
at Sheraton Gateway Suites O'Hare Hotel, Rosemont, IL
Talk comments
Good overview. I wasn't aware of the Selenium PHPUnit extension. I'll definitely make some use of that.
This was a nice, technology agnostic overview of do's and don'ts of RIA development. Personally, I would have liked to start with the "top 10 don'ts", which would set the stage better for _why_ the top 10 "do's" are such good practices.
Being arrogant is funny, to a point. This talk went way past that point.
Disagreed with many technical points (statics are not hard to test, DI sucks, abstractions sucks, AOP (the mother of all abstractions) solves many of those problems, etc).
Three thumbs up b/c two thumbs up goes too far. I'd give it a 2.6 if possible.
Pace was quite fast, and so many things to cover. While the information was very, very good, I think it would have been good to narrow the selection a bit in order to slow the pace and cover really just the highlights users need. Perhaps even a quick survey at the beginning, asking which 5 of 10 topics the attendees want to see. :)
Very nice overview of the core features of version control systems, and how distributed and centralized differ -- and how they can be similar and/or complement each other.
My only comment is that perhaps just a brief discussion of where the distributed model fits well would be in order (open source projects, distributed teams, etc.). Overall, very well done.
Because something is a trend doesn't make it the right tool for the job. The biggest trend of all time: a hammer. Great discussion.
Nice overview. Enjoyed hearing about other languages and JVM as platform.
Matthew has given a good overview of trends and stats, but he needs to touch base and get some facts straight.
While my first reaction was laughing at the use of art of a dude reaching for an 'apple' this was one hell of a keynote. It was both entertaining and informative, and really made you look at your own processes and development style to see how you could simplify everything. It was exactly the kind of talk that does a great job opening a conference such as this.
Interesting big picture look at upcoming trends, but I felt that several of these "trends" were a bit dated. For example, cloud computing has been a "trend" for years.