TEK·X
18 - 21 May 2010 at Sheraton Gateway Suites O'Hare Hotel, Rosemont, IL

Not what i expecting, but kept my interest regardless

awesome overview with just enough to highlight each feature

great talk

Hey johncongdon - the talk was actually marked as a beginner talk in my write up. I am sorry if you were misled with the write up.

I was looking more for a development practice for a one man (small team) show.

This was more about how to hire more people, or make the people you have happy. This should have been labeled more of a management session than a developer session.

That's been my biggest complaint with any of the sessions. The speakers knew what they were talking about, however the synopsis that got me to attend the session were ambiguous.

Maybe there should be a breakdown of who should attend. (examples: developers, managers, front-end, back-end, etc...)

Also a level of experience expected for the topic.

The information presented was good. It was obviously biased towards flash, but that is understandable based on Ryan's employment. I noticed that highcharts wasn't mentioned and I assume that is because there wasn't a flash alternative.

Instead of so much back and forth in the various libraries, I would have preferred a more in depth look at real world examples, more data, how to drill down. "How to tell the story", instead of showing the tools to make it happen.

And as smaller piece of the talk, state here are some different libraries that you can look into later.

I walked away with a good understanding of what to do next. The only thing I would have liked more was concrete example from a..z.

Maybe that was outside the scope for this session, but I really want a grasp of here's exactly what you do to put code into production.

I already use replication and am familiar with the basics, so I was hoping for a little more. However, Ligaya did a great job with the information. She obviously knows the topic very well and I loved when someone said they wanted the technical details, she was able to give them, even if it was too much for the topic at hand.

The only thing I wish all the speakers would have done would be to put a "level" of person that should attend.
i.e. This session is for people that have [no|little|some|expert] experience with ...

Fantastic talk. I'd love to explore some specific tips and ideas to do from here on all my projects.

This was a useful one in covering the good and bad things to do. I found out that I was doing a bunch of the good stuff just by dumb luck. Of course, I'm doing some of the bad stuff too, so I guess I need to do some work..