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Meetup Reviews

Reviews from
MMO Game Architecture: Scalability & Performance on Wednesday Mar 28, 2012

Meetup Rating
5.0020

Attendees
54
This presentation blew my mind and Scott was fantastic.
— John
Very informative. Liked the technical overview.
— Luis Masaya
Great talk, turnout, facilities, and sponsors.
— Sam Cirka
I am not into gaming myself, but presentation on MMO was very good and Scott answered a lot of interesting questions.
— Tomas Cirip
I really enjoyed this presentation. The presenter was well spoken, well prepared, and had an excellent handle on his subject matter. Fantastic!
— Gord Harris
Excellent talk; the speaker was extremely knowledgeable and presented the information in a engaging, coherent, easy to follow manner. Thank you!
— bruce
would be great to get the slides deck.
— Behzad
Great presenter and a ton of valuable information about MMO development.
— Vadym Stetsiak
Really great talk. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
— Phil Whelan
Excellent talk, with more useful information per minute than any meetup I've attended. Thank you.
— John Neffenger
Great speaker and excellent talk. Tons of things that were surfaced on looking at scaling for an MMO.
— Jaime Bueza
Reviews from
Apache CXF Web Services on Tuesday Aug 23, 2011

Meetup Rating
4.5011

Attendees
40
Tried to compress too much into the time we had, but otherwise an informative meeting.
— Sam Cirka
Speaker talked for a very long time. Part of the purpose of user groups is to be able to network, learn about what is going on in your community, etc. Given the length of the talk there was little time and little energy left for networking. That said, I found the talk interesting enough. The speaker needed to provide some higher level "pictures" to go with the details - this would help to bridge the disparity in knowledge amongst the audience given that some where relative newbies to this tech and others were quite familiar with it.
— Tim
very informative
— David
Very informative. Thank you.
— Ellena
Liked it as it was developer oriented, Could have been better if comparisons with existing frameworks and the real merits of CXF were covered.
— Raama
Very effective and well organised speaker. I'm always impressed when a speaker can troubleshoot live-demo problems on the spot!
— Brian Leathem
Reviews from
Learn about Cassandra on Wednesday Jun 29, 2011

Meetup Rating
4.509

Attendees
44
This turned out to be one of the most interesting and stimulating meetups I've been to. I felt a bit lost at first. I realize now I didn't have a good high-level idea of what Cassandra was built for and what problems it solves. I would have appreciated more of a general introduction with practical examples before digging into the details. Or maybe I'm just slow <grin>. But once I wrapped my head around things I was really interested in the subject matter. The talk was well organized, the level of detail was good, and the speaker was knowledgeable and very patient when answering questions. I would have liked to see some sample code, just to see what the API is like and how to use it properly. Thankyou Sean!
— Gord Harris
There are some things I didn't understand very well, but it was good to get an overall idea on what Cassandra is, how and when to use it.
— Mauricio
a promising technology, intelligent people!
— Jing (Jean) Li
Sean knew his stuff. The discussion was lively. I learned a lot. There was a lot to talk about so a bit of knowledge about NOSQL and even Cassandra should have been a pre-requisite (e.g., prior to the meeting, send an email mentioning good sites to visit). The meetup went a bit long, but for all the right reasons.
— Vince Lasmarias
Awesome! Really good! Looking forward for the next one !
— Santiago Arias
Reviews from
Realize the full potential of JSF with Seam Faces and CDI on Tuesday Apr 26, 2011

Meetup Rating
5.003

Attendees
20
I have never use seam faces before. This event gives me a good start to have a try.
— Lin Zhu
I had a great time presenting, thanks guys!
— Brian Leathem
Reviews from
Boost Hibernate Performance 10x via the new Ehcache and Hibernate Cache provider on Wednesday Jun 16, 2010

Meetup Rating
4.5010

Attendees
35
What a fantastic presentation. It's was 100% apparent that Ari new his stuff, and was not holding back in sharing any details. I learned a lot.
— Brian Leathem
Great presentation overall. Slides could use some work.
— Teg Bains
Ari gave a great overview of ehcache and terracotta, answering every question thrown at him with great precision. He made a compelling argument for the value of the marriage of these two technologies.
— Sam Cirka
Very nice and insightful talk. Great speaker too.
— Danil Glinenko
It was great, Ari Zilka is very knowledgeable and always interesting to listen to.
— Igor Stelmashenko
Reviews from
JavaEE 6 new and noteworthy on Tuesday Jan 26, 2010

Meetup Rating
4.505

Attendees
23
Great presentation Arun!!!
— Alexandre Faria