While not very .Net-centric, still a very good presentation. Demonstrated exactly the topic at hand, and I think nothing was lost by using Heroku and then summarizing using AppHarbor, as the deployment aspect is quite similar. Attendee participation reflected a need for a presentation on DVCS.

— Robert Glynn

Informative

— stephen trudel

Very interesting presentation. I went right home and deployed a nodejs/express app on heroku within 10mins, so the speaker was correct about how easy and fast it is. A little lengthy though, should focus just on the topic at hand instead of explaining things like git, which people could look up themselves if needed.

— Thorsten Lorenz

As a newbie on deploying to the cloud, it was very a nice meeting to know what other developers are doing.

— Andrew H Choi

Not enough time spent on AppHarbor which would apply directly to .Net developers.

— Jahmal Lewis

Steve did a great job on talk and Q&A. Loved it! Thanks!

— Evgeny Balykov

very good

— dave marks

Well done!

— Namgeun Jeong

Steve made the topic very easy to understand and covered the different implementations / approaches very well. He used great examples that were easy to follow and presented the material in a very intuitive manner. The only criticism I would have is that personally, the presentation felt a little long perhaps because too much time was spent on the beginning. Perhaps the examples can cut back on the number of wrappers as it gets slightly redundant and/or simplify the exceptions thrown to just crash instead of having two types of exceptions as it diverts the attention to the service instead of concentrating on AOP.

— Jun Tsukamoto

I like this meeting. It inspired me to use spring.net framework

— Denys Ivanov

Awesome overview

— Jahmal Lewis

Very interesting topic with full of great contents. Nice talk! Aop as an alternative and different prob solving perspectives. Always enjoy Steve's talk.

— George Chen

Thank you! Great insights!

— Kirill

This was my first meet up and it had everything I need to keep coming back: thought provoking and engaging. Now I just need to get my hands on that YouTube video...

— lisa halpern

I loved the discussions, the arguments for and against topics, they way a user group should be: Loud and Clear.

— Johan Bager

Very interesting topic, with a lot to cover. I'm glad I went, I wished I could have stayed longer. I'd also cast a few stones: 1) a 2-hour lecture needs a break/intermission, and 2) Hold questions until the end (perhaps of each session) and 3) start on time. (RE: holding questions: in my experience, at least 90% of audience contributions *during* the delivery of a lecture are at best not useful and at worst mood-changing. Though I love a group discussion, lectures are a different kind of forum, and I've personally lost all tolerance for audience members who hijack a presentation without considering whether or not their questions are useful to the audience at large. My brain then, despite any argument I may present it, tends to blame the presenter for allowing this). Overall, it was a great presentation of a complex and bold topic, well delivered and engaging - I'll definitely be back for more.

— Mark Freydl

Interesting topic. Great speaker. Many thanks.

— Mikhail

Nice overview of the two technologies together.

— Vincent Bortone

Great system/utility for db schema management. Really enjoyed all the insights. Thank You Stefan!

— Richard Logwood

Good, practical examples and solutions.

— Vincent Bortone