Nov 22, 2008, 10:31 by Anonymous
Loved the flashturbation bit :)
KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid)
Derick Rethans (Nov 22, 2008 at 06:00)
Talk at PHP North West 2008 (English - US)
One of PHP’s strengths has always been its low barrier-of-entry. It’s also one of its weaknesses however. In this keynote I will talk about the first steps of getting to know PHP, its community and developers. Of course times have changed now, and we are in the Web 2.0 era now, but the KISS principle still applies; for application design, for UI design and for server set-ups. I will also take you to the application development side of the KISS principle, with simpler architectures you can more easily make powerful complex applications.
Quicklink: http://joind.in/80
Comments
Nov 22, 2008, 11:20 by phpcodemonkey
Great intro to the day, got a few laughs with flashturbation stuff ;)
Nov 22, 2008, 11:40 by BinaryKitten
reall good talk.. just the last slide with the alternating colour/black and white started to trigger my photosensitivity..
Nov 22, 2008, 13:58 by Anonymous
Great tips on UID thanks!
Nov 22, 2008, 22:49 by Anonymous
Good solid advice from the speaker.
The only sore point in my opinion was what appeared to be a slight bias against flash.
I agree with his most of his comments regarding flash and incompatibility in various situations, but the fact remains that it can provide a level of interactivity in ways that a web application can't.
The fact that the example portfolio site referred to had some MAJOR clients could be seen as a good example of the public's love for it.
Nov 24, 2008, 09:13 by Anonymous
Good introduction and some good tips as well.
Nov 24, 2008, 11:55 by Anonymous
Didn't enjoy it. If you crossed an angry linux user with Jakon Nielsen (without the research) then I think this is the talk they'd give.
I thought the content was very subjective and personally disagreed with a lot of it.
It also wasn't particularly focused on PHP. So you've got a world-famous PHP/internals developer giving a keynote at a PHP conference about (pretty much) frontend interface design/UX.
Nov 24, 2008, 12:52 by Anonymous
Not hugely impressed. Agree with another commenter that much of the talk was subjective and many of the problems were over emphasised.
Nov 24, 2008, 14:13 by philipnorton42
Interesting (and funny) talk about usability and website design. Not heard the term flashturbation before, but it completely makes sense.
Derick even followed KISS in his slides by having a maximum of 2 words per slide.
Nov 24, 2008, 18:22 by stefan
slightly less good than at IPC, but probably mostly due to jetlag. I still loved it though.
Nov 25, 2008, 08:52 by zedzdead
I bit of a rant, and similar but not as good as the London conference.
Some valid points though.
Nov 26, 2008, 08:59 by Anonymous
PHP internals developer. PHP conference. Keynote talk.. on user experience. Why on earth wasn't this about PHP?
The actual talk was a nice reminder and somewhat amusing in parts, but nothing groundbreaking, or in my eyes, relevant to the conference.
Nov 22, 2008, 10:17 by mikelittle
Great. Some good points. Things I've learned over 20 years of programming. Good to see such principals being promoted for web/php.