28.Feb.2009 at 14:30 by Stuart Lowes
Enjoyed this talk was good to see real world examples of the differences frameworks can have on development practices.
Living with Frameworks
Stuart Herbert (27.Feb.2009)
Talk at PHP UK Conference 2009 (English - US)
In the last couple of years, partly in response to Ruby on Rails, frameworks have become the hottest topic in the PHP community. Frameworks are where most of the innovation can be found today, and frameworks rather than language features are driving adoption of PHP worldwide. But what are the longer-term consequences of adopting a framework for your project or your business?
In this talk, Stuart will be looking at the lessons he's learnt at Gradwell since they made the decision to adopt a leading PHP framework in 2007. He'll explain why they adopted a framework, what they had to do to make it work, and the many lessons they've learned along the way. The emphasis will be on using frameworks in a business and leadership context, but he will explain some common coding issues too.
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28.Feb.2009 at 20:57 by Rowan Merewood
Solid subject and Stuart knows what he's talking about. He's got a knack for making things accessible but still interesting at different levels. Could have done with a bit more polish to give it more of a story, but I know that was down to time rather than skill!
28.Feb.2009 at 22:14 by Nick Belhomme
Stuart really tried, and succeeded in telling the message that you should give frameworks a shot. It really doesn't matter which one you pick, as long as it suits your needs. Different frameworks provide different solutions all with positive and negative sides. And he discussed all of them and made the public interact with the presentation.
Great talk
28.Feb.2009 at 22:56 by Marc Gear
A very interesting perspective on how frameworks affect the management of a development team, and a good discussion on how to adopt on where legacy code exists. Essentially a case study about Gradwells' own experience with adopting the symfony framework, it was detailed and well delivered although I felt it was a little too naive and evaneglistic about the use of frameworks. Stuart comes across as very experienced and intelligent. This was the most useful and relevant talk I attended at the conference.
05.Mar.2009 at 11:03 by Dave Marshall
Gave a nice insight into how smoothly the adoption went at Gradwell, gave me a few things to think about.
27.Feb.2009 at 15:39 by Ben Waine
I really wanted too see this (I saw from twitter to twitex at phpNW: excellent) but was locked out due to overcrowding. Despite the fact I turned up 10 min early. Really, the Microsoft implementation of PHP, was it ever going to draw more then 50 people by choice?
I suspect they insisted on being on the main track due to the sponsorship.