Brno PHP Conference 2014
19 - 20 Sep 2014 at Zemědělská 1, Brno, Czech Republic

I liked the start - it was fun. On the other hand I didn't enjoy the second half of the speech that much. From how it started I expected a "grande finale" ... but it didn't come. You were walking really in depth about how bad your code was but when you were talking about the refactoring itself you skipped a lot of details. Next time you should focus more on the subject and less on the good jokes (they were really good btw :D).

This I think was a very hard slot to fill, not helped by everything running late. Fabrice did very well and explained some interesting (for me, familiar, except for using SCRUM) techniques - using metrics, using continuous deployment and so on are stuff that resonated well for me. I would say to try to use less bullet points, I spent a lot of time reading what was on the slides & sometimes lost track of the talk because of it (possibly tiredness??). Otherwise a great - interesting talk.

I enjoyed this - learning how these "magic" features work - the various proxy methods that are used in Doctrine and PHPUnit was especially interesting.

This was initially a very amusing talk - mainly because I think all developers could relate to some of the horror stories that Thorsten recalled. However, I think maybe the talk should contain more examples - but not generic "refactoring" examples - I have seen those over and over, I would like to see some real world examples of refactoring & real numbers on performance improvements and so on! Also a little too much looking at the slides perhaps? :)

I would say that this was the best speak of the day. I can't say how much I enjoyed it and mostly how much I gained from it. I thought that I can't do most things better than now ... guess what :)

I loved that this presentation wasn't just another one with one goal: "use Doctrine". You always mentioned the good way and the bad way, you were critic ... it was just good :)

This was a good insight into what Sebastian and his team have been doing to implement CI / other good methodologies into the process. The talk contained a lot of familiar challenges to me - introducing unit testing, we also briefly used phpUnderControl, and interesting to see tools I had not previously heard of (SonarQube) which I will check out. Getting code / build statistics is always very useful, and something I am trying to push for myself :)

It is interesting as I compared this to Anthony Ferrara's "Don't be STUPID, grasp SOLID" talk - the same subject but a different perspective - a few new things I have learnt about SOLID today, but it is always good to be reminded of these important principles.