Bulgaria PHP Conference
25 - 27 Sep 2015
at Sofia Event Center (SEC at Paradise Center)
Talk comments
Felt a bit like a routine lecture at first, but to be honest, the topic itself is just boring for most developers I know. Still, it did manage to interest me and I'm surely looking forward to doing more LDAP stuff now, so 5/5!
I do have one suggestion though: There was this note about ldap_connect() not actually doing a network connection ... very useful to know, but takes awhile to figure out why it is that way. Explaining that in the talk would be nice. :)
Obviously something quite different from the other talks, which was refreshing. But also a problem because you need to *make* it interesting for the crowd and that didn't really happen.
The speaker did warn that she's forced to squeeze a 1 hour talk into 40 mins because of the event's schedule, so that may've been the real problem.
The apparent judgement based on whether you own a certain book or not was way over the top. While I understand the nobel intent behind that, it may backfire badly because it hurts people's feelings.
In fact, just after the talk I overheard a conversation between two attendees, belittling ALL of the talk. And I'm quite certain it was exactly because of that one bad moment, not just crappy developers looking for excuses not to do unit tests. You don't want that!
Everything else was rock solid though, so still 5/5 from me.
The topic is very interesting, and the content for it was just fine, but the talk itself felt kind of dry ... just doesn't grab your attention in any way other than yourself wanting to learn how Varnish works.
IMO, some (entertaining if possible) "fail" examples and perhaps a few charts displaying the benefits of it all would make for a huge improvement.
This was spot on, advices, slides, delivery. You really should do this more often
I really enjoyed this talk. It gave a broad overview of front end.
The clicker you were using seems to be really uncomfortable for you, and you should really show your passion for the topic, as you shown it when we were talking outside in the hallway
Excellent keynote!
Most other talks would naturally condemn every little flaw, so it was very fitting for this one to close the day, because it delivered an important reminder: you can't solve all the problems overnight.
There were those few loud moments though. :)
The tutorial was veey well thought through - the gradual code examples/tasks, the real life code samples, the clear explanation of the benefits of TDD, the well stressed distinction between 100% code coverage and actually doing meaningful tests. I enjoyed every minute of it, espesially the part with the usage of logging as a mechanism to inspect/assert legacy code without breaking it.
One thing that might have been usefully (in my personal opinion) is an explanation of the distinction between Fake, Mock, Stub, etc. and when and how to use them (although the information is available in the php unit documentation). Another thing I missed in the tutorial (or maybe I was not paying attention) was abstract class unit testing and using reflections in testing (although the latter was covered in one of your great followup talks).
Having said that, I am fully aware that nobody can cover all the wonders of unit testing in a limited amount of time and I was really pleased with the opportunity of being a part of this great tutorial.
One last thing. This was my first attendance at such an event and I would like to thank you, Michelangelo, for your humble, clear and passionate approach! It means a lot to me!
Nice talk, but too much Waaat for me ;)
Indescribable, you just have to experience this one!