CodeWorks '12 Conference Tour
25 Sep - 12 Dec 2012
at Multiple
Talk comments
Awesome. Most of all loved the tools presented.
it was a great talk, especially since you were brought in at the last minute. I liked the opening slides :) and I like that you presented both php and non-php tools to get the job done.
Switching to bootstrap
Learned a lot. The 'no .htaccess in prod' tip was my favortie.
Excellent talk. Thanks
Really appreciated thoughts on how to deal with legacy code without re-writing everything from scratch. My favorite takeaways: auto-created documentation rocks!, standards matter for APIs & frameworks, and a fantabulous 3 R's recycling-like diagram for APIs: Reuse (what you want to), Refactor (what you can), Rewrite (what you need to).
As a noob, this talk was above my head a lot of the time, but it looked like it had LOTS of great tools and tips, as well as details on using FRAPI. Main suggestions: do more demo-ing of FRAPI, as it's always fun to see developers in action, and give a FRAPI and/or API for dummies explanation towards the beginning about what it is and why it's useful. :)
Side note: LOVED the funky pen you handed out for swag (flickr.com/photos/adellefrank/8047162265).
Demo-ed a HUGE list of practical tools to use for improving your dev process. No matter how you are set up, you'll be able to add in these little bits/programs to make it better. Like Cal, used the tell-show-tell approach of telling you why things mattered and what/why he was showing you, showing you, while also telling you more details and explanations at same time. Only suggestion: might have taken a brief moment more to explain "Continuous Integration/Deployment". Overall: insanely useful, and fairly clear (even to a noob like me). Thanks for sharing your time, expertise & slides!
Slides nicely designed and easy to read. Really fabulous knowledge of how to automate version control, deployment, etc. for a group of developers. Excellent resources, especially for database deployment and, of course, ping. Sometimes the detail went way over my head, but that wasn't the only session this happened in :)
Disclaimer: my PHP skills are rather basic. Even so, the demo was great and Cal did an excellent job of communicating, even to noobs like me. He clearly explained the PURPOSES for which the Silex framework works and doesn't work, as well as dropping in brief explanations of key PHP & O-O concepts and each step he was taking. I really enjoyed his tell-show-tell approach of telling you why things mattered and what/why he was showing you, showing you, while also telling you more details and explanations at same time. And, funny! I would have laughed out loud more, but was still waking up various parts of my brain that AM.
Would love to get the slides and any code you'd be willing to share!
I was greatly disturbed that you were still able to find example sites that were that bad. Though, in looking into them, all were straight HTML pages. Neither, were PHP generated. Was expecting examples by PHP developers.
I like the term "unicorn puke." It was very appropriate.
You made some good points about what should and shouldn't be changeable fields, and why, as pointed out by the rational behind the unorthodox Facebook sign-up form.