ConFoo 2011
7 - 12 Mar 2011
at Hilton Montreal Bonaventure
Talk comments
Definitely worth getting up at 8:30 for. It was hugely interesting listening to how you can coax PHP onto mobile devices like a phone or ebook readers. I'd love to see what he does next.
Very interesting talk. Covered the basics that everyone should know quickly, then went on to more advanced stuff. Enjoyed it and learned several things that I look forward to applying.
Très bonne présentation
Saw Paul for the first time and liked his calmness and professionalism.
The talk it self was a nice overview about XHGui and it what it is capable of.
I used XHProf without the gui once and it just knocked me out ;)
But will give it a try again.
Only the switching between two computers was a imo not so fortunate way to do a live demo.
Nevertheless good talk.
Great introduction to Solar! But watch out when showing benchmarks, especially when your measuring empty applications.
Positive about the knowledge on the topic!
Great talk on an intriguing subject. The slides were well-formatted and easy to follow.
I've been using Xdebug for years off and on...Zend Debugger seems to work more easily out-of-the-box with Eclipse (which is the main IDE where I work) but I really like the profiling data and error messages and such.
For the presentation, I thought there was lots of useful information I probably would not have known about and it was really great to hear from the person who wrote the software. The best diagram in the whole presentation was the one that showed how xdebug connects back to the IDE - that's been a source of confusion for me and my coworkers and was made completely clear. (Also very cool that more than one IP address can be "called back.")
PHP Conferences in my experience are full of vastly differing opinions, but I felt the speaker did a good job of presenting useful content and tried to give pros/cons to leave the decisions to the informed implementer.
The screen itself was a little low, but I was able to read every font size used from the back row.
I would have loved to hear some of the topics in more depth, but of course time doesn't permit that.
Good review of some basic security concepts, and brought to attention some serious concerns we may be overlooking. All the code was PHP, and some of the issues are relevant only to PHP
Great talk, I learned about a few cool tools to improve my code. I like that he admits what he don't know and his ready to look for more information on it after the talk.