ConFoo 2012
27 Feb - 3 Mar 2012
at Hilton Montreal Bonaventure Hotel
Talk comments
Great talk. Easy to follow and complete. Lots of examples.
Excellente présentation. Clair et direct avec des exemples. Je vais regarder scala en détail maintenant!
What does the slide #2 mean (IWYGWYETG)?
Apart from it, pretty nifty tricks on XSS which every form designer should be aware about!
I recently found someone who'd done zero validations on a production site form, and it had been like that for 5 months. Thankfully enough, probably hackers were dumb enough to realise that maybe XSS exploit checks were in place, and hence they didn't do anything nasty. Phew!
Sorry, claiming my comment above :)
The talk description or title might use a little clarification that you cover real world high-level implementation advice, and now low-level code. But that shouldn't affect the info you presented, which will prove very insightful for anyone who is on this path.
Poor presentation, worst of my life so far!
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the feedback! Here are some links on youtube for some good Dave Logan talks on the topic:
Dave Logan on Tribal Leadership
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTkKSJSqU-I
Dave Logan on Building a Genius Tribe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvg9fSp1lEI
CultureSync has a couple of good classes on the principles:
http://www.culturesync.net/courses/tribal-leadership-intensive
Anytime you would like to e-mail about the topic, get a hold of me through my website: http://www.surdek.ca
Thanks for coming to the talk!
Steffan
P.S.: Sorry for rating myself... I wanted to pass along info to Matt...
I am sorry if the talk did not help you. I'm trying to find actionable feedback in what you wrote, but am having trouble.
If you mention that there were no applause, it means you left during the Q&A. There were applauses, and long ones, at the end of the Q&A session, when I showed the final slide. I started the Q&A session early because the theoretical content had been delivered and I had planned to leave a lot of time for Q&A, where I gave a lot of important pointers.
I had very positive comments from people who came to see me after the talk.
There weren't many slides because I wanted people to focus on what was said and the questions and answers. The topic *is* abstract. Way more than HTML5 or the latest PHP framework.. As explained in the talk, the point was to provide leads and ideas for people to find their answers. Lack of refactoring is a very complex problem and a single talk cannot cover all the required concepts. Some thinking needed to occur when I realized that only 3 people in a room of maybe 60 did not know what code smells are.
But the main takeaway for me is that maybe this topic should only be addressed in workshops, since everybody's situation and understanding are so different. As mentioned at the end of the talk, I will upload a version of the slides with more text and references. Hoping you will take a look at them and get more from the presentation.
Umm...I don't think Maxime presented this one, unless Jordi got a major hair cut.
Fantastic job Jordi...I'm totally excited about this project, and agree that this could have major implications on the future of PHP. I'd love to be able to go to a central package repository like packagist, search for something like "captcha", and see whats available and what is being most use. Then be able to grab it and keep it updated easily with composer.
Very entertaining!!! Probably the funiest talk at confoo. There was some very interesting analogies covered.