Dutch PHP Conference 2010
10 - 12 Jun 2010
at Amsterdam
Talk comments
Exactly what I was hoping to find and learn and a lot more.
It missed an overall comparison on what the pros and cons of the different solutions are.
Heard about DI, wanted to know what it is. Now I know.
Speaker seemed a bit nervous, but that did not bother me at all.
Great and entertaining presentation which my coworkers should have seen. Nice to let the audience participate.
The only minor downside for me personally was I already knew the Amazing Color Changing Card trick and had already thought about this clip during the presentation before it was mentioned. Always a pleasure to see it again though.
Poor presentation. The interesting stuff were the answers to some of the questions, and these answers or insights did not come from the speaker but from other attendees. I think the speaker knows some things about the subject, but it did not get across. I was confused: Are Chrystal, XP and SCRUM part of Agile or are they alternatives to it? What parts were part of Agile and what parts were just an example of a way to do Agile? Probably an introduction to the layout of the presentation would have helped.
When the main part of the presentation started, in which I think Agile was actually explained, it only showed empty slides. I have to say they had nice photos in the background, but it might have helped if the slides supported the presentation by putting in a few lines of text.
Also the speaker was so nervous I almost felt sorry.
Reading the other comment about the "PHP code is always dirty" remark. This was so weird I dismissed it immediately. What was that all about?
Great presentation. At the end of the conference I understood this was his first presentation at a conference (or was it the first at DPC?). That would explain the fact that he seemed a bit nervous. Nevertheless it was a very well put together presentation with insightful content.
I also appreciate the fact that the presenter wasn't afraid to show some solutions that are so ugly they should get some sort of an award.
In two minds about this. Nothing wrong with the presentation itself, but I felt it was kind of over elaborating on the obvious (within the context of this conference and this audience), which left to little room for the practical "how", both from a technical and managerial perspective.
BTW, spectacularly different from last years talk by Lorenzo, both in subject matter and the manner of presentation. That alone was quite impressive.
Nice presentation and I had a great talk with Harrie afterwards. Although I don't know about anything that wasn't covered, I do have some doubts on whether Harrie covered everything (relevant) there is to know about the subject. I still have the feeling something is missing.
Excellent talk. Entertaining, inspiring and informative.
Awesome speaker, great tips and definitely going to buy the book. (But he could have spent a little less time selling it... ;-)
Great speaker. Very fast but still very easy to follow, which is very difficult. Made clear the concept of document oriented databases, but it did not convince me. It did make me want to learn more about it so I went to th presentation of Mathew who was able to convince me.
Maybe the speaker was a bit too focussed on the possibilities of the http interface and I am not convinced this would make it better than mongodb.
Constraints? It was made clear at the start that we wouldn't hear a lot on this subject, but I didn't hear anything about this. I'm still curious on whether there is actually a solution to this when it comes to relations.