Dutch PHP Conference 2011
19 - 21 May 2011
at Amsterdam RAI
Talk comments
Best talk I've ever seen! Congrats !
+ Easy to find
+ Free food & drink
- Very crowded
- Very noisy
The talk was very interesting and good done, but was more a HTML5 tutorial, was expecting some PHP tips and tricks. Good work anyway!
As someone in twitter said, was like a bad university lecture. Difficult to follow and although the topic seemed to be interesting, in the end it turned out to be a boring talk. Sorry, but you need to improve your talk and presentation skills for the next one!
Great presentation! Would like to be able to give such a talk! The best talk so far.
Great talk, lots of handraising exercise. I would have liked to see more on the latter subjects (and why not to use singletons) rather than the dependency injection.
I lost track of all the different coding standards about 10 minutes in to the presentation. It was very generic, maybe pick the best 5 next time and tell a little more about them? Reading directly from the screen while we had to look at a nice picture is not great, but it gets even worse when you try to explain the picture. Maybe a good idea is a slide of key points per subject and maybe a bad (how not to do it) and a good example code sheet with every subject. This would require way less talking on your side, and a lot more attention on our side.
Not at all what I expected from the description. I expected a management like overview: when to update, procedures to keep track of updates, how to reserve time for this, stuff like that. I did not expect to find myself in the middle of all these complex tools. The fact that the code base wouldn't be complete while coding was a bit underestimated to me: What about a designer that also needs to checkout, change, test and commit a project?
No doubt the contents of the talk are useful to some and the talk wasn't bad. Just not what I came for.
Good pase and more than enough content and fun.
Some minor negative points:
- The beer jokes became boring after a while and no surprise that some did not participate in the hand rasing anymore after a while. It's a good technique to keep people awake, but I think it was used to much, and when you add phrases and questions like "because I need to keep you awake" and "are you guys still awake?" this also gets boring real quick.
- The DIC example of a framework, you're friend worked on, but nobody seemed to know (I could be wrong about this) was a bit strange. The code example did not add anything here and only raised questions "why a closure?". Yes I asked that question and I know a method would have served just as well. Of course this could be the design of the framework, which - if this really is the case - is a flawed design. So stick to proven methods and don't show these experiments. Closures are a nice addition to PHP and can be used for lots of things, but not for this. You should have left that out and not have mentioned it.
Nevertheless a very entertaining and insightful talk.
I like the idea of social events, but you have to be able to socialize then, right ? Too dark, too noisy, too small.
Beverage was excellent though :)
As a suggestion for a next conference, a guided city tour would really interest me, and a few others from what I've heard around me. Even if it's a paid option.