Dutch PHP Conference 2017
29 Jun - 1 Jul 2017 at RAI Amsterdam

Hi Renato,

I'm sorry my feedback came across as non-constructive, that was certainly not intended. I really understand the desire to treat some topics you're passionate about, I just think that they might work better in a different form.

I really appreciate that you want to highlight some features that set GraphQL apart (like the pagination, direct query on mutation, etc.). I also think that the topic of integrating GraphQL into a Symfony app is really interesting and useful. IMHO, treating both in a 45 minute talk for an audience (probably) not familiar with GraphQL is probably a bit too much. I think including both these subjects leaves too little time for forming a solid understanding of GraphQL basics, which is a pity, because that makes it more difficult to see and appreciate the other interesting topics in context.

Personally, I would explore several options:
* Putting more focus on GraphQL itself (basics plus unique features), making the Symfony bundle more of a mention/recommended resource that the audience can delve into themselves.
* Putting the focus on GraphQL integration in Symfony, but illustrating usage of the bundle more by well-explained basic GraphQL features rather than some more exotic ones
* Requiring the audience to have a basic understanding of GraphQL, making it a more advanced level talk
* Requiring a timeslot of at least 60 minutes
* See if you can create a workshop out of this talk. I honestly think this option has a lot of potential. Your talk has so many practical take-aways that, if you are allowed the time to underlay them with a (more) solid basis (and your audience can get a feel for it), it would be really useful.

Arnout

PS: apparently I cannot comment without a new rating :S

Great talk
Very informative, showing a lot of features/topics without diving very deep into them!

The idea is good, but there are several considerations to take into account.

Changing to Haskell without explaining how a simple function looks, is not the way to go when probably it is the first contact the audience has with it.

Maybe focus on fewer topics and have more examples and/or explain them in a "real life" example.
For instance, you mention the Maybe object, if I hadn't been in the "M-M-Monads" talk I would have no idea what is that about.

Another thing that bothered me personally was some choice of words, like "I think", "apparently", this kind of seemed that you were unsure or confused about it, even if this isn't the case (wich I believe), it kind of demotivated me.

Very nice talk
Great job

@Frits @Martijn
Thanks for the feedback, I like to give the talk a natural flow instead of presenting a "agenda" like many speakers do, maybe it turns a bit harder to know what's coming next, I'll thing of a way to improve it but still keeping my style!

@Arnout
I understand you might find one or other thing more important, the goal of the talk (as in the description of it) is to give a introduction and shows how to implement it on symfony, also the schema was mentioned many times in the talk. My main point is to show common used features in APIs, so pagination and the relay cursors are important in my opinion. I think you are not constructive in your feedback but I appreciate you took your time to come here. Thanks.

Good to see a talk about GraphQL! I liked the beautiful slides, Starwars references and humorous presentation style.

I think the talk was a bit unstructured though, leaving out some important GrapQL basics (like the presence of a schema and root fiields) but focussing on some details like pagination. Maybe the scope of the talk (treating both GraphQL itself and its integration into a Symfony app) was a bit too broad for 45 minutes. The combination of topics might make a good workshop though.

I liked the talk, the energetic presentation style and the demos. It sure made me enthousiastic about [strike]React PHP[/strike] the real React.

I do feel that the talk came across a bit unstructured and probably too fast-paced. I would have preferred less demos, bit with some more time to see what's under the hood, why such a thing would or wouldn't be a good idea, and how it compares to approaches without React. Also, the code was hard to read sometimes with the current color scheme.

Great talk and nice to see content on soft real skills like this. I think the speaking style and anecdotes from experience contributed to a nice personal touch without lacking in general take-aways. In my opinion, bushing up the slides just a bit more can help you get your point across even stronger. Also, I think that there are a lot of differences between American and European work culture, but that might be a topic for a talk in itself :)

Interesting talk, covering two topic (OSM data and MongoDB spatial queries) in a nicely integrated manner. Delivery and presentation was spot on as well.

One thing that got me a bit confused at first was the connection between the intro and the part where you show how data can be filtered by different tags. From the intro I understood that the goal was to build a tool for a specific use case (so that much of the data can already be filtered/converted on-import), not a more general-purpose OSM feature finder. Making clear that 'finding open pubs' is just one example of what the desired tool can do might make the need for a flexible metadata structure a bit more natural.

Hi Nils,

Great talk. Very non-technical approach to managing dependencies!
Would you be so kind to make the slides available? =>

Greetings, Marc