Dutch PHP Conference 2019
6 - 8 Jun 2019
at RAI Amsterdam
Talk comments
Advise I would like to give is to switch a little more clearly between explaining/demonstrating and doing (In Dutch "praatje-plaatje-daadje"). I felt like I was doing too much instead of listening/learning, I'm bad at multitasking :)
I personally like to experiment when I learn something new. Did a Neo4j workshop once at the DPC that allowed time to experiment, basically let everybody go through the exercises at their own pace with learning/demonstration moments in between.
THE GOOD :
Matthias Noback: enough said :)
No really, you're also a great speaker employing the right pace of speaking and keeping your slides simple is a way of engaging the audience : they have to listen a lot more to what you have to say, instead of reading it off your slides.
The talk was not too technical, nor too simple : you found the middle road.
THE 'LESS' GOOD :
Allthough your pacing was good, the talk itself was just a tad overtime, which prohibited questions by the audience, which is always a shame.
Personally, I found the subject interesting enough, but at the same time somewhat 'vague' : I am a great advocate of detailed code examples to demonstrate a point.
A great talk by a very well trained speaker about a very abstract subject, what more could you ask for for a last time slot on a conference? I however would have appreciated a bit more details (either in code examples or a few extra slides with a few details). I learned a few new things however, and will be spending some time exploring them, so I would say : Mission accomplished :)
I was genuinely curious to hear the various problems a tech lead might come across, and see the speaker's personal take on that, but the delivery was a bit different from that.
I also didn't like that the talk put more effort to scrum methodologies, which I don't think everyone follows in their work place.
THE GOOD :
You're a natural speaker with the talent to catch people's attention seemingly at will, which is great.
You went out of your way supplying code examples, which I always appreciate.
You brought the talk with a whiff of humor, which is also appreciated.
I certainly have picked up a few things to try out in the coming weeks at work.
THE 'LESS' GOOD :
At times, you seemed 'lost' for a second or two when viewing your own slides. Can happen to the best of us, of course, but given your natural talent at speaking, it really showed. No harm done, really, just letting you know :)
This talk has depth; An ideal closing talk. The length was a little bit of a problem, but from my point of view, this was not a problem of the speaker, but more of the organizers. Closing talk can be short if it is powerful, and this talk definitely was...
A very nice talk that goes about the historical reasons why xdebug configuration tend to be a bit messy, but it's awesome to hear about the efforts to make xdebug configuration and functionality leaner and simpler.
Slides could use a slightly bigger font size though. I was at the back and it was a bit hard to read the smaller letters.
THE GOOD :
Well brought talk : engaging and filled with bits of humour, just the way I like it.
I certainly learned a thing or two ( thousand :) ), which is always great.
THE 'LESS' GOOD :
Time constraints made it run a little bit short, which affected pacing.
I left the talk feeling a bit 'unsatisfied' : I expected a few more different types of fun experiments. However : that could be my fault entirely : reading back the talk description I should have known :)
All in all, a good talk given by a natural speaker, but perhaps I expected a little bit more diversity in the fun experiments. However, I will definitely check out Aspect Oriented Programming.
Excellent talk with a very nice deck of slides. I enjoyed the simple and graphical explanation of the Unicode standard and UTF-8 structure in particular.
I wish the talk explained some actionable examples of Unicode security. It quickly mentioned a few key points to watch out for, but I would've loved to see so e real life examples. In fairness this was a 45 minute topic and I think the speaker had some pressure from the keynote that ended a bit late.
Very informative keynote. Having read Kevin's book and his talking pattern, this is yet another very inspiring talk.
Awesome.