Talk comments

Arnout Boks at 23:16 on 8 Jun 2019

Great and inspiring content, presented in style. I did seem that at some point in your talk you discussed having done a migration with rector before actually explaining what rector is and does. You might want to add an introductory slide before that. Also the interactive 'quizzes' may work well for some people in the audience, but others might be confused because they think you're actually in doubt. They also slow down the pace a bit, while there are some many interesting aspects of rector to see. All in all, this was a great introduction. I will definitely start using rector for some batch transformations on source code.

Arnout Boks at 23:10 on 8 Jun 2019

I liked hearing more about scrum beyond the usual 'rules of the game'. I had hoped for some more practical insights: what problems has the speaker encountered in practice, and how did they deal with it? Right now I think the talk leaned more to the theoretical or even philosophical side. That's also an interesting topic, but not what I came for (based on the "in pratice" in the title). I would also leave the example with the male and female remote out, it's unnecessarily generalizing. The speaker had a great stage presence, got his points across clearly and definitely has potential.

Arnout Boks at 23:02 on 8 Jun 2019

Great introduction into how subtle BC breaks can actually be in PHP, and well presented with the necessary humor. It's great to see talks that go deeper on type theory.

Arnout Boks at 23:00 on 8 Jun 2019

I liked how the talk made us aware how blind to accessibility issues we can sometimes be. It would have been nice to see some more web-specific content though, especially things that go beyond the basics of labels and alt texts. A bit on aria-attributes would be a great addition in my opinion. Very well presented.

Arnout Boks at 22:57 on 8 Jun 2019

Unfortunately this talk didn't work for me. It felt like too much of an enumeration of buzzwords without deeper insights into why we would need al this, the tradeoffs and how to deal with practical issues. The diagrams were great though.

Arnout Boks at 22:54 on 8 Jun 2019

Great talk and clearly presented. It covered all the important parts needed for a great API, what to be aware of, and where to find more information if needed. You can tell that Rob has a lot of practical experience with API's.

Arnout Boks at 22:51 on 8 Jun 2019

Great introduction to HTTP/3, everything you need to know what to do when HTTP/3 really gets traction. I especially liked the real-life analogies and all the helpful illustrations.

Arnout Boks at 22:48 on 8 Jun 2019

Good introduction to Unicode and how to handle it in PHP, covering most of the important concepts. The intro felt a bit slow to me, but other than that it was a great talk. Also, kudos for your amazing slides, I can see that a lot of work went into those.

PS: Regarding your slides, I noticed some small error that you might want to fix in a next version (numbering following PPTX version):
* Slide 79 seems to miss a '\'
* Slide 84 seems to have 'hex' and 'decimal' mixed up
* Slide 99 has '100.000' instead of '10.000' in the right column
* On slide 107, I think that "\x{0045}" should result in an "E" rather than a "D".

Arnout Boks at 22:33 on 8 Jun 2019

Contained everything a keynote needs: humor, anecdotes, a connection between people and technology and lots of things to think about.

Arnout Boks at 22:32 on 8 Jun 2019

Nice introduction to GraphQL. Concepts were clearly explained. The pace felt a bit slow for my taste, but the 'bonus exercises' came in handy to cover some extra ground.