Talk comments

Paul James at 21:10 on 8 Jun 2019

Really interesting look at the current issues with XDebug and how they are going to be improved in the future. Derick is a great clear speaker who commands attention and delivered an information packed 45 minutes.

Thomas Berends at 21:05 on 8 Jun 2019

This was an awesome talk. I'll certainly be using Rector soon. It was a great mix of information and interaction with the audience.

Very good talk on a very important subject with a clear message you can't argue with! I liked Jessica stories and the one with a paralyzed girl was very touching... The only issue I had with the reception were quotes. I think it'd be easier if they were put on slides, so that the audience could follow the words.

on RTFM

I really liked the topic, the content and the delivery. Carl made it clear why we as developers should be more willing to teach other people, so that we learn and give back to the community.

Dedicated time for questions during the talk was a new thing for me, but I think it worked very well with the cameral room and a small audience.

Great talk. I'd heard a talk about Go before and had a look at it myself but didn't understand the point of it. "It doesn't even have exception, what?" This talk contained the missing information and the ideas behind the language. I also enjoyed seeing the development trajectory of Go and how it's similar to PHP in some ways.
Good delivery.

Entertaining, interesting and very well delivered. I wish the abstract mentioned that this is all about Rector, but, on the other hand, keeping it in secret made a great surprise to me! To be honest, I hadn't heard about the tool before the talk and now I can't wait to try Rector on Monday!

Fantastic talk.

Thank you.

on RTFM

Very good, in depth talk about the art of using exceptions. Exceptions may sound an easy topic, but Szymon proved that if you want to do it well, you need to take many things into account. It was really interesting and the number of questions just prove it.

I would consider changing the structure of the talk by starting with an explanation why exceptions are important and then an explication how to use them well.

Interesting talk. I can see myself using Rec(onstruc)tor in the future.

The title and abstract are a bit misleading. The talk is mostly about (ab)using stream handlers / wrappers to do pre-compilation. Very interesting idea.
Good delivery.