Laracon EU 2014
28 - 30 Aug 2014
at Bimhuis
Talk comments
The talk was related to PHP which is quite relevant to Laravel.
I found the first half of this talk very nice. But, the second half was a walk-through of how to implement them.
I don't need to learn how it's coded. I need to learn how it can be used. Then, I could figure out how to code it myself. Point me to doctrine-annotations and I am fine.
Many of us are now motivated to pursue annotations.
The lack of slides was a mixed blessing. I think that developers sometimes focus too much on reproducing patterns. Also, you could fill many talks with discussions about the patterns that can be used to implement these ideas. I believe that takes the ideas into a completely different direction.
It's my opinion that the concept and benefits of decoupling is clearly not thoroughly understood as well as we might like to believe. Being able to focus on that concept without being distracted by patterns is a positive. I can easily imagine developers suggesting that "decoupling" should be achieved with a specific pattern and leaving their implementation of the concept to that.
The lack of slides only really damaged the talk in minor ways. I believe that if you consider the questions and observe the moments in which you must create examples and become slightly more prepared for those with pre-considered examples it could become easier to follow.
I rate 5 stars not because it's perfect, not because it couldn't be improved. But, because I received strong value and appreciated the focus on education over memorization and reproduction.
Ross Tuck... awesome as always.
Your talk was very informative for encyclopedic of academic interest, but it was irrelevant to a PHP developer conference.
The speaker considered many prerequisites like packages and design patterns. Some of us don't know this shit... yet.
I empathize minority victims. However I found this talk irrelevant to the conference.
The talk was pleasant but not related to Laravel.
Not having slides may seem a nice experiment of "fun" to you as a speaker, but would prefer slides for the following reasons:
- to visual people like me it is extremely hard to come to a conclusion.
- it looked like there was no structure in the talk. Not having slides made you jump from a topic to another without breaks.
- code samples would help to understand the examples better
Great presentation.
As a listener though, I don't like it when the speaker asks "Are you with me?" or "is this clear?", because it doesn't make sense to respond just "no".
I would find it better if you would just ask if we have questions or just don't ask anything.
Once one learns more about programming and how their language works and is used it becomes clear how this type of education is relevant. Keep reading and learning and don't give up.