Laracon EU 2014
28 - 30 Aug 2014 at Bimhuis

Great presentation. I was impressed to see what Laravel can actually do in large scale application. And it doesn't really get any larger than this.

Great presentation! Not something I would have expected at such a conference and perhaps that says it all.

I just wanted to add that perhaps most can be gained in this cause by motivating girls ( and other minorities in tech ) at an early age. I know there are some project in the Netherlands doing this at the moment.

So I wish you good luck as an advocate in this struggle. Eventually we'll get there!

I've been at other talks for Andreas and he seems really good at compressing large amounts of information in one simple understandable presentation. My head was spinning afterwards, but I still gained great new insights of the talk.

At first the talk seemed to be prepared really badly. But I soon realized the speaker was just too nervous. Content-wise it actually was a good presentation, but it just didn't come across as one.

But it is to be expected from anyone first presentation. If you take that into consideration, it wasn't that bad. And the speaker did much better in the question round.

I really hope Xander will continue speaking because with some simple tips next time could be much better.

For example:
- The screen behind you is for the audience, not for you. Don't look at it. Ever! Except at the start to verify it shows the presentation. If you need it as a guide, make sure it show on your laptop.
- If someone tells you to talk into the mic and you're not comfortable standing statically behind your computer, ask for a mobile mic. There were enough. Now you lost almost half the audience because they could barely hear you.

The nervousness is something that goes away with practice. Don't feel ashamed about it, 90% of the people in the audience would never want to trade places because they would be to afraid.

Best wishes,
Jochem

What I missed in this talk was really a good comparison between AR and DM or specifically Doctrine and Eloquent.

It left me with feeling Doctrine was a major step backwards, which can't really be the case. But as someone who has never worked with it, many of its workings seemed alien. It really seemed aimed at existing doctrine users and I was hoping ( perhaps in vain, retrospectively ) it would also provide some insight for people that don't use it at all.

But I guess a lightning talk is too short to really properly talk about this.

Also, use a different color scheme for your code examples, even with the lights dimmed a lot of it was very hard to read from the back. There wasn't enough contrast.