Laracon EU
30 - 31 Aug 2013
at Bimhuis
Talk comments
Agree with rest - was a good talk but seemed kinda unplanned, time-wise. Not sure if something went wrong as some sections seemed to be skipped over or the kinda "I'm not gonna talk about that pattern in this talk" thing happened, even though there was plenty of time. The pacing itself seemed fine, so just shove more content in :) I'd loved to have heard about more patterns!
A great reminder that we should try and leverage and help those of the community who may very well be helping us in turn, even if indirectly. My only criticism is that the theoretical / meta aspects of the talk didn't seem to gel too well with the practical, although this certainly became clearer towards the end. A bit unfortunate that Frank was cut short as I had some questions :)
Also, would have liked to have discussed with Frank some finer details of the Variadic arguments implementation, which I debated with Phil Sturgeon last night on twitter :P
Overall, a really good talk and I wish we had more talks like this reminding us just how lucky we are to have such great communities that support what we do. Well done, Frank!
PS: I also think this was probably the most original talk at the whole conference - I don't think I've seen anyone touch on such a subject before.
Good talk, showing some other ways of dealing with Laravel. If anything, Kapil demonstrated that you're not locked into any specific way of developing. The main problem however, was what appeared to be some flaws in the architecture, which may not have been too well communicated in the timespan allotted. I would like to hear more, as I feel the talk was too fast for the amount of content and the concepts being communicated.
When I heard Taylor was going to do a talk about Artisan, I was at first a little disappointed - I expected more meat. However, Taylor delivered a talk explaining some deeper aspects of artisan tasks and some capabilities that I wasn't aware of. Good job! Criticisms - none, really. Taylor clearly feels comfortable on stage.
Probably my favourite talk of the conference, because the content was so fresh. There's so much about the HTTP protocol I clearly had no idea bout, which I feel I can now use to my advantage in building better APIs. My only qualm and concern, was earlier on in the talk the speaker seemed a bit nervous, but as the talk went on Ross clearly became more comfortable and settled into a a good pace and medium. Well done.
Great talk, explaining how developers should be building our packages for composer with framework agnosticism in mind. A friendly reminder to make our code as portable as possible. Agree with the delivery, was probably just a bit fast.
Fantastic talk, going over why we need testing, and how we should build our apps to be able to write better tests. Not much new here, but still refreshing.
Totally disagree with whoever that gutless troll is man!
Bloody brilliant talk! Great perspective, clearly lots of research has obviously been undertaken and well conveyed :)
Appreciate the insights in this talk! Always great to see how somebody goes about engineering apps that are much more complex than "hello world".
Having been up on stage, I can really appreciate what it takes to get up in front of hundreds of people, and I think you went very well mate :)
Top job.
Good talk, shame about the video hiccup. Would've been nice to have got them working separately from the presentation and shown them at the end or something.
That said, I understand that the last thing you wanna do on stage is do a whole "bear with me while this may or may not work" kinda thing. The show must go on and all that.