Talk comments

Peter Fox at 20:12 on 12 Jun 2019

I'd watched the PHP UK talk online so was worried I'd get the same talk. Was pleasantly surprised you dove into doing a bref setup, not just with Laravel but Laravel Nova as it was something I would have considered doing in the future and there were a lot of setups required along the way which was interesting for you to problem solve. Really nicely presented overall, good examples included. I may have got a little lost when you were doing the setup with AWS and the buckets, it's hard when there's just long commands on screen. Also felt a little rushed in moments with all the content included but at the same time I felt like loads of it was really useful. I was wondering through most the talk if I'd have to ask about queues at the end but you included that as well which is a really useful use case for me personally.

Peter Fox at 19:53 on 12 Jun 2019

Great talk, nice clear and clean slides. Communicated with with clear examples which were fun yet relatable. I knew instantly after seeing the talk that I would be taking this information back to my current team to help get around a lot of our "legacy" problems as we've often struggled with the catch 22 of how do we test when we need to refactor yet we can't refactor because we need to test. This made the process seem a lot more obvious and a lot less scary.

Peter Fox at 19:49 on 12 Jun 2019

This talk really started Tuesday off well. Learning to make packages better has a lot of barriers because I don't get the time to experiment with it and I couldn't see my place of work letting me have the time to learn this, let alone where to really start improving my process of making a package. This talk has made that so much easier and taken away most if not all of those hurdles.

The presentation was great and the live coding was so smooth and clear. It's always good to learn by example so seeing it happen live in front of you was very effective.

Peter Fox at 19:39 on 12 Jun 2019

A really great session. On the drive home on the tuesday I thought to myself I wish more conferences did this actually. It was a nice way to wind down the conference on the monday. I think future LLU conferences going forward should maybe do this with with others. It's really nice to remember that the devs we see as big names were just hacking things together at first and it wasn't some great plan from the start, it's very inspiring and motivational. If not a 1 on 1, maybe just a talk with 2 or 3 speakers talking about getting into dev like a podcast style thing with questions from the audience after a warm up.

Gavin Taylor at 19:35 on 12 Jun 2019

was really interesting to hear Taylors journey and how laravel came to be.

but I think the praise needs to go to Jonty for doing a great job as interviewer. from the research he must have done before hand to dig out the old posts that helped guide the questions and it showed in the relaxed responses from Taylor. sometime Q&A interviews are a bit disjointed from just going over a list of random questions but this flowed great.

Gavin Taylor at 19:27 on 12 Jun 2019

I saw this talk at PHP Yorkshire so knew what was coming but was really good to see the talk adapted to the Laravel audience and some slightly different ways to solve the same problem using a different framework. I think there were also a couple of new bits or bits I missed last time so was good to listen to it again and update my notes.

Gavin Taylor at 19:20 on 12 Jun 2019

really enjoyed this talk, some great points to think/talk about with my team as we make a start on our own machine learning project.

Gavin Taylor at 19:17 on 12 Jun 2019

cant really add anything others havent already said but wanted to submit some feedback

really good overview of laravel events, talk presented really well, and the interactive demo was a great touch, would not have guessed this was your first time speaking at a conference! well done.

Peter Fox at 19:16 on 12 Jun 2019

There was nothing really new to me as such in this talk yet I still found it presented in a way that kept me interested and engaged. I think it's a really good talk that covers webhooks well that everyone who hasn't dealt with webhooks before must listen to. I even gleamed two new bits of new info personally, being able to run replays with ngrok (I've used ngrok, just not replays) and that actually, processing the signature on the queue instead of during the request and then passing to a queue was a better option which I will likely be doing going forward. So in all a really good talk that I walked away learning a little more about something I thought I was fairly wise of.

Gavin Taylor at 19:14 on 12 Jun 2019

Im not an aws user so want expecting to get much from this talk, but it was a really interesting journey of taking a site and getting it to work on a FaaS solution.