Lone Star PHP Conference
29 - 30 Jun 2012
at Addison Conference Center
Talk comments
Good overview of ZeroMQ. Some more time could be spend on differentiating it from TCP / UDP on a basic, fundamental level. A bit more discussion comparing it with AMQP/RabbitMQ/etc would have been helpful as well.
Again, Joel was an excellent and knowledgeable speaker. I'd be happy to see him at every conference I go to.
Good talk. My company already implements the things discussed during the presentation, but even so there were still some insightful tidbits along the way. A really good overview of how software SHOULD be deployed!
When mentioning database deployment you might want to give a nod to Liquibase. It's not perfect but it's better than manually doing the updates / rollbacks (plus it is very helpful when setting up development and testing environments).
The topic of mentoring - or really, any interpersonal topic - is one too often ignored at conferences. This talk was very helpful to me as I am now expected to start mentoring some of the new hires at my company.
The talk did drag a bit in the beginning but it sure paid off in the end. Excellent information during the talk itself and truly fantastic answers for the questioned posed afterward.
A good beginning overview of AWS.
The explanation of keys was important (kept me from using EC2 for a long time.)
The use of videos for the demo was a smart idea, and worked very well.
Going into these kinds of situations has very nearly made me give up coding entirely. These kinds of messes are just so incredibly horrible that it can be hard to know where to start cleaning up the mess.
The advice given here was exceptional and explained in great detail. Not only what to do, but why it should be done and what the expected result will be. It was so nice to know that someone else has not only felt my pain, but also has a good, solid plan to deal with it all.
Maybe next time I run into the writhing tentacles of Cthulhu I won't lose my mind. Maybe.
Well prepared presentation. Most MongoDB presentations lack PHP specifics, so that was a definite benefits.
Was disappointed that some of the topics in the description (Grid, Map Reduce) got dropped.
Great demo. I have sooo many new things to play with next week.
I'm really excited to see the K.I.S.S. principle applied to frameworks. I think you are on to something...
Not a bad talk (and one that is useful to everyone) but I was hoping for some more in-depth, complex material. The concepts covered were very basic, though it was great to see the revival of Samy as a real-world example.
Samy is my hero!
Sanitize parameters / use prepared statements / XSS / CSRF are always covered in these types of talks; having more focus on other vulnerabilities would have been great.
Wow! Great details. It seems so easy now, this is going to be as much a part of my workflow as Git.
The Grumpy Developer's delivery is rough, gruff, direct, and absolutely appreciated.
I was expecting a talk similar to the technical debt topic earlier in the day but focused on hardware/networking/etc. issues. Some of that was discussed, but the talk transcended that and went into areas such as coding standards. A little abstract to be considered "infrastructure" but absolutely spot-on nonetheless, and a necessary point.
It was also helpful to hear the discussion on how to bring these issues to management and help them understand that yes, sometimes we need to spend time and money fixing bad stuff.