Mage Titans Italy 2017
9 Jun 2017
at MotorK
Talk comments
Essential talk to kick off any event, especially for newcomers. Love the idea of getting everyone to think about what they learnt and how they can apply it using the handy 'fill in the blanks' phrase :)
Presentation was absolutely great. I enjoyed to listen and see technical and practical example on how to customize BlueFoot CMS with additional functionality. Code quality on slides are shown according to best practices. Never had a chance to review any of John's code before, however after this presentation I am sure that all his work is high quality deliverables.
The presentation was quite interesting and informative. From my opinion, presenter delivered information, it was quite hard to follow all of it, however main idea and examples were well described. Going forward, I would improve presentation slides with more images and less text so it might be easy to follow and process information while listening to the presenter. For the 30 minutes presentation I would also add couple of real life examples to bring and visualize business value which shows return on investment for automation activity.
It was interesting!
Loved the talk, loved the presentation. Especially the gaming element with the audience needing to guess what a specific monitoring graph was about added great interaction. Many interesting tips were given!
Personally, the content could be made a lot more technical, and that's what I hear from other experienced devs as well. However, newcomers still love this summary of what you can do from the CLI.
A non-tech talk with great input for freelancers. There were definitely some tips in there that shook me up, like not signing a NDA that you did not read :)
Queuing protocols has always been on my agenda to pick up on, but I never dived into it. Renato his talk offered a great (developer-oriented) introduction with some code samples. Plus he also showed that building your own solution is perfectly possible. Great value!
It was a bit hard to follow the talk, perhaps due to the pronunciation, or perhaps due to the tough matter. The story could have been lightened by adding lots of examples (testing a product checkout, how to test, tools to test).
One of my favourite talks of the day. Very well presented and cleverly delivered.
Not only were there some great advanced level tips provided, such as not using helpers, checking $context, composition over inheritance and object manager usage, but clear reasoning for why was given. Showing the 'wrong' way then the 'right' way was also a great touch.