New Zealand PHP Conference 2014
27 - 29 Aug 2014
at Victoria University
Talk comments
Demo'd vey well how terrible Blockify looks as a tool. I love gizmos too (as well as PHP), but felt this was a little chaotic and didn't really get much out of it.
Ben puts on a top notch presentation no doubt, and I enjoyed it, but would have been good to see this go beyond very basic security fundamentals - though I guess we all need reminders of the pitfalls of overlooking these basics.
Enjoyed this one, was great seeing a basic web GIS app in the making, and was very interested to see some of the base level features of OpenShift, I've signed up already!
I straddle the lines of project/staff management and development and I found much of the topic to be directly relatable and useful. Felt it could have been a little more targeted to "bottom up" ideas/concepts given the audience was likely largely a developer crowd.
Overall I managed to takeaway a few Angular gems from this workshop, so it was worthwhile. However I felt the workshop was somewhat stifled by a very mixed level attendance, where there was poor understanding/ability with some of the base level requirements to work through the workshop content - it took a long time to get the entire group up and running. I'd suggest it would benefit in future by setting some pre-requisites for attendees, possibly with it being more targeted to either beginner or intermediate level based on those requisites.
The only other thing I'd suggest is a bit of an overview of the core concepts, the tools, and justifications for using certain vendor packages, particularly how they relate and add to the core (i.e. ui-router vs ngRoute)
Like I say, overall I was happy with it, and enjoyed getting a look into some mature angular code, thanks Nate!
Having worked remotely for the majority of of web career, near on 8 years now, this talk was something I strongly related with. While much of it was concerned with lessons I have learnt the hard way over the years, it was great to hear some alternative solutions and ideas for dealing with communication and staff sanity in physically isolated environments. Thanks Shaunak, I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Was great hearing some of the history of PHP, and definitely gave a good perspective, and a deeper understanding on the state of things in 2014, and how it got to where it is today. I'm a PHP die hard, but it gave me a much renewed respect of the language and all the pitfalls & challenges that are faced by the core development team.
Got some good background on hypermedia here, would have liked to have seen some more specifics and justification for some of the concepts proposed for implementing hypermedia services. As a topic it was extremely well aligned with my current direction though, and gave me a a good insight into some of the fundamentals, and where I need to be doing some additional research.