Northeast PHP 2012
11 - 12 Aug 2012 at Northeast PHP Boston

It takes a certain skill to both provide an overview of a topic and also reveal tips and tricks that even an experienced user might not know. Great talk. I am still not confident that I could deploy memcached, but I'll certainly give it a try!

Good stuff, knowledgeable guy.

This was an awesome talk. I agree with Bill - You don't need to be a noob to get something from this talk. There are many technically competent web developers out there who struggle because of things like not properly setting expectations with a client or not taking a percentage up front, etc.

I'm finding this trend funny that some people are giving speakers a lower rating due to "not enough detail". The objective of almost any 45-minute talk is to give you just enough detail so you understand the importance of the topic and leave wanting more. If you leave with that feeling, THAT'S A GOOD THING!!!

Maybe it's me, but it just seems wrong to take points away from someone because they left you wanting more.

If you want a more detailed explanation, check out Jen's book "Website Strategy & Planning", check out her lynda.com videos (she gave everyone a ticket for a free subscription) or head to Harvard Extension School and sign up for one of her classes. Or EMAIL HER! Her email address is on the last slide.

I enjoyed the talk. It seems to me like the chatter before the actual talk was a perfect example of what the talk was meant to illustrate. I thought "Mr. January" did a great job of explaining what the benefits from a community gives you, but maybe he was preaching to choir. This would be an awesome talk for some intro to web development students. Also, next time, bring some blue elephants to hand out :-) I'd still be willing to throw in for a kickstarter to put in an order. No idea on logistics of distribution but we're smart people, we'll find a way.

Thanks for the awesome talk. I'm going to put your tips to good use.

Good information.

This was a great overview/demo showing how FLOW3 allows you to:
-Focus on business domain functionality rather than technical features
-Use special tags to add logic directly in your HTML templates
-Keep Model, View and Controller separate
-Use dependency injection to dynamically load only the classes/resources you need at runtime rather than wasting time loading libraries that you aren't even using (makes your pages load faster)
-Use aspect-oriented programming concepts to separate out functionality that spans the different modules of your business domain, such as error/debug logging, and keep them from getting tangled together, allowing for cleaner and more maintainable code
-Get help from a large, helpful, accessible community

Note: I've never seen FLOW3 before this talk, but if you're even somewhat familiar with OOP and MVC in PHP, this talk made a lot of sense. I would love to see this framework represented at the next BostonPHP Framework Bakeoff.

Thanks Jochen for showing us how powerful FLOW3 can be. I'll have to make some time to try it out and see if it works for me.

It would be great if we could do a more detailed talk on this at BostonPHP. Contact me at [email protected] if you're interested.

great talk!