PHP Community Conference
20 - 22 Apr 2011
at 3rd aVenue South
Talk comments
A very dense talk, without being pedantic. It will take me several weeks to follow up on all the ideas and tools mentioned in this talk.
Terry Chay doesn't need my comment; he already knows what I'm typing.
Despite the NDA, this was a fascinating look behind the scenes of a web app companies process for creating a massive system for a "space agency"
I enjoyed the discussion on how to reach people with different learning strategies plus the wireframing and process flows that are the invisible, but very useful, tools for creating great web apps.
I wish Sean could've talked all day -- just processing my notes from the 1 hour talk on the process and tools behind gimmebar will take me several days get through.
Oh, the only thing to critique is the title of the talk -- the "word on the street" was that people who didn't read the talk description felt mislead.
This was an excellent talk about a topic near and dear to me... Content Management Systems. I enjoyed the emphasis on how the human element is the hardest part, and that it is the details like good error messages that state how to fix the problem are key. It is easy to forget such things in the heat of programming.
Excellent presentation. ZF 2.0 looks very exciting!
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/tychay/living-without-linemen
Enlightening, albeit heartbreaking account of the issues and history of Unicode support (or lack thereof) in PHP.
A solid presentation on the fundamentals of building and consuming webservices. Even though I "knew" most of the things presented, getting all the pieces in one coherent and well presented talk took my understanding of web APIs to the next level.
Also, the parts about building web APIs were fantastic; I used to think I didn't do that, however in discussions after, apparently every AJAX call is really building a small API and should follow the best practices outlined in this talk.