PHP East Midlands Unconference 2017
25 Nov 2017
at Queens Building
Talk comments
I think Aaron did well considering the technical issues but it was sometimes hard to work out what was being talked about as there were lots of components involved and lots of talk about them. Perhaps use of the whiteboard may have made things a bit clearer but I'm new to a lot of the concepts involved around containerisation so was hard to follow at times.
Really interesting discussion on the role of developers and stakeholders in BDD, and how this differs from TDD. This was a great format to hear opinions and discussion that formed around it.
Great introduction to the Slim framework - I've seen Rob give the talk several times and always get something new from it, or remember something that I had forgotten from the previous time.
Interesting insight into research
I think Adrian did very well describing a problem encountered and a quick solution found. While there were possibly better ways to approach the problem, I was interested to hear about the use of this tool (which I hadn't heard about before) and its application for RAD & fast problem solving when needed.
Answered a few big gaps for me
I've seen a few of Rob's talks on Slim before, they are always fun talks, and literally every time I see Slim I want to migrate everything to it, great talk.
really fun talk about a topic I really enjoy, has I not been so far back I would have participated :D
also, I think something like this would be awesome for a full hour
I think this talk was just a bit all over the place, the chap presenting seemed to know what he was talking about but I think he just needs to add a bit more structure to the talk, and also stay on track with a format. there were technical faults with the projector (not the speaker's fault)
I ranked this two stars, but I think the speaker should 100% keep speaking.
Really interesting way to talk about problem solving and decision making under pressure and during a serious data problem, though I sometimes found the story a tiny bit hard to follow as to what was going on, or which data was meant to be corrupt, what the patches were patching etc - so if this is cleared up a bit to make the story much clearer I think this could be a really good session. It was still very valuable as it stood!