PHP Johannesburg - South Africa 2015
1 - 2 Oct 2015
at Blandford Manor
Talk comments
Jeremy's talk highlighted some new tools that I didn't know existed. Stuff that I will now go and research further. Was a good, informative talk.
Simon is very easy to listen to and he entertains the crowd well. Schema Design etc is not the topic i am usually interested in but i would be very happy to listen to other talks that Simon might present. :)
PS: I will also be reading up more on NoSQL because i did learn from this that it does actually effect what i do (more than i expected).
What Rafael talked about was something i also believe in so it was very good to hear someone else talk about it, especially on a stage.
Well spoken, easy to listen to and interacted well with the crowd.
It may have been interesting if he added more body to the "lizard" brain part of the talk. Perhaps the pros and cons of actually using that part of our minds as developers.
Awesome breakdown of what we are actually making the interpreter do. Very informative! Great talk!
I am actually interested to know what Jeremy's slides looked like before he changed the colours to show on the screen.
Stats on applications is not something to easily chat about, but our team immediately understood and saw the benefit of using StatsD & Graphite. So will be talking to the business.
PS: Drinking beer on the stage was pretty cool as well. :D
PPS: I think it would have been cool if he perhaps showed an actual live graph?
Thought provoking
Third talk of the conference and it looked like his first, very impressive indeed.
Well presented examples to explain what i can only believe would be crazy complicated to try figure out on our own. It was well explained to make it easy to take in.
Again the slides and their flow was very appropriate for the talk / the crowd spoken to.
Refactoring and rewriting is something that bites us all in the butt at one time or another. Bernhard has a decent approach on how you can deal with both of these in a way that may actually work. :)
This was his first talk i believe and he did seem a bit nervous, but the slides were well done, the pace was pleasant and the point came across just fine. I hope to see him on the stage more in the future.
I haven't worked with Wordpress for a few years and had though (due to what the internet said) that their security had taken a knock. This talk had fortunately shown, with proper examples, that this is not the case.
I also learned a bit more about how people my want to get into your site.
Managed to explain internal operations happening in PHP quite well. He brought accross the message very well. Great talk indeed!