PHP North West 2008
22 - 23 Nov 2008
at Manchester, UK
Talk comments
Slick, honest, humourous and well-paced presentation. Pleasures, perils and pitfalls of rushing an app to market when time is of the essence.
Good use of timeline software to pace the story of how it had been anticipated, how it was, and how it ought to have been.
Nice to see a talk about best practice techniques and the benefits of iterative programming. Good talk, lots of background and some humour.
It takes some guts to edit code in front of an audience too!
I know my regexp but thought I'd stick around as iteration always helps - and as GingerDog said - that named placeholder syntax was a surprise so I learned something new too.
A very coherent, well presented talk with lots of practical examples. Seeing the performance boost you get from these simple steps was pretty stunning too. I look forward to putting the practices described to use.
Totally absorbing talk, even though the thought of doing something like that myself, has no appeal.
Its fantastic that there are people who can cover this kind of stuff for the benefit of so many developers.
Seeing code changed is a much clearer way to demonstrate theories. However, I think its too difficult for a single speaker to pull off. Enlisting a coder to perform the edits whilst the speaker ..um speaks, or showing video captures of the coding is a neater way to get it accross.
Nice to meet Stefan, and I enjoyed the impromptu Symfony Q&A.
Enjoyable talk, but I felt the examples should have show results of the code a little more than they did.
Excellent talk. With such a lot to get through in the 30 min time slot I felt that this talk could have replaced some of the hour ones, giving the speaker time to 'explain' in a little more detail.
The highlight of the conference, Stuart's presentation was informative, witty, and relaxed, for what must have been a stressful project.
I loved that he could talk about what they did wrong. Having good, solid, reliable, reusable systems means that re-use is easy and development of new projects can be achieved quickly.
Enjoyed this alot. In retrospect I agree the title's misleading but I was that impressed with the academic depth I quickly forgot what I might have hoped to get from it.
I would love to read Zoe's dissertation in full if it's available.