PHPNW 2014
3 - 5 Oct 2014
at Manchester Conference Centre
Talk comments
Given the hangover slot, Davey did a great job presenting rather technical content in a clear fashion. It might not have been for everyone, but it was nice to go back to my university days.
A really interesting talk filled with a number of abstract concepts. I think it could have benefited from additional time, but it raised some good points regarding design patterns that we adopt without real thought given to the problems we're trying to solve. Perhaps another blog series?
I thoroughly enjoyed Stefan's talk - he is clearly gifted for presenting. There was a good balance to the informative and humour and I walked away feeling I'd learned something. My only suggestion is that it could have used more examples, but otherwise the slides were timed nicely.
Quite an interesting talk, although there wasn't quite as much Composer content as I'd like, as Jenkins featured much more heavily than I was expecting. However, it was interesting to see how Satis could be utilised with a private codebase - definitely food for thought.
The talk itself was highly accessible, even for novices such as myself. Ben was clearly comfortable in front of the room, and the relaxed nature of the talk helped convey the content of the presentation. I came out inspired to look into Magento much more in the future.
A great talk which was well paced and entertaining, with easy to understand examples reinforcing the concepts.
Had good takeaways of what I could do as a developer to protect and reduce the risk of these attacks.
Great talk which has got me thinking about what my tests tell me about the code I'm writing.
Great talk to introduce a lot of tools to consider using during development. There were a number here that have now made it on to my list of things which I need to try out.
At times this talk did just feel like a long list, although for most of the tools, they could probably do with a talk just to themselves!
I found the talk a little UML heavy, which lost its relevance to me a little.
The rest was great, including the lego house representation. I was hoping for more of the general advice though.
Raised some good points (especially refactoring versus re-coding), and the example-driven talk made the content much clearer. My only real comment is that I was expecting the scope to be broader than just refactoring (although important in its own right).