PHPNW 2014
3 - 5 Oct 2014
at Manchester Conference Centre
Talk comments
Wonderful to see the creator delivering a 'demo' of using the product.
Having developed on Zend Studio, and now making the switch to WebStorm, I think this is now a must.
Excellent preparation by Jeremy for this tutorial, VM was packaged up with everything we needed, even a chrome session!
Talk section was well presented and structured. It did however go into some of the more advanced features before we had even looked at the basics from a practical point of view. I'm not sure how possible it is with this tutorial but mixing the practical in with the talk and doing a bit of one then the other would have helped my understanding better because of the way I learn best (I realise that differs from person to person)
I didn't really understand the practical when we got to it. There wasn't a specific goal to work towards with the tasks other than generally writing some tests and seeing them work. As a more junior developer I could have used a little more hand holding from the practical instructions.
As a talk I give it a 5, but as a tutorial I'm afraid I give it a 3.
Sold me on using HHVM, shame I have CentOS servers so sounds like a bit (not very much) work to setup.
Brilliant cover of the changes in PHP. clearly not a long enough slot though. would have loved a bit more time.
We can team together. good message.
Great tutorial from Derick, helped me get up to speed quickly with using MongoDB with no prior experience. Was neither too fast to follow nor too slow to stay focused on with perfect amount of practical breaks. Was very helpful when I got stuck on one of the tasks and a generally all round nice guy!
Made HHVM very accessible and the benefits of which very clear. Lively and enjoyable talk :-)
Good tips on agile software architecture with visual examples of what happens when things are not thought - loved the Lego example, relaxed
Need to write my APIs better.
also never considered a PHP website consuming it's own api. nice seperation of concerns.
Thank Lorna