PHPNW 2014
3 - 5 Oct 2014
at Manchester Conference Centre
Talk comments
Great talk!
It sounds like a very powerful and secure web server. Surprised that it's been around for that long and I've not heard about it. I'll be certainly be having a play soon!
This talk sneakily went way past the scope I expected and included an excellent OAuth 2 section. Good focus in the questions on adding additional components to your system based only on the need to solve your specific problems.
Good and funny, well thought out. The bottle of newky was just a prop!
There's a strong conflict between Agile (as commonly practised) and design up front (as per waterfall)... but each approach has strengths and weaknesses. Harrie explained how a small amount of design up front can help benefit a system designed in an agile environment (being able to write tests up front, and being able to visualise how the system will hang together, being able to model the effects of refactoring on paper before making code changes, etc) while limiting the sheer volume of design up front more commonly associated with waterfall.... taking the best elements from both approaches.
First live demo of the conference! As with previous talks, I got some great insights into how I should be using Xdebug.
Regarding PHPDBG, it seems that it's a new and unproven tool. I'd rather learn how to use an established tool better.
Fantastic talk, Jez is funny and engaging. Learned a lot!
A well planned out talk, covering lots of areas for package dependency that go beyond just Packagist. Was very useful to hear the background on some of the decisions and the reasons behind them. Gives a good starting point for implementing it myself.
The title made me expect something a bit more advanced than an intro to refactoring. Would have preferred longer examples with more advanced concepts.
Nice use of markers on the slides to know which version of PHP was being referenced. It was a bit fast paced for the tech level it contained, and there were a few assumptions (like knowing what GMP was) that made it easy to get lost. And too much time was spent on an edge case / suspected bug in Generators for a talk that was supposed to be an overview.
Probably worth reviewing the video at a slower pace to get more from it.
Great talk and some cool ideas behind what RAD means.