Talk comments

Gareth Ellis at 10:31 on 22 Feb 2017

This talk was well delivered and contained some good insights into the process of introducing tests to your development workflow, and a practical way to work towards a TDD approach.

Gareth Ellis at 10:30 on 22 Feb 2017

An engaging and funny story, delivered superbly as usual by Mr Hockin. A great day/conference-ending keynote.

Ayan Ozturk at 09:45 on 21 Feb 2017

excellent talk. thank you.

Paul West at 17:06 on 20 Feb 2017

While Alena was trying hard I think this subject was too basic for the crowd, like others have said I don't think a talk at this level is needed at such a conference. If Alena had started at her slides that she ran out of time to present then I think I would have all got a lot more out of it.

Paul West at 16:54 on 20 Feb 2017

Great talk, I hadn't come across code analysis before so learnt so much from this talk. I would have loved to have seen a demo of one in action.

Paul West at 16:39 on 20 Feb 2017

Best talk of the conference IMO, presented really well, great information, the only thing I would have liked is for you to have had more time to go into some of the technical setup of automated deployment.

Fun speaker, though he made me feel very old if he wasn't even alive at the time the first PHP (pseudo-) frameworks were being released. Also I'm pretty sure "agnotism" isn't a proper word! The general concept was very worthy though - more power to the FIG's elbow, I say.

Very calm and assured presenter giving a really good account of his (eminently sensible) approach to defusing a bug-related crisis. Some excellent tips for anyone to be found in here I'm sure.

Alena was great but this was really "OOP for Beginners" and I think "Demystifying OOP" probably gave an expectation of "so, you've been working with OOP for a while - but aren't there still a few things that could be clearer?" As it was, things really started getting interesting for me in the last 5 or 10 minutes. If only we'd started from there, and had time to go on to all the interesting "further avenues of exploration" that the last slides were mentioning!

You can tell Ciaran is an experienced trainer - just the right level of material for the crowd, presenting confidently at exactly the right pace. Still reckon it should be called BDDDD though...