PHP UK Conference 2017
16 - 17 Feb 2017
at The Brewery, London
Talk comments
I actually thought this *wasn't* going to be all that interesting - the typical "hey guys, none of us knows everything, and it's okay to admit it" impostor syndrome talk - but in the event it turned out to be just great (IMO). Perhaps it's because I come from a Latin/Greek/linguistics background so I was pretty much the ideal audience for this kind of thing, but I think it's *fascinating* to examine the terminology of our field and how, in so many cases, it seems to have been randomly plucked out of the air, in a manner highly likely to confuse an outsider. For no real reason! We could probably do a lot better at explaining what we do to outsiders, if we put our minds to the language we choose to describe it. So yeah, a really good and thought-provoking keynote, I thought.
This acronym is well known for a reason - really understanding the five pillars of SOLID will certainly make you a better coder, and the time spent going through them was well spent. Good clear presentation with the right amount of jokes, well done.
Not the speaker's fault - but I was in the "overspill" room, where we could see the slides but not a video of the speaker. This combined with a rather heavy Spanish accent and some pretty technical content made it hard to work out exactly what was going on at points. However the subject matter was interesting and the guy clearly knew his stuff!
Testing shouldn't be hard to get started with, but so often it is, due to psychological hurdles that are hard to surmount for some reason. This clear and accessible presentation should help anyone get further down the path towards full TDD - while not being a waste of time for current practitioners either!
Interesting, confidently presented, made me think "yes, this is what a great PHP developer and their process should look like".
Enjoyed this. The basic takeaway seemed to be "if you approach development the right way, you can make anything work for you, even Wordpress". A good primer in how to put proper dev tools and techniques front and centre, no matter what you're working on, then.
A bit fuzzy/feelgood for my tastes, but Eli is a clear and witty communicator and the message is basically a good one - it's the people that matter, not the latest framework or TLA. So let's think about people more.
Thnx
A well-presented set of slides which covered considerable ground with care.
It would be great to have the slides uploaded somewhere as they would be a very useful reference right now!
Enjoyable and confidently presented talk. I just wish I worked in a big enough team for proper code reviews to be a real possibility!