PHP UK Conference 2017
16 - 17 Feb 2017
at The Brewery, London
Talk comments
A journey I can relate to, as someone who also transformed from being an Open Source contributor (in my case Moodle), to being employed in the back of those contributions.
Really interesting talk, some new interesting ideas :)
Great talk - SOLID is an area that I've been partly implementing by accident, but certainly encouraged to look into using more of the principles in future.
A good overview of what smoke tests are and why you want to use them. Some of the detail may not be replicable in all stations, but still had many valuable insights.
Great encouragement to fully embrace Test Driven Development - will certainly be trying harder to write my automated tests first in the future (rather than after the code is finished).
Interesting insight into the internals of what happens between saving your PHP script and seeing the rendered output in our browser.
Great overview of where webserver technology has come from and where it could be going. Looking forward to reading the slides again to pick up the bits I didn't take in the first time though.
Great to learn about the PHP Community - it is a language I have used for many years (as part of the Moodle community), but this is my first time at a PHP event.
At first I was thinking "are you serious" then half way through I was thinking "he's really not selling it to me." At the end I was like "okay I've actually been doing this all along." I'm a PHP developer that uses Laravel (see what I did there) and we always end up installing 50% more packages than the base install. Very eye opening talk.
Important central idea - questioning the jargon we use: where it comes from, what it means and why we should all be a bit more open to around and explaining it to those who look confused.
But, the presentation fell a bit flat. Maybe it was too early in the morning after the social, but many of the animated gifs felt like punchlines that just didn't register.