PHP UK Conference 2011
24 - 25 Feb 2011
at Business Design Centre
Talk comments
Stuart's talk had an interesting topic with a great delivery. I could definitely relate to the subject matter, as I have been building and maintaining applications for a while.
The idea of using packaged components for sharing logic is a very good one. The points raised where Stuart had looked through other languages and seen where they are getting it right showed good knowledge on the concept rather than using a blinkered language specific viewpoint. Then going on to show the ways we can achieve this in PHP kept it very relevant and useful.
David's talk for me was on an interesting topic and excellently presented for most of the talk. The knowledge on the subject matter any other related concepts menitoned was clearly evident.
The demo wasn't the best part but eventually did get the point across.
It was a real shame that as stated, there was a slight lack of preparation becuase I really get excited when David is due to speak. I will definitely attend future talks from David as his knowledge and presentation skills are first class.
I thought that Sebastian's talk was well presented and the interesting slide's and analogies caught my attention early on.
However, for me I feel that the talk was more of an overview of the technologies that you could use to implement a testing and quality environment; and a few reasons why you should.
I would have liked to have seen more information on the different approches to quality and testing within established teams, and how quality and testing is used throughout the length of a project. This could have been combined with the mistakes and lessons learn along the way.
Maybe some data on how the improvements affected teams, and how you could go about introducing testing and quality into various team structures on working/current projects.
Good wrap-up about the tools possibilities and its evolution. As a daily Xdebug user, I really appreciated it.
I really enjoyed Ian's talk. All the elements were there for me; an interesting topic, clear and well-spoken presenting, live examples, and a perfect balance between the higher level theory and the actual ZeroMQ code.
Ian's ability and knowledge on the subject matter and related concepts was clearly visible.
And once again, I learned a lot from this talk. Rob does not disappoint, that's why I always attend his talks.
Interesting to see that you can gain performance by just removing pieces of code in the ZF codebase. I will try that out.
Most notable quote: only perform these optimizations if you can MEASURE the performance gain. If it doesn't have a great impact, don't bother.
Thanks for the valuable lesson, Rob.
I wanted a technical talk, I got one! Morgen convinced me to see his talk and I wasn't disappointed.
I learned so much, but the timing was limited. Dear conference organizers: please invite Morgan for a 3 to 6 hour workshop about advanced MySQL. Thank you !
Best talk of the day! I refused to inform myself about the topic because I wanted Ian to do his thing and educate me on the topic.
He that an awesome job. Not only did I learn what ZeroMQ does, it was brought with the relaxed, confident and yet academic style that typifies Ian.
I will definitely look into ZeroMQ for future projects.
I didn't find the topic that special and it was just one point that was proven. The lack of ambition in the talk was compensated by the style that Marco brings.
He's an experienced speaker who knows what he's doing. Even a less interesting topic is presented beautifully. The examples about his investor and his mom were brilliant, though !
Although I only give this talk a 3-star rating, I still look very much forward to future talks Marco will present.
Thijs' talk was well presented and extremely practical. It allowed you to go and get Varnish set up and then use it productively straight away.
As the subject matter was designed to cover all the basics of varish I think the content was excellent and clearly explained. I would be really interested in attending follow on "advanced" concepts and how varish is being used by various applications/companies.