PHP UK Conference 2011
24 - 25 Feb 2011
at Business Design Centre
Talk comments
To me it was definitely the most inspiring and interesting talk of the day (of those which I attended). Superb speaker
Very interesting talk; I really enjoyed it, despite Thorsten seemed very nervous at the beginning!
Well done!
Very good and useful talk
Very good talk
I loved it. Got me to think about my users!
I only saw parts of David's talk -- as always he is indeed entertaining. However, "this is german and will probably last 100 years... if it was french, it would probably surrender" hurts, it is misinforming and needs correcting: Nazi code was meant to wipe things out, burn people and books... The french never surrendered to this, an illegal goverment of traitors did (ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France). Anyway, David is a cool dude regardless of the silly remarks...
ps: I did find the command line debugging of the demo a bit boring (as my mum would actually).
I've been using xdebug at work and not really knowing what was going on, so the talk was great to bridge my gap. Didn't realise there were extensions to chrome and opera so shall be installing them :)
Great stories and topic Marco's delivery was clear and easy to follow. It got a little dry in areas, but I assume the jet lag didn't help it. A little more vocal character and inspiration ( aka sleep) would probably make it top class.
Funny video, that's about it. Martins take on the w3c/ browser / developer relation was misleading. His explanation of modernizer was flaky and ( in my personal opinion) on the wrong road. and his thoughts on the idea that developers will be able to code one project for all devices is idealistic and outdated compared to the rest of the community.
When he spoke about the html5 tags it would have helped to put everything into context of html history but what he did say about it was a very basic overview of each new tag and not in context to the rest of html's & w3c's history.
Would suggest that people read up on Andy Clarke and other leading people such as Mark Pilgrim (http://diveintohtml5.org/). Who do this talk with alot more knowledge and passion. If anyone ever gets the chance to listen to @patrick_h_lauke talk on html5, he covers the same topics as what Martin did but with no browser agenda in sight.
Didn't know anything about Varnish before attending and I am already loving it. Very good talk.