PHP UK Conference 2012
24 - 25 Feb 2012
at Business Design Center
Talk comments
Wasn't convinced by intentionally not presenting points on slides. I find it useful to be talked through a list in order. But the info was top notch, a good introduction to the changes in PHP 5.4.
To say I never enjoyed it would be a lie but I did feel it was a fairly shameless punt of their Enterprise solution, all the awesome features are enterprise only.
Solid talk!
@James There's only so much you can fit on a slide, you need to find concise examples that are not only demonstrative, but that are also not completely boring.
Language localization is a great example IMO, and Mum/Mom a well known en_US/en_GB difference that can fit easily on a slide :)
Interesting talk, but should skip installation details etc.
Felt that it leaned more towards "realtime communications" than "realtime data". Would be interesting to hear more about websockets/socket.io VS XMPP. It's now fully cross platform, and might be more future-proof. Speaker mentioned only briefly.
Excellent talk, probably my top pic at the conference. Would like to see an extended / more in depth talk in the future.
Since this was the speakers first presentation I'm throwing in a comment in addition to the rating.
Very interesting topic, very poor presentation.
Too much fumbling around, looking at raw data-dumps and incomplete websites. I would definitely start off by showing the application (more polished) and clearly demonstrate what it is supposed to do, then show a clear presentation of how this was achieved. The data-dumps we kept seeing could just as easily be slides with screenshots. Also too much non-related sidetracks / personal notes.
I really hope the presentation can be whipped into shape, because I do believe it would make an interesting talk if it's wrapped and executed better.
Head and shoulders above the other talks - a real professional edge. The content was fascinating and the delivery very engaging.
Practical, interesting, well delivered.
This was a really very interesting talk that has prompted a lot of discussion in our team. I think if you say that your devs are commiting and releasing straight to live, you need a bit more on that, like in practice how you do feature flags and so on, but overall well worth an hour of any developer or sysadmin's time.