Talk comments

Craig Duncan at 16:54 on 16 Feb 2018

Fantastic history of cryptography that gives an understanding of the topic in today's world

Mike Lehan at 16:53 on 16 Feb 2018

Solid intro to BDD really well presented. The examples made clear distinctions and separating intention from implementation is really good advice, makes the whole paradigm more more usable.

I think jumping into code sooner might have given it more momentum to start with, and then explain some of the concepts wrapped around how code is written. Also could be worth mentioning Codeception can parse and generate tests from Gherkin as well, so people don't need to jump ship if they already have a preferred testing tool but don't do BDD.

Mike Lehan at 16:48 on 16 Feb 2018

A very confident run down of performance profiling. It helped to already know about tools like New Relic, Datadog because these were skipped over quite quickly - could have chosen one to go into more depth. A bit surprised Blackfire wasn't mentioned too, as that seems to handle part of the profiling as well as general metrics. However the parts that were delivered, xhprof and xdebug were gone into in really good detail, examples that we can take and use straight away.

Mike Lehan at 16:46 on 16 Feb 2018

Whistle stop tour through new features, lots of which seem good. Might have been good with more details on the final release date, company secrets and all. Some of the sections relied on reading code on slides which was quite hard given the size, might have been better to go over the examples more slowly, maybe show some real world usage.

Mike Lehan at 16:43 on 16 Feb 2018

Strong talk and a good view of everything that Service Workers can accomplish. Provided information about browser compatibility which was useful. Push notifications might have benefited from an example of how one sends a push from their back end application, but that's an extra.

James Titcumb at 16:31 on 16 Feb 2018

Don't do much Symfony stuff, but this was well presented, the video demos were really slick and added a lot of value. Great explanation.

James Titcumb at 16:29 on 16 Feb 2018

Always interesting hearing from Derick. Very clear explanations of quite a complex thing. Nice!

James Titcumb at 16:22 on 16 Feb 2018

Awesome great advice. Love Gary's style!

Really good introduction to Jenkins pipelines and special kudos for the courage of doing this all as a live demo.

James Titcumb at 16:18 on 16 Feb 2018

Good coverage of syntax and use cases etc. Demo was a little slow, but copy and paste from pre-written text would've helped. Couple of bits I was unclear on, that I mentioned to you already. Otherwise good talk!