PHPBenelux Conference 2010
29 - 30 Jan 2010
at Best Western Hotel Ter Elst, Antwerp, Belgium
Talk comments
I enjoyed this talk. It was a good balance of the basic concepts followed by a trivial implementation, followed by a good real world example. This format really encourgaed me to look at the slides again and check out the code.
Although not a Symphony user, the last demonstration intrigued me. Perhaps I will try and use the tool in a future project.
As far as I'm concerned this was the best presentation on the event. Great presentation style, great slides :), and an original topic that we all face with from time to time.
An excellent talk. As a developer I thought this talk wouldn't really engage me. Totally wrong. It was great hearing how things 'should' work in a nerd heard. It gives me something to compare my future employers to when looking at prospective workplaces and a philosophy to aspire to when I take on the responsibility in the future.
I agree with other commenters that the talk should have just been named couchDB & php. But the talk was a great overview of couchDB, what it is and what it's not. solid stuff.
Great talk. lots of practical information on writing regexes the right way.
I walked out of the room knowing I was certainly going to use some of those things in future projects.
Didn't mind the stabs at other languages, I interpreted as just poking fun a bit at the other languages.
The rest of the talk was a good solid overview of the PHP community, and other stuff. It reminded me a lot of Andrei's talk last year on DPC though.
It seemed to lack a bit of energy though in the presentation, but perhaps that was more because it was early and I wasn't fully fully awake yet.
Very solid talk about SOAP and a few of the hidden "features". Great speaking style, and the right amount of in-depth info.
I would subtract one thumb because at the end he said he would skip a discussion segment of REST vs. SOAP. Yet in the following questions a held a rant/monologue about SOAP vs. REST. Also the demo he gave felt a bit unneeded to me.
However, because he had the most epic start of any presentation I've ever seen I really can't give him less then 5 thumbs up.
As with all of Cal's talks I've seen, this again was a very good and inspiring talk. Although the situation that Cal talks about is probably about Utopia, I'm pretty sure everybody can take some advantage of the talk by translating the beautiful world that's sketched to their own situation.
Never saw Rowan speaking but he made a superb graphical presentation, funny slides and code samples (all Frankenstein-style), and also clearly explains them all.
There wasn't much news on the horizon, except for one thing; I will finally get the order of steps and priorities right next time. And I bet that was the main goal of the presentation. Many developers will feel more comfortable after seeing this session because there will ALWAYS be legacy code.
Solid talk about working environments and their importance from the view of a developer. Great content, nice pacing and great tips when giving an overview of tools.
Bugzilla wasn't listed though as bug tracker, which made me sad. Bugzilla is just like that old smelly guy at the end of the bar that's always there. Part of the furniture. You wouldn't actually want to talk to him, but you'd miss him if he was gone.