PHPBenelux Conference 2012
27 - 28 Jan 2012
at Best Western Ter Elst
Talk comments
Nice intro to MongoDB. A bit too much for beginners.
Presentation was too much theoretical and does not provide real benefit for those developers that already have implemented REST interfaces.
Working remotely, I expected learning something...
Content too basic on the topic and the speaker couldn't handle very basic questions.
Missed too much real-life examples.
Perfect keynote! Congratulations!
Nice job, David -- you did a great job asking key questions in a humorous and engaging way: what will we build next with PHP? and how can we leverage it in a new world of technologies that may no longer be a LAMP stack? I know I, for one, am now considering if a PHP 5.4 version of my project may be a way to push PHP forward faster.
Jeroen did a fantastic job detailing the varied ways you can use PHP from a non-web -- i.e. CLI -- context, from parsing arguments to creating and managing daemons in PHP. The slides were done quite well, and the examples were easy to grasp, yet simple in nature, making them easy to absorb. My only complaint is that I'd love to see a full workshop on this topic!
I think there were some great points made in the talk: establishing good routines, and having effective communication are absolutely critical to allow remote working to succeed. However, I'd have liked to see more emphasis on what constitutes good communication -- how and when to use things like skype, IRC, and IM, how to manage conference calls, etc. These are the sorts of skills developers need to succeed not just when working remotely, but in-house as well.