PHPBenelux Conference 2014
24 - 25 Jan 2014
at Hotel Ter Elst
Talk comments
Interesting workshop, easy to follow. PhpStorm has too many features to cover in such a short timespan, as Maarten indicated at the start, but it was dealt with nicely by asking the audience which topics they find the most interesting to dive into.
Learned many bigger and smaller things about PhpStorm which I didn't know; there appears to be no bounds to its functionality :) Even though we didn't have time to go through all the topics, Maarten provided a github repo containing the complete presentation, as well as well-prepared tutorial assignments to do later.
I've only one small remark: considering the amount of OSX users, more focus on the correct Mac shortcuts would be nice :)
Been using PHPStorm for a while, but never sat down to 'read the manual'.
Some awesome 'tips & tricks' in this workshop! And a complete downloadable tutorial that I can use to follow along and check out when I get back home.
It went really fast though, Maarten mentioned that there was enough content for 12 hours, felt like it.
Also I felt like a second class citizen as an OS X user, couldn't replicate some functionality simply because I didn't get the shortcut.
Possible improvement might be to get attendees to demo / shout out their own best features (someone mentioned CMD + ~, which is awesome, I would suggest 'pstorm' command).
Or a 'Code Kata' style follow along, to get navigation 'in the fingers'.
Ask the OS X users to find the accompanying OS X shortcut and shout it out after your story.
Just a little more interactivity could liven up the workshop.
All we saw was how to create an extension with functions. The following was not covered: constants, INI options, classes, play with streams or change the engine behavior. I think the amount of material is too big for a 3h tutorial and the bar was set quite high in the tutorial description. On top of that the speaker jumps pretty fast from code to slides and back, making it sometimes impossible to follow. For those reasons I decided to give 2 starts.
I think this could be a great tutorial if the speaker has more time (6h?) so he can see more material, and if he leaves more time to absorb code/slides.
Great workshop from Keith. It was detailed, in-depth from start to finish. Despite the minor dependency mishaps everything went fluid and it was easy to follow.
He didn't rush through the workshop which gave us enough time to keep up. The fact that he used a real project as an example was great and gave us a good sense of what kind of numbers we can expect.
The workshop worked out for beginners as well as intermediates from my point of view.
And let's not forget the upbeat way of presenting.
I really liked this workshop, I know more about jenkins now than when I walked in. I'll definitely put into practice CI, it's been on my TODO list for way to long and now I just have no excuses left ;)