PHPBenelux Conference 2016
29 - 30 Jan 2016
at Ter Elst
Talk comments
A very inspirational talk, it was my first time I saw Cal on stage.
As a co-organizer of our local PHP community it was nice to get some first hand experience from one who already knows all about it.
I think your talk covered too many things and took place on too many different levels (ranging from very abstract and general, to very concrete and specific and anything in between). I could distinguish at least three different talks that were mixed together.
The first one was a talk giving a comprehensive overview of what DevOps entails, the second one was a talk about DevOps tools and practices, the third one was an introduction to server management for developers.
My central point of feedback: Focus on giving one talk ;-)
Secondary to that, but still quite important: pay more attention to your talk structure. Where the talk can be complex and contain lots of fine grained points, the structure should be simple and easily understandable. Probably bringing focus to your talk will already improve your talk structure a lot.
Your talk contained a couple of great take-aways. Unfortunately many of them got lost in the vast amount of information you were sharing with your audience.
I liked getting an overview of systems that I don't regularly use. Sometimes it was hard to follow, as Mariusz tended to whisper or talk under his breath. Thanks for the talk!
I loved your talk and it was my personal favorite of this years PHPBNL edition. Not because of the amount of new knowledge, but because of your excellent live coding, the way you cut refactoring into pieces and the ease with which you explained concepts and principles. Very good job!
Matthias is very easy to listen to. Nice to recap these principles. Thanks for the talk!
Fun session, thanks for the demo :)
One of the best talks of this years PHPBNL IMO. Easy to listen to and great examples (even though at some points I would have liked to see more actual code or an editor). Thanks!
Great job at evangelising your own product. I know it can be scary and you did it nevertheless. It's not something we will use, but interesting and nice to see you talk about something have a drive for! :)
no problems here, though directions given where a little difficult(for newbies)
Great talk, packed with information. Thanks!