Talk comments

Jarno lasseel at 14:08 on 26 Jan 2020

I really liked this talk, especially the speaker and how he brought it. Very clear, good structured talk
I also think the intro may have been a bit shorter, but I was also taking allot of notes all throughout this talk.
This will definitely help convey the message to do these kinds of things more back in the company and help persuade people better.

Also thank you for speaking up against the people that where talking allot, not all speaker are willing to do this.

Jarno lasseel at 13:58 on 26 Jan 2020

A good speaker and a good talk, clear and informative. Allot of practical tips and things to do / worry about. Also a great reminder that security is a never ending task

I really liked the funny tone and entertaining way of trying to deliver your talk, much appreciated at the last timeslot of the conference.

However : one point of critique : it was a lot to digest in around 50 minutes time (and you had to speed up considerably to make your time count), so perhaps either find a way of speeding it a bit up (without sacrificing understandability of course :) ) or just cut a few examples from your talk.

Either way, great stuff.

Jarno lasseel at 13:56 on 26 Jan 2020

This speaker has allot of enthusiasm, and therefore it wasn't all that clear what she said. I suggest working on calm english speaking. Try not to run past yourself as we say in Belgium.
There where a few technical issues with the beamer, and it was good that after a few minutes the speaker tried to move on without the slides and the beamer. While technical staff tried to resolve the issue.

This had potential, but I also would have liked more of the PHP and Neo4J examples, when and how to use.

What is it with Americans and giving talks at conferences? They are very good at engaging an audience and getting their points accross. Together with Cal Evans and Larry Garfield (to name a few), Andy Snell is also adept at speaking about technical stuff, which is not always evident.

Andy manages to give clear examples and solutions to common problems which all of us can relate to.

On the subject itself : it is certainly something I will delve deeper into, so thank you for pointing us in that direction.

Jarno lasseel at 13:51 on 26 Jan 2020

Interesting talk, and I still learned things about this topic. Most cache options are little known things so it was a good introduction to the general idea.
It indeed felt a little dry, and I was hoping for some practical examples at a certain point in there.
Overall interesting talk

Well done for your first big conference talk.

In all honesty, you were a bit hard to follow sometimes, with your accent making you sometimes hard to understand. You also had to backtrack a few times, adding to you being hard to follow. Do not take this personally though, I completely understand (I'm due to give my first talk myself in a month's time).

The subject itself is not an easy one to give a talk about, but you managed to get your points trough, and at the very least you made more than a few attendees gaze at the screen while you were demo-ing your tools, and that's always a good sign :)

Keep on talking on conferences and user groups - you obviously have a talent for it . Keep nurturing it.

Jarno lasseel at 13:46 on 26 Jan 2020

A good and fun trip down the road of the ElePHPant, and a very good speaker!

I liked this talk a lot, it was given by a passionate speaker, who sure knows her stuff. Live demo-ing is always a coinflip at best, but you handled your laptop crashing quite well.

I already use PHPCS during development, but it was nice to see some examples of configuring it to your own wishes (sniffs).

Well done.

As a developer trying to bring CI/CD into the foreground at our company, your insights provided some much needed leverage to use. I agree though that the intro could have been a bit less about the Why, so the talk itself could concentrate more on the How.

A good talk nonetheless and well delivered.