PHPBenelux Conference 2020
24 - 25 Jan 2020
at Ter Elst
Talk comments
I was expecting a completely different talk. Didn't really learn anything new. If you haven't been around symfony for some time I guess this is very useful ... but following it closely didn't expose a lot new to me.
It was also not easy to follow at the end of the room although the usage of a beamer in the middle of the room (more an organisational problem)
It's always interesting to hear the experience of other fellow developers. That said, at some point an example of an (agile) user story was used to show why agile doesn't (always) work ... but imho that example was a bad one, because for me it was more an epic than a story. There is no single way of doing stuff when it comes to planning and everything needs to be adapted to the customers and/or the developers.
Where I do join the speaker completely is to be in close collaboration with the business! How you then work, or what methodology you use is up to the team.
One of the best things of PHPBenelux are the socials and the food. This year was , compared to the other years, less good. I could be mistaken, but there were way less people at the conference... Also some sponsor booths were empty or not active ...
That said, I still had an amazing time and met new people which is the point of those socials.
And yes there are long waiting times for the food, reason why I (have to) skip the talk just before so I don't have that problem 🙃
There were definitely a few interesting points, but there were too many to fit into the available time and too many to actually remember. For that reason I hoped the slides would be made available here, but unfortunately that does not appear to be the case.
The topics Tim shared are very trendy these days and things to really know about. He went very fast through his slides due to time constraints, but if refined and presented more slowly I believe this can be a very interesting talk for those who don't know what immutable is or don't see the advantages of it!
These are the kind of stuff that I really like to hear and see. A developer, that in his day to day job has specific problems and comes with a solution and later shares it as a (open source) framework. I'm not a wordpress developer (far from it), but if someday I would have to do something with it, I would definitely try out Themosis. Thank you Julien for sharing this (what is seems) amazing framework! And good luck for the future!
Very entertaining, but a bit too long.
I wanted to have a crash course on k8s , and Bastian did a tremendous job at giving me one! A full day would have been better but I feel ready to discover more of it myself!
I was implementing the PHP League’s oauth2-server the week before the conference, so great timing for this talk!
I did find it was brought a bit dry, it is of course a rather technical topic. Maybe focus a bit more on the why or on a more A-Z scenario on adding auth to a php application?
When I was implementing the oauth-server, the grants and oauth2 spec where quite clear but I had a lot of questions about using sessions or not, how should I do this securely with single page application, how can I abstract google/fb login behind my own authorization server, ...
Maybe once it was clear you can implement oauth with "vanilla" js and php, for the other grants and flows maybe only focus on the differences when showing the code examples?
Mentioning the openid connect was very interesting, I didn't know much about that and will definitely check it out.
Nothing new for me, but that also meant I/we are doing it right!
But the reason I like the talk so much is the way the speaker presented it! Clear agenda up front and very well structured slides and to the point.
The little examples on how to configure Github were nice too!
I think this talk could be followed by a talk with a more in depth practical approach using the different tools out there. For example, what is possible in Github but not in Bitbucket/Gitlab etc and vice versa.
Anyway, if review is still something that you feel can be done better in your company, I highly suggest this talk!