PHPBenelux May 2011 meeting (Breda - NL)
10 May 2011
at E-sites B.V.
Talk comments
Presentation was reasonable although at times it felt a bit tedious when going over basic stuff.
After having missed the talk quite a few times I finally got a chance to see it and it didn't disappoint.
Well rounded talk touching all the key pain points and possible solutions.
This was the second time I saw this talk, but this time I was mostly sober. And maybe due to that fact or the fact that my memory had left me I still picked up a thing or two again (Doctrine and Phing features). It was also great to see the talk in Dutch this time. And Harrie definitely knows how to make the subject live among the crowd with great visuals and some good jokes.
Very good talk in which many of Phings power is covered, I loved to see the live examples. And just like DragonBe said, keep the examples small and DRY. It definitly got me interested to run Phing sometime soon instead of Ant. The less packages on my server the happier I feel, so if I won't need Java I can save myself a few updates of server software :)
Very nice talk to see so many good ideas, the pace was a little too fast. But that was mostly due to the timeslot of 30 minutes. Also when doing this talk for a larger audience I would prefer the "You should"-way instead of the "We do"-way.
Overall a very great talk and with a little work this can be conference worthy and lead to great discussion among developers!
it gets better every time I see it. Rock on!!!
still an awesome talk that everyone should have seen at least once (this was my third(?) time ;) )
and yay for mentioning Doctrine Migrations ;)
Interesting to see what E-sites does to maintain quality for their clients. Part of the presentation was hard to read as dragonbe also mentioned.
Nice introduction to phing and to see working examples on how to run and configure a build.xml file.
But a couple of hints:
1. don't stand in front of the projector or in front of your slides
2. use either another background color for your terminal or use a movie in your slides
3. don't be nervous
Little hint: keep your phing targets small and DRY (saw a lot of similar lines running a target), use the phing-force Luke!
Interesting talk, felt at times a bit as a sales pitch for developers, yet was interesting to get a honest look at the tools and processes used inside e-sites.