phpday 2019
10 - 11 May 2019 at Hotel San Marco

Fantastic workshop. If anyone wants to learn more about how PHP works behind the scenes then I strongly recommend this going along to this.

This talk really resonated with my experiences as a female conference speaker.

However I missed the part in your abstract about “What this says about the PHP community.”, really interesting data, but what does it say about the PHP community? Not sure.

I’m curious and excited to see where this project goes in the future, and loved the way you presented the data in a clear and engaging way.

? Funny, engaging, informative, brilliant.

I love the way you present, and how you had the story in the beginning and how you tied that into BC breaks. Your introduction really made the talk for me. The way you explain why it’s important before you explain the how, beautiful. How you engaged the audience with the quiz and how you showed the useful tool that you built!! Got something to play with, got some things to take into account going forward.

What I got the most out of this talk was all the little things one doesn’t realize is a BC break but may actually be, I’ll look closer during code reviews of our libraries now. And use your tool. Essentially you made me a better programmer with this talk, and you’re an amazing story teller. There’s a reason we hear you speak so much at conferences, you’re just so great at it.

Thanks.

“What can we learn from this?”

The way you make people think on our own by asking that question without an answer several times in the talk and then end with the same question is amazing.

I saw this talk before, it made me think back then and it made me think now. About communication, MVPs, architects... All these things we all need but often struggle with. These lessons should not be new to us but somehow we keep repeating our own mistakes. Having talks like this helps a lot with that.

The way you presented in a clear way and the stories that you had were just great. I’d not change a thing.

Super nice talk delivered in a great way, as usual, from Marco.
I agree with Antonello: quiz part was nice.

I liked hearing the story and real use cases and how you can have modules in an app and how that is similar to Microservices as its all about decoupling code.

However; This talk has a lot of potential to grow and I was missing more “meat”. I would love to hear about how you would go about splitting it into real Microservices if you did that, and why that would be a bad idea. And why sometimes a monolith is good decoupled code. You did have some of that in your examples; but it was mainly some refactoring I’d like to see more architecture and concepts.

Your energy on stage and the way you presented very clearly was great; you’re a natural on stage. Work on your talks more and tell more stories as you seem like a natural storyteller - Then I think you can be an absolutely amazing conference speaker. Would love to hear more of your talks in future, the way you present is engaging.

This talk was perfect! As someone with a long ongoing project of (in my eyes) high quality, I rarely get things from talks that I can go home with and implement at work, but I did here. Your build up of the talk kept me engaged and your way of presenting giving both the theory and then a real example was a really good plan. The way you teach is great. I’d not change a thing about this talk and would recommend everyone to see it.

Thanks :)

Great talk! Funny and entertaining, but Rasmus also explained some historical decisions and he had a very important message: That at the end, the tool doesn't matter that much, but the result and what you do.

Quite intriguing topic and overall very well presented. Only real criticism I can make is that with the collected dataset a lot of different analyses could be made (for instance trends year over year), yet the presentation focused mainly on possible gender bias and geographical distribution. The speaker mentioned the work is still in progress, so perhaps in a future version of this talk further this could be explored further.

As a side note, the speaker couldn't speak loudly because she was feeling a bit unwell, but there was constant noise as people were leaving and entering the room all the time, which I thought was a bit rude.

Rector is surely a tool worth a try, but the talk could be more explicit on how to use and configure it, so maybe a bit too short