PHPNW12
5 - 7 Oct 2012
at Mecure Manchester Piccadilly
Talk comments
An excellent talk, with just the right mix of humour and detail at the end of the day. Rowan's style was great, delving back into terminal-based commands and appealing to the high-geek in all of us.
The choice of green-on-white text for the slides could have been an issue in other rooms but as this track had multiple decent screens throughout, everyone was able to see all they needed to. By the end of it I just wanted to run off and play with AWS!
An interesting talk, of benefit to anyone who saw it as it also made you reanalyse the state of your own favourite languages.
Saffire looks like it has the potential to be interesting, but has a very long way to go yet :)
Good comparison and explanation of some of the differences across versions, and how modular ZF2 will be (goodbye application bootstrapping!)
Some excellent highlights of the new goodies we get to play with in 5.4, summed up in a way that made them easy to digest. Also some great comparisons and stats across previous versions for performance - managed to get everyone in the room hunkering for an upgrade!
The first half was quite good and I thought he would elaborate on scalability issues etc but seemed to tail off into talking about his experiences using various third party components. The ORM statement was a little over-dramatic - people use ORMS because they get sick of having to code in their own mapping and data access layers. If you don't like the full blown stuff though you can always look into using a micro-ORM - they're not all evil!
Michelangelo is living proof of why a business needs to support Open Source. This talk reflects it very well and show how he and other leading companies has very well tied in those factors to lead the market.
Even being about business i think this talk is very relevant to developers, for 2 reasons: show them what to do and why to go into their own business and follow these teachings, and also give them arguments to push their companies into it.
I agree with a few of the other comments, the energy seemed to go out somewhere in the middle of the talk, the dramatic pauses became holes, not pauses. I know you have extreme energy and passion for this, I would like to see you scream this in the talks, let it out and wow us. Overflow, it will captivate the crowd. Congrats Mike!
One of my favourite talks. Case study really helped me to understand the subject. Thanks.
I liked this presentation and will make me think more in future about how I write APIs and handle feedback.
From the title I kind of expected this to be more about WHY someone should use Twig, or a demonstration of its features beyond the basics. Instead it seemed more like a tutorial on the general syntax, that seemed to just go on until time ran out. To be honest I could have done that at home reading the documentation.
I give it a neutral 3/5, given that it wasn't necessarily bad, but just seemed like one of Hugo's training sessions rather than a presentation about 'why Twig isn't your enemy'.
Some very interesting stuff in the talk - the potential for the technology is great, though as Nat explained, it's still in a very nascent state and has a long way to go yet.
That aside, I'm sure most people in the room went away thinking of ways they could incorporate this tech into current projects. A great smattering of humour helped everything to flow well. Good job!