PHPNW12
5 - 7 Oct 2012
at Mecure Manchester Piccadilly
Talk comments
Came to the talk thinking "what the actual ... is this", left with a blown mind. This has to be the most interesting PHP project at the moment :)
This talk would hit the spot as a key note for a conference. To make it better and more interesting switch some of the "in principle" stuff to actual real life examples.
The talk focussed too much on the static analysis tools and too little on the benefits of actually having another human being reading through the code.
Great talk, and a great demonstration of the power of open source tools when combined in a novel way. Really made me think and spurred discussions throughout the night.
Problems with the benchmarks and clear (and admitted!) bias sort of killed the buzz for me. That said, by the end of the talk I was considering setting up something on a "micro-computer" myself so I suppose something got through :)
Kudos for admitting the issues and proposing an open source approach to fix them!
Very interesting topic. Could do with more readable slides, though.
Nothing in this talk for a developer; just preaching to the choir.
What would've made this talk super interesting is actual real life examples and anecdotes on the points presented. As in "we at company X decided to allocate the between-projects time to OS project Y, and this is what happened."
It's too bad I didn't get my actual message across, we're all already mainly web application developers. So the things we do can be ported to an actual device with a minimum of effort.
And yes... the API's are nice, expect to have an increasingly lot more data once the WebAPI's are getting standardized (that was actually my second message).
But the feedback helps; I concluded that if I do this talk in a PHP setting that I need to focus on the possibilities behind the platform, not the actual platform.
I think selecting one none relational database and going a bit more indepth would have been more to my taste. However Was a very good speaker.
Perfect keynote talk.