PHPNW12
5 - 7 Oct 2012 at Mecure Manchester Piccadilly

quite enjoyed the talk, lots of useful bits of information inthere. I'd actually like to see a full session on this, as I felt this was too short

Really enjoyed the fact no computers were used and was very interactive. Great idea to do it this way, as I believe if we did git with computers, it could of got very boring very fast!

Really took a lot from this session aswell.

Was a really good talk, like others said, could of used with a mic though!

Felt a bit too high-level. The talk emphasised the need for code review well enough, and mentioned most the core tools for the automated part of a review; but while a lot of reference was made to checking for duplicate code, it never once actually mentioned phpcpd as a tool for identifying duplication.

As an intro for those not doing code reviews already, it would have been a good introduction... for those of us already using those tools on a regular basis, I think it missed that audience.

The most interesting part was the look at sonar, but I felt that this was an all-too brief summary of sonar features. I'd hoped for a more detailed look at sonar for those of us who already do code review on a regular basis, and are already using the other automated tools mentioned.

Sorry Volker - It would have been an excellent coverage of the new/changed features in the latest version of PHPUnit if it hadn't tried to squeeze too much material into the slot. There was a lot here that piqued my interest (too much), but I'll need to reference the slides to look at it all my closely and give it all time to sink in.
Perhaps the related libraries such wsunit and mockery could have been dropped from this and covered under a separate topic (again, they're well worth the time and effort), giving more time to look at the the changes to PHPUnit core.

Overall: the material was great, and something every developer should be made aware of for writing their unit tests... so it should affect us all. The new features clear up a lot of existing gripes and deserved more attention. And announcing the new/changed features of such an important development tool is great for letting us know how much work has been done on this release and how it affects us.

Perhaps there should be a thread with 2-hour slots in the future for topics which try to cover this much material; or it would have been better suited to an advanced PHPUnit tutorial.

Potentially an interesting talk to those who already had an interest in the topic itself. No criticism of Martin's presentation, but it wasn't for me.

I suppose it was perfectly valid material for the unconference track; but (as a disinterested viewer) it didn't persuade me that I should take any interest in FirefoxOS.

Perhaps focused a bit too much on the speed with which different password hashes could be brute-forced attacked on different platforms, though it served as a good precursor to the recommendation to use the new password hashing functions recently added to the PHP core... however, I'd have liked to see a bit more about how the new functions work internally.

How we convince a million existing developers to upgrade and start using the new functions rather than their naive use of an unsalted md5 hash is an exercise for the future

very helpful talk, do love a good wistle stop tour of the best bits :)

great talk, looking forward to sharing with the team.

Speakers obviously had the experience to do this talk, and they made good points about how involvement would benefit the individual. It certainly made me ask myself questions about my own involvement.

I would have liked more information on what businesses could do to monetise involvement in open source projects. I didn't get much from it in that regard other than businesses "can be the good guy" and share their code. Businesses need to make money to survive. Selectively/strategically open sourcing only certain things was covered, but there must be more than that?

A little bit too chatty/anecdotal/reminiscent in places, but at the end I was able to walk away with ideas about self-improvement, which is a win in my book.