php|tek '12
22 - 25 May 2012
at Sheraton Gateway Suites O’Hare
Talk comments
Felt a bit like two separate presentations, which is okay, but I kind of was expecting from the title of the talk to see more directly how using php://memory, etc. benefitted scaling. This might be lost on some attendees, without more concrete examples. Neal said early on that he still playing with memory streams, and was essentially reporting what he'd learned so far, so I'm happy.
Second half of the presentation had good overview of tips for things to monitor/watch out for, but would be good to have a summary of them listed on the slides. Good verbal content, but slides were just a bit sparse in this regard.
I like the fact that he encourages questions in context during the talk, instead of making people wait to the end. No problem with volume from attendees asking questions, but people might benefit from your repeating their questions.
I liked the live code examples; ensure that any downloads or slides allow the reader to reproduce the steps taken during the presentation.
Good job!
Another solid talk! Well done, Neal!
2 Best talks so far.
The crowd discussion was better than the talk, just was expecting more example
What other commenters have said. Giving some history provided context. Good examples Don't forget Paul's great book recommendation: "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code," by Martin Fowler. I like his taking questions during his talks.
Some handy tips on Phar, and the features available. Thought the PharData note was particularly helpful, as was the look at the default stub.
This was a great talk for providing some of the theory and background knowledge of things that I usually stumble into by tweaking and accident. It was great to finally get some understanding of why things work the way they do. I would have liked to have seen some slightly more advanced techniques, like new CSS3 selectors and working with more complex whole page layouts. Still an excellent talk.
Like others said, needed more examples, less "why and what"
Really appreciated the in depth code examples, and learned some new techniques for modular JS.