php[tek] 2013
14 - 17 May 2013 at Sheraton Gateway Suites O’Hare

Harrie offered a fantastic introduction for any developer looking to get his or her feet wet with PHPUnit and PHP. Progressing logically from the most basic tests to the fundamentals of mocking objects and database fixtures, Harrie packed a ton of great information in to three short hours.

There's a bit of set up and I struggled to keep up with writing tests without errors. Harrie's tests always ran perfectly. I didn't get my IDE configured for code completion. Someone helped me 'git' the solutions so I can fix my errors. Harrie covered a lot of different topics including mock objects, writing testable code, test driven development, and the value of dependency injection especially as it relates to unit testing. I look forward to reducing the CRAP in my code.

This was a wonderful introduction to developing extensions. It was especially great to get a glimpse at the PHP internals through the eyes of someone so familiar with them.

This was an excellent session! Harrie managed quite well despite spotty wifi and a couple technical challenges. He was able to help people with issues in their own environments and still cover all the material. Having just struggled through learning PHPUnit a couple months ago, this filled in some gaps nicely and I came away with some tricks to try next time I am writing unit tests.

This was a fine presentation. It provided a good overview to the key features of ZF2, pointed out the changes from ZF1 for those familiar with it, and got into some of the philosophy of MVC and event driven design. My only complaint was it fell a bit short as a tutorial session. It wasn't structured in such a way to allow people to follow along in their own environment very well. A little hands-on can go a long way in cementing knowledge.

Great overview of caching, but would have been better if there was less of a focus MySQL at the start.

Thanks for an awesome introduction to Git! Very helpful.

Good walkthrough of getting started with PHPUnit.

Talk covers wide set of useful topics. Good presenting. Nicely done!

Awesome! I really enjoyed your intro and input into ways of using Git. As a solo developer I really enjoyed hearing everyone else's war stories and battle wounds. Help's put some perspective on my workflows. Makes me wish I wasn't just an "Army of One"

Thanks for giving me an "AH HA!" moment during the break as I was blankly staring at the wall!