php|works + PyWorks
12 - 15 Nov 2008
at Atlanta, GA
Talk comments
Speaker seemed to be knowledgeable, but unprepared with missing slides and the talk did not seem to flow very well.
Good intro to the codeigniter framework, and how it differs from most other frameworks.
Excellent session by very knowledgeable speaker. Imho, one of the best talks of the conf. She invited the audience to ask questions or add to her comments if anyone had other ideas, which made it more informative and entertaining.
Very interesting talk on how security is more than just writing secure code. A good user interface allows end users to help protect their own security. Also a good comparison between the credit card industry and interactive web sites/services.
Was hoping for more indepth material, but this was a great intro for those not familiar with the subject.
An interesting look at the new PHP additions that I am greatly looking forward to. Having core devs in the room discussing design decisions made it even better.
Good overview of software lifecycle management and improvement items, for those not already familiar with continuous integration. Was effectively a review of topics I'm already familiar with, but I think Stefan's descriptions and explanations were well tailored to those new to CI.
Great organization of topics as well as ordering of items discussed... it felt like the ordering of things flowed one to the other very well, with no particular item seeming to me like it should have been mentioned earlier or later.
The topics were very high-level but explained in a clear way that showed the reasons for their inclusion. I came away from the talk with ideas for high-level goals to consider when reviewing my group's processes.
The talk sort of got bogged down at a couple of points as some of the "bad PEAR1 fu" points evolved into discussions about PEAR1. This ultimately left little time for the actual PEAR2 topics to be covered.
Next time, should probably spend less time dwelling on PEAR1 issues... I concede they help demonstrate some issues that PEAR2 plans to address, but perhaps restructure the slides such that each begins with a "PEAR2 item" that shows "it does this {foo} task" that leads to "it addresses issue {bar} that we learned from PEAR1". That way, there's PEAR2 info all throughout the talk, with just small hits of "bad PEAR1 fu" peppered here and there. By lumping all the PEAR1 issues at the front, I was feeling slightly depressed at the midpoint of the talk ;-P
Great information on the new date time features and all the interesting things you can do with them. Anyone who has worked with date/time stuff manually, can appreciate how much of a time and money saver the new functionality is.