ScotlandPHP 2021
22 - 23 Oct 2021
at EICC
Talk comments
Lots of really useful content here, some we're doing, some we're not (not yet!), would've been great to include some remote tips, but otherwise great talk overall.
Good content and had some great points, but was pretty negative tonally, would have prefered a more positive approach!
Just enough depth to make you interested so you go and look yourself. I'm going to go and look for our redundant indexes on Monday.
When it comes to databases, you need a VERY good speaker to make the subject come to life, and this subject was our very good speaker.
Lots of actionable advice. Put the salary in the job description, schedule in dedicated learning time, plan for the first day, week and month.
Loved the examples back to his previous students.
Example led talk.
Speaker spoke quite fast, but I think I caught everything!
He introduced us to the ReactPHP library. Mentioned that it is named after the reactor design pattern that it's based upon, I'll need to look up that pattern later.
Very informative.
Brilliant. But tiny coffee cups.
Fantastic as usual! There's always a new git command to learn. I dragged my colleague to this and he said "best talk of the day."
Well structured talk. Loved the connections to gaming; the audience participation "guess this game screenshot".
Even the strenuous game connections like Autosave.
Gary emphasized that we need empathy. A point so important that every speaker after him made a call back to this.
Very first speaker of the day. Excuses his nervousness. No way did it last 15 minutes.
If you define "legacy code" as "existing code" then this talk could be called "how to keep your job in tech".
Main take away: consider if a refactor is actually necessary and limit the scope when you do.
Speaker brought a lot of energy to his presentation.