SunshinePHP 2014
6 - 8 Feb 2014
at Embassy Suites Miami International
Talk comments
Michelle and Matthew did a really good job at highlighting different aspects of the PHP Community, and really loved how they showed that we are really one big family. The group was really small, but I think beneficial for those who were new to the community as they were able to connect with and learn more about some of the groups.
I think the one thing I would have liked to see more of would have been opportunities to get involved in the community more, as well as a listing of regional/ local conferences in case anyone wasn't from Miami.
Overall, great job- fun and educational :)
Awesome talk. Informative and entertaining. Great demonstrations in the RabbitMQ simulator. Walked away with a better understanding of RabbitMQ and the way it can be implemented in PHP. Perhaps on top of demonstrating how the PHP code executes as the Producer/Consumer, you could also make mention of an example hardware setup. "This Ubuntu machine will act as the broker" etc etc. I understand you could ultimately set it up however you like and combine services to one "physical" server, but I imagine there might also be a more ideal way of setting it up.
Thanks again for the talk and great job.
Great talk over CI. A workshop like this that targets all of these differently platforms couldn't have gone any better, so even though we ran into slow-downs, I believe most were able to get up and going. As another person suggested, perhaps a little pre-requesite for the talk should be getting Jenkins up and going. If that was a pre-req and I missed it, then my bad.
Otherwise, it was informative and entertaining and definitely left me wanting to get Jenkins setup for my next big project.
As Sean said. Cal is truly infectious. He pumps you up and gets you excited to be a PHP developer. As usual this was a great presention to really inspire people. Can't say much more than that.
While it was free (and you can't really argue w/ free). I think that I can :-D
The lines were crazy long, the hotel staff was unfriendly (often yelling at people in line), and the drink selection was ... poor. It wasn't a full bar and so they didn't even have the ability to make many common mixed drinks. Which become important given that the beer selection was poor, and the wine selection (I tried them all) was lacking.
On the other hand, it was free :)
This was a good presentation, (And as always Mark is a good speaker). Though I think he needed a few more cups of coffee that morning ;)
Delivery was a little stilted, but the topic was dead on, and a good keynote in the sense of providing Enterprise/Broad-Range topics to the audience.
Because there wasn't much PHP-tie-in given directly (as people mentioned above), I think it didn't really inspire more discussions from the audience as the day progressed however.
Great job Rasmus. Given there was no description I was 'worried', having not seen Rasmus present in a while, that this would be the stock Rasmus Keynote. Wherein he finds security holes in the conference website, and shows off using performance profiling tools to make <insert open source project> better. While that keynote was a really great one, I've seen it numerous times.
This keynote was really good, very inspiring messages to the room, and left people ready to talk about things for the rest of the day. Exactly what a keynote should do.
I'm with Rowan, I came for the song, and even picked up a few git things after having used it for a while. Great introduction to Git.
Very nicely presented, and I agree with some other commenters on twitter that we do need more 'basic algorithm' classes at our conferences since so many people in the PHP community didn't get their start as CS majors, so aren't as grounded in the concept.
This was very well presented, and the live examples were good.
Once piece of feedback is that the live examples were a little hard to follow, as they were presented. Since as it went step-to-step there wasn't as much of a visual to show exactly what happened. If somehow there could be lines showing the swaps that happened more clearly, and/or even a more video-like display, that shows the items visually swapping, that could make it even better. But as it stands, it's great.
(Oh, and having the bubble sort go bottom up, was awkward)
I really enjoyed your workshop. It was an excellent work. I'm trying to setup my environment in order to put in practice what you teached us about Jenkins and CI. Really thanks for the knowledge and your advises.