SunshinePHP 2013
8 - 9 Feb 2013
at Embassy Suites Miami International
Talk comments
Excellent talk, I was glad to see the focus on Hypermedia and differentiation between approaches that are commonly found. I also really enjoyed that Luke ensured all the questions were thoroughly answered, as the topic is more theoretically complex than what I'm used to. Very good presentation style, very easy to listen to and motivated me to learn more. Excellent talk and presentation, great work!
I loved that Matthew removed the concepts of Database Testing and Unit Testing from each other. Great talk to get more familiar with the DBUnit extension and a good job of separating the use cases for DB testing. Ended a little early, but good info and content.
Ran a little bit short, but the topic is something that everyone has dealt with or is currently dealing with. I really appreciated your passion for the topic and your real life scenarios. It was a good practical introduction to Behat and Mink for me. It would have been good to see some more detailed info on Behat, however it didn't take away from the presentation. Great job!
Great information. This redesign technique is broadly applicable to migrating applications, adding tests to legacy code, or just refactoring out components. I've heard a lot of people in different presentation audiences here asking questions that this could answer. Diction could be a little clearer but was still understandable.
This is a great talk and is very inspiring! The stories you tell of prominent members of the community rising to become giants in their niche are very relatable.
When talking about those people I'd love you to show pictures of them on their respective slides. I'm sure some in the room recognize these people by name, but seeing their photo may trigger, "Oh, I've seen them before!" type of moment.
I heard a few attendees afterward asking around for contact info for some of the people you talked about. Perhaps you could also add their public contact info (Twitter, IRC handle, etc) with their consent.
Great info for a topic all developers will encounter in their career. I liked that you cited a book to give people a place to reference beyond your presentation.
Like some questions that came up at the end, perhaps explain more about the technologies under Behat and other options for doing end-to-end tests. While Behat is a great tool and you use it at your company, it's probably not likely that devs attending the talk will have used it, and maybe not even heard of it or the concept of BDD, Gherkin, etc. Maybe find a tool that's more accessible for devs so they could feel more confident in tackling the daunting task of starting to test their applications without having to build up all their knowledge with everything surrounding Behat.
Yes, yes, and yes. Community FTW. Great speaker with good stage presence. Just stop rocking back and forth so much. It's distracting. :-)
Very good stage presence, and good material. Modernizing an ugly code base is a challenge, but worth it in the long run (even if the boss doesn't realize it).
I disagree that a total rewrite is never the right approach. It's usually the wrong approach, but like everything else there are always exceptions.
Great presentation, a lot of step by step detail and thought process between steps. Would like to see a step 2 presentation to show the remainder of the migration.
Excellent talk, I was glad to see the focus on Hypermedia and differentiation between approaches that are commonly found. I also really enjoyed that Luke ensured all the questions were thoroughly answered, as the topic is more theoretically complex than what I'm used to. Very good presentation style, very easy to listen to and motivated me to learn more. Excellent talk and presentation, great work!