Symfony Live London 2012
13 - 14 Sep 2012
at The Brewery
Talk comments
The first half was an insightful and passionate talk about good perspectives on "testing" (in quotes as a major point was that to focus on 'testing' rather than 'behaviour' can be a trap).
However, things went scarily off the rails with the live demo, which was confusing as hell. I'm sure that this new tool(s) makes BDD effortlessly transparent & quickly implementable in Symfony, but it wasn't clear what they were doing or where they were going (and I'm not sure, but they seemed confused on how to use the toolset they just wrote?!?)
This would have gone smoother if they'd prepared the codebase in advance, and shown how to progress from "an empty Symfony app" through to a failing test to passing tests, using something like GitHub compare.
If I could give this 2.5 stars, I would - if only for the philosophical insight of "failure is a way of life, as it shows you what to fix" :)
Awesome presentation! Best talk of the conference!
easily best talk I attended today, nice style and a very informative way to present a command-line driven presentation. Excellent stuff!
Love the ascii art "slides" and the idea. Really creative again. You are a great speaker. Too bad the ratio of the images isn't correct when you upload an image.
Very nice talk, I didn't have any experience about AWS and I really enjoyed it anyway!
Best talk of Symfony Live London
Very entertaining, and stretching - most informative talk of the day. Good work!
Very interesting and informative, es. to see how large scale the Drupal internals are being ported to Symfony and the upstream submissions / usage increase.
Interesting and inspiring