True North PHP 2012
2 - 3 Nov 2012
at Microsoft HQ
Talk comments
The talk was quiet good but the time was too short! You know your stuff pretty well but you should have extend the talk with the following topics:
* Next steps after CI: Continuous Inspection with Sonar for example,
* Short live demo
Great slides anyway :)
An enjoyable and engaging opening to the conference
Eric, I see you know your stuff and you're really passionate about it… but running a 60minute talk finishing in 20+ minutes is not looking so good.
My suggestion is to practices a little more at user groups and get your timings right. To use time more wisely, dig a little deeper into the materials you just presented. I was doing a similar workshop and was able to fill 3 hours with this CI stuff.
More practice and better time your presentation and you're good to go!
Great talk, very inspiring. Very good perspective on the "language wars".
Good talk...it was a little awkward in some points, but it had a good message. I liked the "PHP gets things done" message too.
Rule #1 of "Conference speaking 101" (see later by @skoop) is: don't be late at your talk!
I liked the talk even though I'm not really agreeing with the speaker… but I had a feeling the talk was created last-minute. I can be wrong, but this was my feeling.
As a speaker, done a great job. As keynote, not so much (yet)
Inspring talk about why easily accessible programming languages are important.
Nice intro, taking the time to explain the fundamentals.
Late or not, this was an awesome talk. Great way to kick off conference.