True North PHP 2013
7 - 9 Nov 2013
at Microsoft HQ
Talk comments
Quick pace, lots of info, very technical, well prepared, extremely knowledgeable, good speaker.
Very good talk. Loved the exceptionally illustrative slides. Focused a bit more on philosophy, principles, and high-level design than practical examples, but still an enjoyable introduction.
Excellent keynote. I like how the focus was not just on the actual work, but also on the social interaction of the team while working remotely. Thanks!
The session itself was quite interesting. You are one of the few people around who can cover the topic with clarity. However, I would appreciate more sources and references for the topic. To your credit, you did provide some answers to my inquiry on references. You deserve credit as well for the creative use of hand-drawn slides. They were a nice personal touch.
Nice coverage of a bunch of pieces, though at times the talk didn't flow from one piece to the next smoothly. Also was a few places where examples seemed to be thought of during the talk rather than prepared ahead of time. Great ideas on testing decoupled from DB. Framework relies on my code rather than my code relying on framework...Brilliant!
Inspirational talk about why companies should be involved in open source.
Very instructive, thanks
A lot of information packed into a limited amount of time, including a rapid application bootstrap demo. Great job, especially on short notice.
Great talk. Paul is a very entertaining speaker. Funny with many anecdotes.
As one who has not spent any time with Laravel, I was looking forward to learning about the topic. To my dismay, the session consisted of code scrolling and modification. I would have appreciated coverage of the framework at an abstract level and, in particular, the theory behind it. In short, I would have liked to see an introduction instead of a demo.