True North PHP 2014
6 - 8 Nov 2014
at Microsoft HQ
Talk comments
A very good introduction to Hack. I enjoyed the presentation and the speaker.
A great talk about issues we face in our industry and how we can address them. Nicely done, and looking forward to future presentations by the speaker.
Good talk overall and very well-spoken and organized. The talk did make some pretty strong assertions without really backing them up. Specifically, the suggestions that packages should enable method chaining by returning self seemed out of place. It was a concrete detail that APIs should do exactly one thing (and there are plenty of reasons not to do fluent interfaces).
The guidelines on marketing and documentation were *very* good.
It seemed that most of the suggestions for "building software fast" were actually organizational and cultural decisions that allowed for quick deploys, not actual methods to improve speed at which software is constructed.
Jeremy was incredibly knowledgeable and was able to fully answer any questions without hesitation. The talk was fast-paced and full of concrete code samples to demonstrate the content. Room was full for a reason.
Well done.
Great topic, content, and delivery. I agree with others' comments about more actionable steps and anecdotes. Some of the slides had too much text on them. Otherwise, this is a very important topic for our community, and the speaker's passion for communicating it shines through. It was a very fitting keynote.