True North PHP 2014
6 - 8 Nov 2014
at Microsoft HQ
Talk comments
This talk was packed to capacity and for good reason. Jeremy did a great job approaching several key concepts, but tying them altogether. His presentation style was enthusiastic and energetic and he clearly was speaking from experience, not his slide deck. I look forward to trying out ADR in a future project.
Empathy is hard, but Emma Jane showed us the way. I liked how you approached the topic and how you broke down different difficulty levels for cultivating empathy. A great start to the conference.
This workshop was a wonderful way of approach git. Anyone can read a tutorial and figure out how to commit and branch and merge, but Emma Jane brought so much more to the discussion. Her experience dealing with different teams and different workflows helped people figure out what approach their team should take. I'd say that even seasoned git users would benefit from this workshop. I know I did.
This workshop was amazing. Jordan is clearly a seasoned pro with the techniques he is teaching. I was impressed by how well organized the slides and labs were. Very well done.
Yes! Lying tests. Tests coupled with implementation. So true, so true.
The example in "Dreaded Design Damage" felt like a real-world example. Excellent.
I think a concrete example comparing MVC, ADR, and DDD would have been beneficial. And now that DDD is 10 years old, what about architectural approaches like Facebook's Flux?
Appreciated the behind-the-scenes account of maintaining an open source project like CakePHP.
Awesome point of view of an industry I knew nothing about.
I found it moderately interesting such that I'm inclined to take an empathy assessment...more out of curiosity than as a self-improvement metric.
So much great information in this talk. Ed shifted focus the emphasis away from technical prowess and to a more holistic approach to team work. Yes, knowing how to code is important, but that's a small part of what makes a developer great. I walked away with a better appreciation for these other important aspects of my work.
On top of the great content, Ed had a really sincere presentational style. I love talks like this. **Bonus points for the C64 font. Not going to be tribalistic here but Atari 130XEs were technologically superior in every way /end troll.