ZendCon 2014
27 - 30 Oct 2014
at Santa Clara, CA Convention Center
Talk comments
Presentation with clearly specified subject, that was covered in 100%. Delivered perfectly.
Interesting, but a bit chaotic because of the material being covered also on the keynote.
Nice to see news from Zend, but I'd expect the keynote to be more generic, not a product presentation.
Very good tutorial. Covers all the aspects one has to have in mind when working with a dated application. Some topics were skipped, but that was to be expected.
Presentation was fine, but it covered only basic stuff, nothing advanced.
An excellent tutorial that suggested great solutions for legacy problems that I'm sure a disproportionate number of developers face. The first half of the talk outlined SOLID principles that you should apply to your legacy code, and while it would seem impossible to know where to start with SOLID in a legacy codebase, Paul gave a step by step guide to apply it. The second half was more about fixing up db queries and views/templates, which seemed marginally less important, especially if you plan at that point to get the code into a proper framework. The only point of disagreement I had is that Paul is reluctant to move to a framework after you have effectively created your own after the SOLID steps are followed, but it's hard to argue when I'm still sitting on a mountain of bad code and he's properly converted other systems before. Nevertheless, the talk gave great direction on how to fix up ancient code, and it was pretty striking how spot on his description of what our codebase looks like (includes everywhere, procedural, non-OO, etc). Highly recommended.
Good low-level overview of the changes in PHPNG
Glad to see at least an introductory talk about Bitcoin. The more exposure the better. HOWEVER, I need to correct one statement, "our" government doesn't print its own money, the Federal Reserve does and they are a private corporation, therefore they are not subject to regulation and audits. Which is the reason we need a public ledger for our money.
Engaging talk, good if you are looking for arguments to convince your colleagues to engage more into UX. Lacked a bit on the "what does it mean 'better UX'", 'how to deliver better UX'.