ZendCon 2014
27 - 30 Oct 2014
at Santa Clara, CA Convention Center
Talk comments
Why didn't someone warm me this talk was so advanced? Oh wait, they did. Ross is a fantastic, humorous presenter for the right crowd but I feel like his talk warranted an extra special "Super Advanced Fast-Paced Knockout" tag on it. Extremely in-depth, well-researched information that made my head spin.
The only reason that I marked this 3 stars and not 5 is because the talk's pace was extremely fast and unless you had a php interpreter in your brain it was very hard to follow along. I think I understood most of it conceptually but had the speaker spent a few more seconds on each slide, I would have been able to grasp the concept and the implementation too. Unfortunately there were too many new concepts for me to remember even by looking at the downloaded slides.
Having said that, the contents of this talk could have easily been put into a 300 page book so I understand that the speaker had to run through it (but still, I would have prefered less content delivered slowlier).
If you ever make an O'reilly, or Lynda video of an extender version of this I would definitely buy it!
Great talk. Awesome live example!
Having seen Mr. Crockford present before, I was excited when I saw that he would be at ZendCon. I was however, supremely disappointed in his presentation this time. He seemed ill at ease, and for some reason, not really into the presentation. He even skipped a slide stating "you aren't really interested in this" and moved on. I would have expected a presenter of his pedigree to have reviewed his slides and removed any that were not appropriate for the audience.
This was a disappointing end to an otherwise great conference.
Enormous lot of info and history. Great in depth notes on the stats. Gives newbies a great platform not to start just following legacy codes or be radical in taking sides. He just encouraged a few more geniuses to be given birth.
Great insight. An analyzer material rather than a fix provider. Made me think much.
Might be a good point for those looking at Big Data involvement.
Chris is a good presenter and speaks his mind. I like the grumpy caricature that he has created for himself and found a lot of humor mixed in with his in-depth knowledge of testing.