ZendCon 2016
18 - 21 Oct 2016
at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Talk comments
This was not what I expected based on the title and description - a sales pitch for Z-ray. We already have it so this wasn't very helpful.
Lots of points covered and good info.
Laura gave one of the best talks of the entire conference! I took away a lot of great advice as a manager as well as coding myself.
Well worth it and I wish she had more sessions!
Would have liked some more demos of ZF3
Had potential but it wasn't applicable to the conference.
I entered this tutorial with almost no knowledge of Composer and gained a good understanding of what it is, how I can use it, and what not to do. However, I felt that the section on semantic versioning was much too verbose and could have condensed. After all, I expect many will be referencing the slides from the session. As a workshop, I also would have greatly welcomed some hands-on examples for cementing this new info.
Enrico was knowledgeable on the material, but was visibly tired from jet-lag and nerves yielding a dry experience. In addition, the language barrier was evident and made some situations more difficult to explain.
However, I left with a better understanding of middleware, and some better code awareness.
Thank you Enrico!
As much as I enjoy listening to Cal's anecdotes, I had a real hard time sitting through this one. I think categorising anyone contributing to open source is a very bad idea. You really don't want to be branding yourself as an x language roadie or a y framework groupie. This leads to tribalism where people end up following projects blindly regardless of its actual value. There are already way too many advocating solutions with little or no knowledge of drawbacks.
Whether you're a roadie "shovelling shit" and just owning it without acknowledgement (or thanks), a groupie struggling to get your "honoured place at the table" or the rockstar playing endlessly to the empty crowd, I have one piece of advice; get the hell out of there! You're doing it for the wrong reasons and you will burn out.
One message I took from the talk was that if you're dedicated and invest enough energy, it will pay off (cos it happened to a band once). This is terrible advice. Absolutely do NOT work on something in the hope of gaining fame and glory. For every one that paid off, thousands didn't.
Avoid at all costs trying to prop up your internet fame because you could inherit and push around a title. Of course if you're enjoying something or believe it has practical value, then crack on. If you don't, put it to bed. This is commonly known as "failing fast".
Judge everything on it's own merits, even if a rockstar said it.
Cal always does a great job.
Great closing to another great Zendcon.
I hope next year is as good, or even better.
Great talk with a substantial amount of info that can be applied. Thanks Adam!