ZendCon 2017
23 - 26 Oct 2017
at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Talk comments
Great presentation with valuable information, and I enjoyed the pre-session witty banter
Really good presentation, I found value in it
Great presentation
Ahmed is a good speaker, but the content in this session needed a lot smoother run-through. The presentation was a live setup on Digital Ocean, and I feel that was a fairly needless waste of time. We get that its fairly easy to purchase and initialize various cloud services, so simple screenshots prepared in advance would have saved valuable time there and allowed for more attention on what the services are, why you want them, and how you should use them.
Great talk, thanks for presenting
I'm sorry but I didn't like this talk at all. I found it to be the same thing as always but said differently. Yes, php is growing, it's cool, and is used more and more. I think everyone in the audience knows that. The comparison of the different PHP versions was interesting, but again, already done to death and not "keynote worthy". I don't mean to be negative or rude but for those of us who paid for the conference ticket out of pocket + hotel + airplane (not a trivial amount), every minute counts. I think every talk needs to add value and this one didn't. Adam Culp mentioned it many times: we're here to learn. I think the contents of this talk was more fit for a newsletter ("look, here's the state php is in, click here to compare the different versions loading a fractal!") instead of a keynote. Again, not hating but these kinds of talks make me feel a little cheated on.
I hate keynotes with a passion. Usually php conferences have keynotes that have nothing to do with programming php at all. More often than not the keynote speakers are not even technical people and the content is super generic (and even condescending from the perspective of a technical person). Samantha was the complete opposite! The talk was super interesting. When she went "the history way" I thought "oh crap, here we go again" but her approach was super relevant and the message genuinely positive. Great job!
Very well presented and thorough. If I had to listen to the talk again, I would love to hear more (and more examples) on SOLID.
Very thorough session on a very broad topic. Maybe the talk needs to narrow the scope a bit in order to give a little bit more time to the code and practical applications. Managed to dispel the myth that you need to be a mathematician in order to apply this to your own projects.
Fantastic presentation