ZendCon 2017
23 - 26 Oct 2017 at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

Talk comments

Ferrett Steinmetz at 11:48 on 24 Oct 2017

Solid introductory talk on normalization and prepared statements.

on PHP Prepared Statements and MySQL Table Design

Ferrett Steinmetz at 11:47 on 24 Oct 2017

* Teacher assumed we'd understand all the advantages of running WordPress in Node.js
* Assumed we knew what Node.js and React.js was (I did, but I would have been lost if not)
* Spewed a bunch of code without explaining what solution that code was intended to solve
* Stopped after nineteen minutes.

on Isomorphic JavaScript in WordPress Themes with NodeifyWP

Christopher Pitt at 11:31 on 24 Oct 2017

Was a good look into some of the stories behind PHP, over the years. I found the presentation/projector issues a bit distracting though.

on The Possibility of PHP – The Weird and Wonderful Stories of the Web and Where We’re Headed

Kirt Jeppson at 11:29 on 24 Oct 2017

Thanks for this. I can see my self using this a lot in my permission as a some what custodian of the code.

on PHP Prepared Statements and MySQL Table Design

Dan Lanza at 11:00 on 24 Oct 2017

Great talk, so many new languages on the IBM i to be excited about.

on The World of Open Source on IBM i

Brian Johnson at 08:54 on 24 Oct 2017

I liked the topic, but the tutorial itself didn't seem a good fit for this time window/format. The tutorial was clearly longer than the time allowed, and the session amounted to: "ok, now do these X steps from the tutorial." Would be better if presenter developed a smaller tutorial that find the allotted time, and actually interacted rather than simply being present while folks work off a pre-existing, publicly available script.

on Offline Sync for Progressive Web Apps

Brian Johnson at 08:51 on 24 Oct 2017

An interesting intro to some high level concepts, but I would've appreciated a deeper dive into concepts such as promises, generator/yield behavior, etc. The technical portion amounted to some copy/paste of a simple Amp example.

on Build a Bot Workshop: Async Primer

Tony Stark at 20:13 on 23 Oct 2017

I dislike that you changed the topic theme the day before. I was looking forward to "You got JavaScript in my PHP..

on Isomorphic JavaScript in WordPress Themes with NodeifyWP

Julian at 17:12 on 23 Oct 2017

Scared the crap out of me. Christian Wenz sure knows his stuff! Not a millisecond wasted in this talk!

on Zend PHP Certification Boot Camp - Part II

Julian at 17:09 on 23 Oct 2017

Would have loved to see more of the possibilities of the amphp library. I think that for this particular type of session I would prefer cloning the repo and screwing around with it once everything is in place. I don't find writing the code during sessions (this or any) to be beneficial. Still, the topic was super interesting and potentially game-changing! Oh, and a big thumbs down to the shitty wifi in the room (not the presenter's fault, obviously).

on Build a Bot Workshop: Async Primer