ZgPHP 2017/12 meetup
14 Dec 2017
at Mama
Talk comments
Nice introduction to Deployer, but I was expecting more concrete and non-trivial examples.
Great job for a first talk, though!
Although this talk actually had nothing to do with development and didn't touch on anything concrete from technology or workflow, it was very interesting to hear about how philosophy and development (in general, broad sense) have a lot in common.
I was actually expecting a talk about (or even possibly lack of) difficulties, problems, expectations and various possible differences someone coming firstly from financial world, then from purely academic, theoretical, and philosophical environment into software development, but instead learned a bit more about how philosophy and software development can go together, as well as some of the aspects of both philosophy and development I haven't thought about before.
I think this was a very good introduction of the Deployer tool, and as a beginner, I must say i understood quite a lot from the presentation, so thumbs up!
Perhaps a bit more ice breaking with public speaking, but that is not as important as the technical knowledge and familiarity with the topic that the speaker, by what I could tell, clearly possessed.
Good job!
The talk was very interesting and completely different from what we usually hear. Speaker is fluent in English and it was a pleasure listening to him. I would really like to hear more from him, maybe some technical talk once he gets more familiar with programming.
It was very basic, I think more could have been covered. I would especially like to hear what kind of obstacles speaker encountered and how he solved them, this was covered with one slide with a list of commands.
It was interesting and a good introduction to Deployer, but I felt like more could have been covered even for a beginner's talk. I liked the visual explanation of deployment processes, but didn't like the slides with the install instructions that is already covered at Deployer website.
Loved the "it's never too late for anything" attitude from the speaker and the personal development story. Very good English.
Subject is very interesting, I'm looking for a new deployment tool and will for sure take a look at Deployer as one of the options.
As it was Tomislavs first speaking arrangement, it was clearly visible that he was nervous but we cant hold it against him. As one of the organizers I hope he will come back and speak even more, sharing his experience and improving his speaker skill.
I tought this talk would be more about how speaker switched to development, what were the biggest obstacles, some tips/tricks to help others, but it became a very philosophical view of philosophy and development. Which was really interesting and unexpected twist, probably I didnt give enough relevance about the "I'm coming from philosophy background" so I had different expectations.
For next time, I would suggest more clear description, just to avoid the possible confusion. Speaker was good, really good English, pretty concise and clear in speaking.
About the slides, maybe it would be better to avoid so much text on one slide... either cut it into multiple slides or maybe even avoid having full paragraphs of text on the slide by just showing the keywords...
Thumbs up and 2022/12 slot is yours :)
It was interesting to hear someone switch to development at this age from a totally different domain. A few of my friends tried it and most of them failed, even though they have some basic understanding of the concepts.
I would also like to hear more things that are quite clear to us and take some time for others to grasp - like the given example of POST vs GET request.