ZgPHP meetup #86 2018/10
18 Oct 2018 at Pivana

This could be a "big" talk easily, examples and approaches from projects in the wild that use different architectures
Seemed like 5 mins is not enough :)

Speaker was prepared, and had the presentation under control. I believe this to be a tool that is competing in the CMS space, and although the space is kinda big, there are a few major players, especially in php. I think that if we went into the code, it would give me a good start as to why I should use it. From looking just at the front end I cannot get a feeling is it good or not and do I want to use it.
Maybe find a better example site, the skeleton site was pale, not very impressive and didn't show interesting functionality.
Put some kind of call to action into the presentation, it seemed you are trying to make us do something, but I didnt get what action that is supposed to be
If you're hiring - put a link or an email where to apply,
Try you're product? Ok, give me basic materials and quick start info
Switch to your product? links and info on some tooling that can help me with this, maybe examples

Great talk, learned some new stuff, I really liked the "refresh-db" script, its so simple and powerful yet I rarely use something like that.
Aside from that, speaker seemed extremely prepared and experienced with the tooling, even in a few glitch situations with unexpected results, the flow was good and he was back on track in a few seconds. Also, IDE/code presentation style and speed was possibly one of the best I've seen.
I like how he explained the differences between popular frameworks around the subject of DB migrations and fixtures.
As something to change, I would suggest maybe show how a real environment looks like, and some real world cases that don't maybe go as planned.

I really like the idea behind Trim, but I'm not relevant as I'm a little bit more familiar with the project. The talk was a little bit more frontend oriented than for backend (PHP) devs.

It would be great to do a live demo and show how easy is to build a CMS on top of the Trim FW.

It wasn't my plan to sabotage you with a low resolution that made the demo goes in a responsive mode ?

This is the stuff we need to spark discussions on a drinkup! I liked the idea to have a no-talks meetup and only discuss the architecture and code structure in front of a whiteboard. Lightning talks are exactly for stuff like thi IMO

It was an OK talk, but I missed the tech side of the story - a look under the hood. It would be more interesting to me if you showed architectural approaches you used, issues you've bumped into and how did you resolve them

I know I can take a look on GitHub, but I suggest you to try and find 10min in the talk for that tech stuff - after all, it's dev audience

Useful talk for those who aren't familiar with database migrations and fixtures. Inspired me to give a follow-up lightning talk.

Suggestions:
- Change the title to "Using database migrations and fixtures" to avoid confusion
- There is a slide with a yellow title on a white background - unreadable even from a first row (maybe it's just a bad projector, IDK)
- Show how doctrine can generate the diff SQL query in CLI by executing doctrine:schema:update --dump-sql
- Think about the case I mentioned about fixtures for CMS projects, listings, paginations, ... where it's useful to have more than a few manual entries
- TBH I'd rethink the unisex names comment. I don't think the diversity issue will be resolved by having 50:50 ratio between male/female names in fixtures, variables, or by using he/she in the specifications in a balanced ratio :)

4/5 only because I think it'll get better after a few iterations :)

For a developer meetup, this talk sounded too 'sales'-y IMO. I appreciate Netgen efforts to open source their work and would love to see this is a developer friendly manor, instead of talking and just browsing around the features: in demo install it, build a CMS for ZgPHP meetup (just an idea of a theme for the CMS), add some pages, put some articles in to show it off ... Even more dev friendly, show us the code & stuff, not sure how much time that would take though..

Points of improvement:
- try to avoid walls of text ... it's hard to both listen to you and read all of the text .. I would rather suggest having 30 slides with 1 thing on it then 5 slides with 6 sentences each
- switch from presentation tool to browser directly
- pick more dev friendly way: either do a show-off and show us how to build something quickly (since it's meant to build small sites as well) or pick 'tech' part and show us the code, talk about some challenges you had ...
- when we came to questions, please, do not use derogatory language when speaking about competing solution. I know I'm guilty of picking on others as well in the past, I'm trying to make myself better on it as well so I know it's not easy. When you speak in derogatory terms, it says bad things about you much more than about them and your attendees might feel alienated which means you just lost interest of them

English was good, speaker was clear and understandable. I know Mario can do this better and meetups are a great place to improve communication skills and I hope he will take this feedback constructively and improve on how to build topic part of the talk.