The opening general session was fun. However, since we had already seen demos of Z-Ray and Z-Ray Live at past conferences I would've liked to see more time spent explaining Expressive.
Tough break on the internet problems, but watching Zeev throw those elephpants was fun in the meantime. :)
I think it was a great keynote. It was a good surprise to bring in the mentalist in to spice things up. However, I do believe that all should have been left to Wed and just concentrated in the ZendCon intro.
The mentalist being in the keynote was an inspired touch and made me make sure I attended the event. There was not enough new stuff here for me; I don't need to see z-ray again but overall geed me up nicely for coming conference.
Bit of reliance on network connection meant the keynote stalled a bit awkwardly. Mentalist was great. Nice to learn that Z-Ray will be made available outside Zend Server though!
Although I understand and respect the commercial agenda of Zend, I did believe the community didn't get enough credit for what is happening with PHP 7.
Sure, Zend plays a part in that, but the keynote made the audience believe that is was Zend and Zend only who's responsible for the development of PHP 7. Would have appreciated a more neutral stance there.
I also felt like HHVM was treated like a competitor, whereas in reality both PHP and HHVM are open source projects.
On a positive note: I do agree that these are exciting times for anyone involved with PHP and I appreciate the emphasis that was put on the community crossover with Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla & Magento
Hi. I have been programming in PHP many years but must confess to not being not quite up-to-date with latest developments.
But that's what I came to the conference for - and the keynote was pitch perfect explaining what happened with the research into JIT, refactoring the data structures & PHPNG/PHP7.
And then the progression with Zray and Zend Framework 3 with the emphasis on simplicity, reusability and performance and components.
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If the mentalist's act was shorter, the keynote may not have run over. Personally, I would rather have gone right into the PHP portion.
The opening general session was fun. However, since we had already seen demos of Z-Ray and Z-Ray Live at past conferences I would've liked to see more time spent explaining Expressive.
Tough break on the internet problems, but watching Zeev throw those elephpants was fun in the meantime. :)
Was surprised to see the mentalist act, which took some time away from the keynote and threw off the day's schedule ... Content, however, was great!
I think it was a great keynote. It was a good surprise to bring in the mentalist in to spice things up. However, I do believe that all should have been left to Wed and just concentrated in the ZendCon intro.
Next year we definitely need to get Zeev an elePHPant cannon.
The mentalist was a great addition and made for a really unique conference opener!
The mentalist being in the keynote was an inspired touch and made me make sure I attended the event. There was not enough new stuff here for me; I don't need to see z-ray again but overall geed me up nicely for coming conference.
Bit of reliance on network connection meant the keynote stalled a bit awkwardly. Mentalist was great. Nice to learn that Z-Ray will be made available outside Zend Server though!
Loved the php7 insight, best of the zendcons I've attended!
I want to see the elephant launch on a gag reel though!
Although I understand and respect the commercial agenda of Zend, I did believe the community didn't get enough credit for what is happening with PHP 7.
Sure, Zend plays a part in that, but the keynote made the audience believe that is was Zend and Zend only who's responsible for the development of PHP 7. Would have appreciated a more neutral stance there.
I also felt like HHVM was treated like a competitor, whereas in reality both PHP and HHVM are open source projects.
On a positive note: I do agree that these are exciting times for anyone involved with PHP and I appreciate the emphasis that was put on the community crossover with Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla & Magento
Hi. I have been programming in PHP many years but must confess to not being not quite up-to-date with latest developments.
But that's what I came to the conference for - and the keynote was pitch perfect explaining what happened with the research into JIT, refactoring the data structures & PHPNG/PHP7.
And then the progression with Zray and Zend Framework 3 with the emphasis on simplicity, reusability and performance and components.
Thanks - I enjoyed it.