Behat Best Practices
at PHP Yorkshire 2018 (14.Apr.2018) | 5 comments | Ciaran McNulty
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Talks
Date Presented | Last Commented | By Comment | By Name
BDD In Practice
at PHP UK Conference 2018 (14.Feb.2018) | 5 comments | Ciaran McNulty
TDDing a problem - phpsec a demo
at PHP East Midlands Unconference 2017 (25.Nov.2017) | 6 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Behat Best Practices
at ScotlandPHP 2017 (04.Nov.2017) | 3 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Behat Best Practices with Symfony
at SymfonyLive London 2017 (22.Sep.2017) | 3 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Driving Design through Examples
at PHP South Coast 2017 (09.Jun.2017) | 8 comments | Ciaran McNulty
A Developer's Survival Handbook
at PHP Yorkshire 2017 (08.Apr.2017) | 14 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Driving Design Through Examples
at PHP UK Conference 2017 (17.Feb.2017) | 10 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Talking in Examples
at Inviqa Dev Day (09.Dec.2016) | 2 comments | Ciaran McNulty, Ben Islin
Conscious Coupling
at ScotlandPHP 2016 (29.Oct.2016) | 5 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Modelling by Example
at PHP North West 2016 (30.Sep.2016) | 4 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Conscious Coupling
at SymfonyLive London 2016 (16.Sep.2016) | 5 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Driving Design through Examples
at Dutch PHP Conference 2016 (25.Jun.2016) | 7 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Finding the right testing tool for the job?
at PHPSerbia Conference 2016 (29.May.2016) | 6 comments | Sebastian Bergmann, Ciaran McNulty
Driving Quality with PhpSpec
at PHPSerbia Conference 2016 (28.May.2016) | 5 comments | Ciaran McNulty
TDD with PhpSpec
at phpDay 2016 (13.May.2016) | 7 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Conscious Uncoupling - Building Software That Lasts
at Lone Star PHP 2016 (08.Apr.2016) | 8 comments | Ciaran McNulty
TDD With PhpSpec
at Lone Star PHP 2016 (07.Apr.2016) | 6 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Why Your Test Suite Sucks
at PHPCon Poland 2015 (15.Nov.2015) | 11 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Driving Design through Examples
at PHPCon Poland 2015 (14.Nov.2015) | 8 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Driving Quality with PhpSpec
at True North PHP 2015 (06.Nov.2015) | 19 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Driving Design through Examples
at PHPNW15 (03.Oct.2015) | 16 comments | Ciaran McNulty
TDD with PhpSpec
at PHPNW15 (02.Oct.2015) | 7 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Why Your Test Suite Sucks
at PHPConf.Asia 2015 (22.Sep.2015) | 6 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Building a Pyramid: Symfony Testing Strategies
at SymfonyLive London 2015 (18.Sep.2015) | 20 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Domain-Driven Design for Symfony Developers
at SymfonyLive London 2015 (17.Sep.2015) | 2 comments | Richard Miller , Ciaran McNulty
Driving Quality with PhpSpec
at Nomad PHP EU - August 2015 (20.Aug.2015) | 3 comments | Ciaran McNulty
How PSR-7 will change the world
at Inviqa Dev Day June 2015 (18.Jun.2015) | 4 comments | Ciaran McNulty, Richard Miller
Driving Quality with PhpSpec
at phpDay 2015 (16.May.2015) | 6 comments | Ciaran McNulty
Why Your Test Suite Sucks
at PHP UK Conference 2015 (20.Feb.2015) | 25 comments | Ciaran McNulty
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(22.Feb.2014)
What Makes Technology Work
Enjoyed it and a good kick off to the conf. My only issue was we have too many speakers with stories about minor UX issues they encounter on airlines / hotels / transport systems!
(22.Feb.2014)
The Seven Deadly Sins of Dependency Injection
Nicely opinionated overview of DI. Coped well with major tech issues.
(22.Feb.2014)
Unbreakable Domain Models
Fantastic talk with a very passionate speaker. Speaking to people afterwards quite a few had 'lightbulb moments' during it.
(22.Feb.2014)
Gathering Metrics with Statsd and Graphite
A good introduction to statsd, something I'd not used before. Well presented by an engaging speaker.
(22.Feb.2014)
Debugging HTTP
Good introduction to some useful tools, seemed quite rushed but then finished pretty early
(23.Feb.2014)
Test, Transform, Refactor
Very nice points in there about transformation and Marcello is always an engaging and entertaining speaker. I thought there were a few too many concepts being introduced in parallel (deliberate practice, phpspec, TDD flow, TPP) and it could benefit from cleaner separation between these.
(26.Sep.2014)
Decoupling with Design Patterns and Symfony2 DIC
Really in-depth look at a hugely decoupled application. Great stuff
(29.Nov.2014)
PHP object mocking framework world: let's compare Prophecy and PHPUnit
Decent overview, some errors though and an emphasis on testing after the fact, which is not what Prophecy is about.
(29.Nov.2014)
Feature Flags with Symfony
Great talk, something to take back to the git-flow-obsessed office
(29.Nov.2014)
Sylius - E-Commerce for Symfony2
I enjoyed the walk through, would maybe be nice to see more of the actual code
(20.Feb.2015)
Everything That I Really Needed to Know, I Learned in Rabbinical School
I thought this talk had some great advice and content. The delivery was very slow, measured and semon-like, which I didn't really react well to but looking at the other feedback maybe that's a personal preference? It felt like the talk overran but that could probably have been avoided by speaking a little faster.
(20.Feb.2015)
Reverse caching proxies: Varnish or Nginx?
Thijs is a fantastically engaging speaker, and always a pleasure to watch. The talk was well structured and compared the two tools well - I'd have liked more detail on each but that is probably an expectations mismatch.
(20.Feb.2015)
Devops for PHP Developers
A great talk that took us through the core concepts of DevOps and how they're (ab)used today. Jeremy seemed a little nervous in the first 5 mins but once he got going his knowledge and passion for the subject showed through.
(20.Feb.2015)
Barely Enough Design
Marcello's always good value as a speaker; engaging and entertaining. My only criticism is that the talk was a little short, but there were some great questions at the end.
(20.Feb.2015)
Continuously delivering PHP projects
Great talk, although his complete dismissal of feature toggles surprised me!
(21.Feb.2015)
MVVM and Silex - It's the future
Very well presented, and an interesting tour around various JS frameworks. It was an interesting architecture described; my only criticism would be you could probably skip the Silex and just do it as an MVVM talk.
(15.May.2015)
Behat+Mink+PhantomJS = Test ALL THE THINGS!
Covered a lot of stuff (maybe too much to go into detail of anything) but came in under time.
However what we got was a good overview of end-to-end testing using Behat, delivered well.
(15.May.2015)
Brownfield Domain Driven Design
Some interesting stuff about drawing out bounded contexts
(15.May.2015)
Talmudic Maxims to Maximize Your Growth as a Developer
Really motivating to start engaging and helping others.
Hebrew quotes are all repeated in english so could be dropped for time :-)
(16.May.2015)
Behind the Scenes of Maintaining an Open Source Project
Great mix of sharing and humour
(18.Jun.2015)
A Developer's Tale: There and Back Again in Under 500ms
Nice overview of what happens during with a request, and highlighted some bottlenecks I'd not considered
(18.Jun.2015)
Working with a Fixed Price/Fixed Scope
Some good tips for this sort of project: a bit rushed at the end
(18.Sep.2015)
Doctrine 2: To Use Or Not To Use
Very pragmatic talk that really clarified when and why Doctrine can be painful and where it will make everything easier
(18.Sep.2015)
Hexagonal architecture - message-oriented software design
Covered a lot of different related topics and is always an engaging speaker
(22.Sep.2015)
Opening Keynote:
Great insight into the hard work that's gone into PHP7 and the improvements we can expect.
(22.Sep.2015)
Improve Magento Performance To Drive Higher Conversions
Showed some interesting performance bottlenecks and did well answering questions about generic Magento bugs ;-)
(22.Sep.2015)
Once Upon A Time... There Was An API
Interesting content and a great mode of presentation but the music made it hard for me to concentrate on the spoken words
(23.Sep.2015)
Panada Framework, Simple but High Performance PHP Framework from Indonesia
A bit nervous but did a good job
(23.Sep.2015)
Web Application Security: Winning When The Odds Are Against You
I thought I had a good grasp of this stuff but the talk was an eye-opener!
(23.Sep.2015)
Building Smarter Applications Using Cognitive Computing
Interesting subject but playing a video is cheating :-)
(04.Oct.2015)
Are you a good Code Scout
Interesting and valuable topic, timing issues were evident so I knocked a mark off but understandable considering the amount of time Matt had to prepare
(04.Oct.2015)
phpBB, Meet Symfony
Very enthusiastic and knowledgable. Even though I'm not involved with PHPBB it's an interesting case study. Slides were a little scrappy and the speaking seemed rushed at times - I think more prep might have helped; Michael said he'd buy a beer for people who gave constructive criticism ;-P
(04.Oct.2015)
Mental Health, Open Source and You
Great subject and a good talk; I especially liked the way Mike showed how we can seek help ourselves when problems arise. My only criticisms would be the lack of Open Source (badly titled?) and the slides could be more polished. Neither really detracts though.
(06.Nov.2015)
Opening Keynote
I really enjoyed hearing about the work Christina's doing and her personal experiences added a lot of context.
Some great advice in there too.
(07.Nov.2015)
The Neuroscience & Psychology Behind Open Source Communities
Good despite Michelangelo heckling :-)
(07.Nov.2015)
Diving Deep into JavaScript Functions
Interesting look into JS functions and clarified a few grey areas for me.
I found the GIFs a bit jarring but from the other commenters I can see I'm in a minority.
Good talk!
(07.Nov.2015)
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
Thought-provoking with plenty of calls to action
(07.Nov.2015)
Property-based Testing: Work Smarter, Not Harder!
Well-paced and interesting intro to the topic.
(17.Feb.2016)
Symfony and ElasticSearch
Same comment as Jakub about font size but the presentation was well paced and had right level of detail
(17.Feb.2016)
Sylius: Something For Everyone
Interesting and well-paced talk, but nerves showed a little. Could easily be polished up with more practice.
(18.Feb.2016)
The Code Manifesto
Great keynote on an important topic.
I liked the amount of personal detail Kayla brought to the talk, and the manifesto seems a great idea.
(18.Feb.2016)
Eating spaghetti with Symfony
I liked the amount of practical advice; I think the same advice could have been made with Symfony examples but throw in some examples of doing it in other stacks for a generic conference like this,
Minor point! Good talk!
(19.Feb.2016)
Kubernetes at the Home Office
Very informative, I've not done much with kubernetes so was great to see what it can do. The live-style demos worked really well.
(08.Apr.2016)
Behat: Beyond the Basics
Good talk that goes very rapidly from introducing BDD to diving into very specific Behat tips. It was a clear progression and delivered well.
I'm not sure it's worth covering Behat 2 when it's practically end of life, but can see how some of the tips for 2 might be useful to the audience.
(09.Apr.2016)
Writing Workers For Scalable Applications
Great energy and enthusiasm in the delivery as always, with some really concrete advice on how to get started.
(09.Apr.2016)
4 Design Patterns to Make Better Code
Presentation style absolutely nailed it, and probably gave beginners a lot of subjects to follow up on.
The examples for each pattern were problematic for me: showing Service Locator as a good idea; advocating keeping Session in a container; saying Factory is a Design Pattern (it's not, Factory Method is and is different to what was presented); a lot of use of statics and base classes.
This may be a slightly harsh rating but these details matter. Please don't be discouraged because you're clearly a good speaker!
(10.Apr.2016)
Step Into Debugging
Even though I've used this stuff I learnt some tips and really enjoyed the delivery
(13.Apr.2016)
The Hidden Architecture of the Domain
From the back of the room it was really hard to read the slides. The pace and pitch of the delivery were really slow and sedated so even though it's a subject I'm interested in it was hard not to drift off.
(14.May.2016)
How I learned to stop worrying and love Regular Expressions
I learned at least four new things and the visualisations worked really well
(14.May.2016)
Deploying PHP 7
Always a good speaker, I got a lot out of hearing Rasmus's insights and what he's most excited about. I need to change my deployment process now
(08.Jun.2016)
You First
Great insight into the company's approach and values. Timekeeping could be better ;-)
(08.Jun.2016)
Taking your Jira skills to the next level
Really good, I thought I knew Jira pretty well but learnt a lot
(08.Jun.2016)
jiran - Jira Command line tool
A good story of how the tool was developed, and a nice peek at the functionality
(08.Jun.2016)
Ghost Inspector
Clearly talked about the pros and cons of the tool and I loved the 'live' demo.
(08.Jun.2016)
Samuel's and Damian's Excellent Docker Adventure
Really showed how the tools can be used
(24.Jun.2016)
Mirror, mirror on the wall: Building a new PHP reflection library
Really interesting, certain crowd members need to heckle less ;-P
(25.Jun.2016)
Mutation Testing in PHP with Humbug
Great talk: good structure and told the story of an interesting project well.
(25.Jun.2016)
Introducing Eager Design
Consistent as ever, a great talk even though I disagree with a lot of it.
(27.Jun.2016)
Being effective with legacy projects
Great perspective on the real world problems that affect legacy projects, aside from the code
(19.Sep.2016)
The Workflow Awakens
Really knowledgable about the component and gave a clear run-through
(19.Sep.2016)
Going micro with the Symfony microkernel
Really interesting to see the Kernel being taken apart and put back together like this. My only comment is it was hard to keep track of which approach we were discussing because there were so many.
(01.Oct.2016)
A World Without PHP
Really good as a history of PHP, I can understand the comments about the abstract - the narrative of 'where would we be without PHP' fell by the side a little and could be used a bit more to string the anecdotes together
That aside each section was fun and interesting!
(01.Oct.2016)
Continously delivering
Good talk that covered a lot of ground in an area Hames is very knowledgable in
Had some slide tech issues and handled them well, but please speak louder or stand closer to the Mic :-)
(01.Oct.2016)
Slim: The PHP micro framework
As someone who hasn't used Slim it was really informative and I'll definitely keep it in mind for future
(01.Oct.2016)
Kicking off with Zend Expressive and Doctrine ORM
An interesting contrast to the Slim talk, will be checking out expressive
(01.Oct.2016)
From Doctor to Coder: A Whole New World?
Fantastic talk. Covered lots of related areas in culture, learning, motivation with the right mixture of humour, anecdote and facts.
Please do this sort of talk at many more conferences.
(02.Oct.2016)
Behaviour Driven Development and Behat: Telling Stories Through Code
Good content that showed a lot of what Behat can do. Maybe speak slightly slower, and could do with more visual content in the slides for some of the periods
(02.Oct.2016)
Decouple your framework now, thank me later
I liked what was there but it was about 1/3 of the content I was expecting to get
(08.Apr.2017)
Git's Guts
Great first talk. Well structured and cleanly delivered with a few jokes. I leaned a lot!
(08.Apr.2017)
The Why’s And The How’s of Asking Users Who They Are
Informative, fun, and a real eye-opener for me personally
(07.Nov.2017)
Creating Space to be Awesome
Really great - covered a lot of ground in a relatively short talk, and gave lots of references to follow up with later.
Busting preconceptions is always great in a keynote; really glad to see these topics being discussed at a tech conference.
(07.Nov.2017)
Rise of the Machines
Enjoyed the talk, good energy and lots of info about a subject I'm not too familiar with.
Overrunning by 15 mins kinda screwed the schedule for the rest of the day.
(07.Nov.2017)
What even is "Cloud Native"?
Lots of content and I left with _lots_ of things to google and find out more about
(07.Nov.2017)
Content Security Policies: Let's Break Stuff
Really great to have such real-world experience being shared
(07.Nov.2017)
The Science of Code Reviews
Engaging speaker and some good content, especially as he offered to step in last minute.
Form the early description I could have done with less 'persuading people to have code reviews' and more focus on specific good practices - what was there was great.
(07.Nov.2017)
Pushing the Limits of PHP with ReactPHP
Really great - showed what React can do without just being the typical HTTP server demo. Lots of applications of event loops that I hadn't considered.
(25.Nov.2017)
Hitchhikers guide to research based development projects
Interesting insight into research
(15.Feb.2018)
Going Backstage on Community Trends: Bug or Feature?
Some great insight into the huge efforts people go to to make our community
(15.Feb.2018)
The why and the how of moving to 7.x
An interesting look at PHP 7 differences - I had hoped for more context about migrating, from the description
(15.Feb.2018)
Climbing the Abstract Syntax Tree
Interesting look at internals; it stayed a bit academic until the very end with some practical applications day-to-day and I’d have liked to see more ‘cool stuff I can do’
(22.Feb.2018)
Considered and Considerate A Guide to Stakeholder Management
Really interesting and practical advice from someone who clearly knows his stuff
(22.Feb.2018)
Building a mobile app with Ionic
Great advice about Ionic; despite technical issues Eddi managed to keep it flowing and capturing my interest
(14.Apr.2018)
Privacy by Design
Absolutely excellent talk - I thought I knew a fair bit about GDPR but Heather's depth of knowledge really shone through. She also gave a great perspective of who should be worrying about what when moving towards compliance
(14.Apr.2018)
Serving PHP Happily
Very interesting to see how a project like Wordpress can actively encourage PHP users to upgrade - lots more nitty-gritty work being done that I didn't realise was happening
(14.Apr.2018)
Looking After Your Mental Health, a Guide for Software Developers
It's always great when people respected within the community open up and share their vulnerabilities, it can only have positive impacts.
The talk was well-prepared and impactful. I would suggest more visual aids during the long 'story time' to keep visual engagement. There were a couple of blips from tech issues but I think more speaking experience will naturally smooth those parts over
