Last night's PHP talk

[Darren Beale]

To echo my comments on the PHPWM list thanks to Reuben and James at
PSL for the use of their facilities and the free pizza last night, it
was much appreciated.

Matt: during our chat afterwards you made me realise that I'd not done
the best job of explaining the Symfony directory structure, doh. My
first comment should've been that it is all auto generated by the CLI
tool. I'll make sure I change that should I come to recycle the
presentation at some point in the future.

Anyway, nice to see a good turnout on a cold and windy Tuesday night.

Cheers

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[Rob Allen]

On 12 Mar 2008, at 10:21, Darren Beale wrote:
>
> Matt: during our chat afterwards you made me realise that I'd not done
> the best job of explaining the Symfony directory structure, doh. My
> first comment should've been that it is all auto generated by the CLI
> tool. I'll make sure I change that should I come to recycle the
> presentation at some point in the future.

It's tricky to remember all the key points that the "unwashed masses"
don't know! You should certainly strengthen the emphasis on how much
the CLI tool does for you in Symfony as it is one of the key
differentiators.

Good presentation though - it built nicely on the intro to Symfony at
PHPLondon.

Regards,

Rob...

[Matt]

> Matt: during our chat afterwards you made me realise that I'd not done
> the best job of explaining the Symfony directory structure, doh.

It seemed like there was a lot of "generate this, then copy it, then
tweak it, then alter this config...", but I think mentioning that
config-itis is a common complaint upfront gets people watching for it
while you demo.

Oh, I wrote up a brief blog entry about the talk here:
http://eclecticdreams.com/blog/php-west-midlands-and-symfony

-Matt

http://eclecticdreams.com/

[Rob Allen]

On 13 Mar 2008, at 11:14, Matt wrote:
>
> It seemed like there was a lot of "generate this, then copy it, then
> tweak it, then alter this config...", but I think mentioning that
> config-itis is a common complaint upfront gets people watching for it
> while you demo.
>

Definitely config heavy! Even if you don't have to write it all
yourself.

> Oh, I wrote up a brief blog entry about the talk here:
> http://eclecticdreams.com/blog/php-west-midlands-and-symfony

You wrote it up better than me :)

Regards,

Rob...