CodeWorks 2009 (Atlanta)
28 - 29 Sep 2009 at Atlanta, GA

I really expected this session to be too advanced for me, but on the contrary, Stefan Priebsh actually cleared up many of the misunderstandings that I had about OOP in general. I have taken college courses that did not provide the clarity and information that was packed into this session. (And none of my college professors *ever* made beer analogies!)

Great session, learned so very very much ... would like to know when Stefan might write a book on this topic because I don't know how else I could possibly retain everything I learned!!

I learned so much out of this session! Wish I could have had a recording of it because I know there was so much more I probably didn't pick up on as well.

BigBlueHat: I agree. I had too much content, and need to drop some stuff from it for my next presentation on the tour. Thanks for your feedback!

Super fast overview of some of the core design patterns for PHP'ers. Would have been nice to have more time spent on fewer of the patterns. Perhaps a focus on the ones that can be used with SPL, as so few of us even think to use SPL when it could be a very helpful basis for some good refactoring. I'd love to see this be a standard topic in the roster of talks for future conferences.

Well presented and good information, but the day-to-day applicability of parsing PHP tokens was harder to see. Knowing how to build parsers and tokenizers for any language (especially one's own DSL's) would be a good extension to this talk.

Great CodeIgniter overview. Especially useful if you've worked with other frameworks, but don't know what makes CI distinct. It may have been a bit fast for some unfamiliar with MVC. Perhaps focusing the presentation on just building and API would have helped. Good overall, though, and I'd go again.

XDebug is something that should be part of every PHP developers core tool set. Derick's presentation showed of several aspects of XDebug that a casual user of it (like myself) would not have found without a good bit of research. Having Derick (the author of XDebug) show off some key functionality, has moved XDebug to the top of my "to use daily" list.

Great psychology focused presentation on security. It was good to hear about the more "ambient" and conceptual aspects of building secure systems. Left a lot of room for experimentation and exploration. Great photos and examples too.

Great tips and tricks plus some basic overview information on HTTP and REST. Ben Ramsey definitely needs a tutorial session and/or there need to be more presentations on this topic. HTTP is what we all do every day without knowing it. We could all use some additional understanding of it.