Dutch PHP Conference 2009
12 - 13 Jun 2009 at Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Excellent talk

A great talk!

Very interesting, great talk!

Good keynote! Andrei gave a nice insight on some nice features that will be in future PHP versions.

This was the worst talk I attended, had barely anything to do with PHP or webdevelopment in general, but more with sysadmin stuff. The IE7-crashing-a-backend-story was a complete fail. The only thing Robert could say about it "I've read it somewhere on the internet, just look it up yourself".

An enjoyable and in-depth talk, with a completely different view of "REST" to the last conference I went to (which was all about RESTful URL formatting - something Ben clearly feels misses the point).

This was advertised as a "crash course" so I was expecting to hear a lot of things I had heard before, whilst keeping my fingers crossed for something new.

I found the parts about UTF-7 and character encoding particularly interesting, along with the union selects (sql injection).

Whilst Stefan didn't come across as an excited or enthusiastic speaker (maybe because of issues on the day) it is very clear that he knows his stuff and it's nice to come away with an "expert" view on the way certain strategies should be implemented.

In my opinion, the "crash course" aspect of security could be left for the standard sessions (one hour talk) and this kind of tutorial day would be better used as an intermediate to advanced session, skipping or skimming over the basics and going straight to the juicy stuff. [My rating won't reflect that comment because the title was clear enough]

Really good and thourough talk. Very nice to see how some things are done at Digg.

I feel like what was covered in this talk could have been summarised in 20 minutes, and then we could have got something else from the rest of the time. A lot of time was spent just reading out manual entries on different headers and response codes, which we all could have done in our own time (after being introduced to them of course).

That said, I did come away with a way I can improve some of my own code, and it's always positive to come out of a talk with something new.

I have to re-iterate the above comments - please put whatever it is you are reading from your phone onto your slides.

I generally liked the talk, but it was a bit to "userland" and not enough "developerland" for me. Great for people who are using PHP and have not stepped into the community at all (using chat rooms, forums etc.), but not so much for people who are really looking for that little push into contributing code, patches, documentation, bug reports - that's more what I was looking for in this presentation.

When we all stood up at the beginning to show who had already contributed in some ways, it could have been good to ask the guys standing up in the early rounds how they got to that point, what made them submit that first patch and how did they go about it, etc.