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

@ Jun 13, 2009, 09:30 by Conor
That's basically what I was going to write.

Great speaker, content was good, if a bit broad and lacking in depth. Good last-minute coordination with @janl to avoid duplicate info.

Impressed with CouchDB (hadn't looked at it before, so this talk was right at my level), and the presentation content was very good. Toying around with it now.

Speaker: Relax a bit, compress your content into fewer sentences and don't rush. It'll improve your ability to convey your message. It was a good presentation, but there were bets going round on when you were going to pass out from lack of oxygen. :-)

Excellent presentation, excellent presenter. Next time really push the southern accent, it's awesome. Content-wise, it's a nice birds eye overview of upcoming PHP features, and a good defense of some of the boo-boo's made in PHP's history (and, no doubt, future).

Next time send someone who can actually show interest in the stuff he's built, rather than a bored guy who uses terms like "bla bla bla" and "not very interesting" to describe his own slides on stage.

Using a C library to grab webcam images, a C library to analyze the images, and a PHP library to store them, the glue code is about two dozen lines. Not very PHP heavy. Not many details about minimizing PHP's memory or disk space footprint for devices with limited resources.

Does run through cross-compiling PHP for the beefier embedded-linux devices, which is interesting.

Okay, so joind.in does not do Unicode. There goes my funny joke. Still a great keynote.

I ? this keynote.

This talk was the most entertaining of all in my opinion. Well balanced yet very in-depth. If you've taken compiler courses, you get the immediate urge to create optimizers and new fun statements (a python-style multiple assignment sprang to mind). If the subject matter is new, there is a good discussion of the compiler's basics at the start and the discussion revolves around a well chosen simple example to demonstrate adding a new feature to the language.

Definitely good. Not many people use to talk about alternative trees representation. That was good and very interesting to know that some DMBS already have some of those things implemented.