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

Like I told you live, that was really good. To share with the others, I think there was a good tradeoff between the notions presented and the practical PHP approach to those. Definitely in my DPC09 TOP 5.

Sorry, but I have to be rude: that was absolutely useless and somehow insulting.

I hadn't read what this talk would be about, but I generally like what Yahoo is doing with tools, services and open source (we're a heavy user of YUI and Yslow) so I checked it out and I'm glad I did. It had a good introduction to some interesting tools and services that were new to me and I've already sent out some pointers to our 'front-end' guys. At the same time it is always refreshing to hear how other 'shops' create and run their web projects and the speaker did a good job of mashing up these topics with humor.

This was a pretty good talk, especially considering that the subject was very specific and technical. I have no experience with dtrace other than running some of the examples in its documentation as an experiment, so seeing the PHP and MySQL probes at work in a live environment was very useful. It was about as practical as you can get in an hour but I wouldn't mind a workshop about really writing D scripts though!

Excellent presentation Julliette! Learned quite some new stuff about character encoding and charactersets. People should give this more attention in their workflow. I'm glad I learned where to do what. Great job!

This session was one of the highlights of the conference for me. I have learned a great deal about scaling and coding for scalability. I was even surprised to see that some techniques I have used in a recent project, actually have an "official" name :p (horizontal partitioning) I left the session with a head full of ideas. Nice one Eli!

Excellent talk, in-depth enough for techies, while not too technical for some people.

Nice presentation. I know virtually nothing about versioning tools, other than that they exist. That part was interesting for me. But as Andrei pointed out, I would really have liked a view on the entire picture, with CI, unit testing, ...

I use ZF on a daily basis, and I was curious to see if and how I could improve my security. I was very surprised to see that I already use a lot of the suggested improvements. I liked the info on Zend_Session, and the Hash element to prevent CSRF. Quite obvious, the latter one, but so much forgotten...

I have only recently worked with SPL for the first time, and I feel like I should be using it more. This session has proven that even the parts of your code you "take for granted", like array traversing, can affect your performance. Perhaps the examples were not very complex, but it showed us that even the smallest aspects of your code can benefit from using SPL. However, as other attendees have pointed out, since the session was finished quite early, I would have liked to see more advanced usage. Like how your own class can implement for example ArrayAccess or Iterable, and what you can do with it from that point on. But hey, now it got me curious to go figure it out :)