Dutch PHP Conference 2017
29 Jun - 1 Jul 2017 at RAI Amsterdam

I feel the initial comment about "having to cram an hour and a half into a 45 minute talk" was spot on; it was too much content for the slot. Which is a shame, because everything that was said was very informative. More focus on half the content, and the other half as a link to read up on might have worked better here.

This talk was funny and uplifting, which is pretty much its own reward. Showing the image of the "find X" problem made me very sad about my choice of wardrobe, because I have that very image on a t-shirt and I decided not to wear it. It is great to hear other people re-iterate "take what works, discard the rest" because it's very true and very often forgotten in favor of blind adherence to ideas.

It is said that once you understand Monads, you lose the ability to explain them to others. Christopher proved that saying wrong, because I really feel like I'm starting to get it now.

This talk made me really excited to starting doing something with CouchDB. As someone who had heard of the fabled "no-sql" style of databases, but who never "got it", this talk really helped make it click. Lorna showed off these exciting pieces of software in an engaging way, very accessible to those new to the technology.

I only caught half of the presentation (had to go set up for a talk directly after), but what I did get to hear seemed a little hard to follow. There are other comments here, about slides and the level of engagement, which sum up how I feel about those. It's entirely possible that nerves sapped energy, which I think slides would have helped to re-balance.

This was an unexpectedly fun talk. Unexpected because it's not the kind of topic keynotes usually cover, but I thought it was well-presented and entertaining. A potential point of improvement would be to write the slides a bit further in advance, so you can have time to find the "slides in react" kinks and iron them out before the presentation.

Excellent talk, I like the approach the speaker took for this talk and it was very inspiring.

Good overview of topics

"That escalated quickly" - if I had to sum it up.

I think Scato should have explained the syntax of Haskell or should have used a language which is better known. But don't just assume that people will understand it. It's very strange to sit in talk not being able to follow what's happening.

However, I think that he understands the topic very well, and should try to improve his talk. I would go to his talk again, if he would work on it.

Excellent talk! Presentation style and also the content. I like the idea very much and will certainly try this approach.