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

Great talk, packed with loads of useful content. I liked the really clear explanations, good balance between slides and demo's and lively presentation style.

Thanks for the great feedback, Chris. I see what you're getting at in terms of making the project more aligned with Laravel, however my hope is that this project brings a more generic solution that's applicable to other frameworks and even languages. It's a big goal, that might end up being refined to a Laravel implementation :)

The fuller talk that I alluded to in the presentation did delve in to how the PGP encryption worked, with step-through debugging, and more, to offer the audience a greater insight. I did wonder whether I should have kept that in, in place of the presentation that describes the process pictorially. I do worry that, without the presentation of the workflow, simply stepping through the code would be too abstract.

I'll certainly apply your feedback to future implementations of this talk though, and will definitely be continuing to work on advancing the project itself, in what time I have available :)

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your feedback. I'm sorry about the title for this talk. It should have been called: An impractical introduction to Haskell for experienced PHP developers. The "Dummies" was meant ironically, which somehow got across when I gave the talk at a meetup. But that's on me, not on you.

If you take away one thing from my talk, I hope it is that Functional Programming is more than anonymous functions.

If you want to read up on Category Theory, see: https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/

Really dissapointing. This "presentation" wasn't a tutorial/workshop at all.

Just had to execute preconstructed scripts, which weren't explained and as a result did something to execute a positive result in jenkins.

I loved this talk! It was a perfect closing keynote. Marco delivered a humorous look at ways in which you can really make your life miserable through the use of undocumented features, and kept the audience laughing every step of the way. His stage presence was casual, relaxed, and yet very in control of the narrative, while the slides engaging and succinct. Thanks, Marco!

Most developers know the basics of the Javascript developer console and related tools, but the more advanced functions aren't often looked at until the use of console.log() makes your head spin. Vance gave a good overview of many of these advanced tools, including debug stepping, and code mappings. I found the talk very accessible and informative, with the barrier to entry low for even those PHP developers who don't develop in Javascript very much.

I love talks that compare non-development aspects of life to development, as a way of analogising ways in which we can improve our processes. In this talk, Christopher discussed myriad risk management and failover processes involved in running a nuclear power plant, and suggested ways in which software developers could apply those principles to their work.

While the direction that the talk was taking was interesting, I was disappointed with the examples given in the application of those security principles. One example, to make sure passwords aren't reused across systems, is in my mind something that should be common-practice, not critically highlighted.

Given the narrative, educational style of describing nuclear power station safety and security, I would have enjoyed the story of development to be of a similar style. For example, rather than selecting check-list items of development security to talk about, perhaps find real-world stories about security issues, how they affected systems, and how they could have been avoided, and then bringing it back to the nuclear power plant analogy, to close the loop.

I encourage Christopher to build on this talk; it has great potential :)

This talk was a good introduction to graphs, where we can find them in existing structures, how they might represent different data types, and how graph-traversal rules can assist with solution finding. Chris brought his delightfully dry humour to ensure the talk lived up to the promise of being light-hearted and accessible.

Matthias's talk gave a good overview of microservices, their benefits, and the ways in which we can adopt them in new projects and existing systems alike. As a proponent of microservices and SOA myself, I enjoyed the talk, and found the information to be clear and easily applicable.

Giorgio's talk on long running processes had quite a collection of information, which was useful, but seemed somewhat disjointed in its delivery. I would have preferred to see a few more examples, perhaps a demo.

Giorgio, you seemed a little nervous during this talk, and I know we've all been there. Keep giving the talk, refining, and practising. Good luck :)