Longhorn PHP Conference 2023
2 - 4 Nov 2023 at Holiday Inn Austin Midtown

This was a fantastic workshop. I was very impressed by the site Stephen build for the tutorial. It was fun working through the challenges and seeing how everyone was doing on the leaderboard. The time really flew by!

Very eye-opening, glad I attended!

Very informative and entertaining. Even if it's not something that I may need to use tomorrow, it is always fun to get exposed to this kind of things.

Internationalization vs localization, uff da, the difference between the two and the interaction with each other is a great topic. There is so much to be said about the different way that things are said!

This was great! However it showed such depth that anyone dealing with internalization needs to be aware of. Honestly I feel like this topic could literally be a full blown conference of its own. Language and the differences between the various cultures and the ways that they express information is vast and difficult to encapsulate.

The core message of this talk "Stewardship > Ownership" is excellent, I saw this talk at php[tek] and it took me this long to be able to articulate this feedback.

The message is VERY good, honestly I think it is perfect! I think that is why it took me so long to be able to give critical feedback on the talk. Having such a good message made it hard to be critical on the delivery of the message. It is very clear that this was a journey that you went through to get to this place. The place that you got to deserves more time, the journey there, while very valid is difficult for an audience to internalize. I would like to see you spending more time on destination of the message over the journey there.

Because the message of stewardship over ownership, the miss-appropriation of the term ownership in current business lingo is a very good message. That understanding and perspective is the kind of thing, which to be able to bring home from the conference is the making for an essential keynote talk.

This is the message that can define a conference and can add value to an entire organization, not just a dev department.

This was another fantastic talk by Ben Ramsey. This covered the differences between internationalization and localization which are often mistakenly conflated. I really liked the numerous examples of common pitfalls when tackling these two. Learning about I18N, L10N, ECMA-402, and ICU was really interesting (as well as the term "numeronym". I gotta sneak this one into casual conversation somehow)

This was also a great overview of the occasional problem summed up by the quote "nothing like it existed, so we had to create it". It was cool to hear about how and why FormatPHP was created to follow patterns established by Format.JS. Excellent talk

This was a great overview of the Development Containers spec and how they can be used within GitHub and VS Code. Chris is highly knowledgeable and was also quick to deliver informative replies when they came from the audience. Should I switch my IDE to VS Code now? Maybe!

This was a great talk by the legendary Sergei Morozov. The technical examples about the problems that Doctrine DBAL has run into and resolved were interesting. I also liked the summary of its duality: DBAL is popular despite its flaws, but it is flawed because it is popular. I also liked the mention of the Tell, Don't Ask principle which should be considered for any integration project

I hadn't heard of Serde before this presentation, but now I want to use it. I loved the history of why it was created and what is can achieve. It illustrated a lot of concepts around serialization that I don't hear about very often. The "Cool PHP Trick" slides were also intriguing. Overall, this was a great presentation. Thank you, Larry!

I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop. It was well organized and informative. Thanks!