Northeast PHP Conference 2015
22 - 23 Aug 2015 at Microsoft NERD Center

Lots of good information with live demonstrations of each. Very technically oriented, not for beginners. Abstract matched the content, which was good. Also glad to see rubber ducking mentioned, it's extremely useful. I'm going to take several of these back to work and talk to our performance engineer.

I've only ended up using these advanced debugging tools a few times in my career to hunt down super weird issues, but it is important for devs to know they have these options. Each tool was well presented and served by a brief demo.

Martin is a really good speaker and it was great to get a bit of insight into the memory footprint of common PHP setups.

It would be a good idea to perhaps focis a bit more on profiling tools such as XHProf, but otherwise I really enjoyed it.

Informative,

I've been to several talks on this subject, but how exactly to put this into practice didn't "click" until I went to Brian's talk. I've spent the conference since this talk working on my first unit test whenever possible. Many thanks to Brian; I'd recommend this talk.

While this was a confident delivery by someone who clearly has a good grasp of webservice-oriented architecture, it was a bit hard to tease out the core message of the talk.

I would have liked to have a practical example of how you could build your codebase such that you can easily move services to be web-based in the future.

This was an exciting presentation of PPI. PPI is a forward looking tool which lets you integrate parts of frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel and Aura into your project. The talk also covered how PPI is already using the interopability features in future PSR standards.

A great overview of the general API process, aimed at devs used to the "traditional" way of doing things. More details in terms of implementation, especially regarding libraries that are more appropriate then a full MVC stack, world have been great.