Pacific Northwest PHP (PNWPHP) Conference
10 - 12 Sep 2015 at Impact Hub Seattle

I'm biased because a tweet of mine was featured in this talk, but it was such a great talk to start out with. Not super technical, but more about the motivations behind what we do, and what we should be looking to do in the world with our work. Really got me pumped up and brought the question of "What are you waiting for?" to the forefront for me.

I won't lie, having this be the last educational track session I attended at PNWPHP is probably colouring my perception of it, as I was really flagging energy wise, so my opinion may not be the most valid. It could also be that a lot of what Benji talked about is simply outside my wheelhouse, so I felt that I didn't get much out of it. I do remember taking some notes on build servers and the ideas behind them, and I have a lot of things to look up on my own time.

If you're a little bit more familiar with Continuous Integration and automated testing, I think you'll get a lot more out of this talk than I did.

This is one of three talks I saw Adam give at PNWPHP, and it was interesting, but I definitely felt less engaged during this talk over his other two. I have a rough idea of how ZF2 works, absolutely, but I'm not sure I'm rushing out to build a project with it anytime soon. If ZF2 is a thing you're moving towards, (or possibly even ZF3), this will be worth your while, as all of Adam's talks are.

Larry gave a great talk on the processes involved in modernizing a codebase, and despite not knowing a damn thing about Drupal, I sat with rapt attention the whole time. Great real world examples definitely help to provide hope to those with herculean tasks in front of them.

Being a relative newcomer to the idea of the PHP Community, I'd never heard of Cal Evans. he was just the guy with the PHPArch bingo stickers. You know how they often say you save the best for last? This was no exception, and I think actually proves the rule, full stop.

This talk was touching, inspiring, educational, motivational and just downright amazing. Cal is able to blend his family, the PHP community, and completely unrelated topics into this amazing laser focused... sermon, that will glue you to your seat, fill you with passion for what we do, and make you want to bend over backwards to help anyone who needs it.

If you haven't seen this talk yet, and you have a chance to, see it.

Anthony is incredibly passionate about code security, and it shows in his talks. We went through a lot of examples, though i did feel we covered the same ground a few times. I would have liked to see the actual execution of an attack as outlined in the blurb, rather than just high level discussions of it, but I definitely have some things I need to watch out for, and the enthusiasm Anthony has for the topic made it totally worth while.

This was the first time I've ever seen Phil speak, and he didn't disappoint. (Unless you count the fact that he will not be speaking again anytime soon as a disappointment.)

I've been thinking about looking at contributing to OSS projects, and putting some of my stuff out there, but had no idea where to start, or what I should be doing to ensure the community doesn't light me on fire, and Phil's talk was full of fantastic guidance on what to watch out for and how to be prepared and deal with issues that come up. Well worth the time spent.

This was a great talk. I won't lie, I got a little lost in the middle, but overall, I came out of it with a real sense of excitement about the versatility offered to me by the use of Docker, and that makes it 100% worth it.

Awesome talk. Covering the concept of async development and a specific way to implement it in PHP using ReactPHP all in a one hour talk was a huge challenge, but Jeremy managed to cover a great amount of content quickly in a way that was easy to follow and understand. I'm eager to try out ReactPHP on a project now.

Great talk! I loved the history - as one of the handful of people in the room that had worked with PHP for 15+ years, it was an awesome trip down memory lane. The look towards the future was very encouraging as well.