PFCongres 2013
13 - 14 Sep 2013 at Cursus- en vergadercentrum Domstad

Thanks for sharing this great little trick. You should put into a blog post :)

Awesome talk, I can so relate to many things said. Thanks for sharing and hope to see your talk at other conferences as well but maybe then turned into a more generic work-life balance talk (hint: phpbenelux has their cfp open ;))

Very good talk on the background of REST and a lot of practical information on how to implement a REST API.

Just a pity that there was way too little time to go through all of the material.

Keep up the good work, Joshua!

Please accept my humble apologies for any raucous laughter I generated at the game night... In my defense: it was my first encounter with Cards Agains Humanity!

Doing an offline game-night after a conference was nothing short of brilliant by the way.

Beer. 'Nuff said.

-- to people who don't stay after a conference, please do - it's great.. talk to at least 3 complete strangers!

Jesse does a good talk (maybe a bit too fast), but to me it did not feel like the "crown" on a good congress day. It's always interesting to get a look in someone else's kitchen, but it was a bit too high-level and it did not inspire me.

Jeroen got bit by "live demo" and a slot that allowed no room for expansion whatsoever, right before the closing keynote.
Content-wise I think the main point was that there was a change in how to *set up* debugging with PHPStorm and Zend Server, while I think that should have been just a side-note. The title was, after all, "Advanced debugging with PHPStorm and Zend Server"...

This was a well executed talk, I think this subject needs more and more attention. Programming (in PHP) hasn't been around that long - but certainly long enough to have a large group of people who got into and are now parents currently combining "programming and parenting". Not only the mothers :-)

I felt every emotion you discribed contributing to OS , I'd say you hit that part out of the park! The interactive open-source talk was an excellent idea for this talk. The slides where really nice and well prepared.
To improve the talk, I'd say skip the Vagrant/setup bit. I think most developers are capable of getting a project going and if not, a small segment on Vagrant isn't going to help them *that* much. As for the nerves, they where certainly noticable but I hope you get to do this many many more times in the future!

I think it was brave to come out and do a sponsored (unconf) talk. You came right out and said it too, which made it ok in my book.
As for content, I think you missed the target audience a bit... if the work sucks, having huge well-known clients does nothing to make a developers heart beat faster. So go more in-depth on the techniques next time. Not everyone is using wordpress with composer and sass!

*one point for Willem-Jan (I think) who called you out on using "beautiful" and "SOAP" in a single sentence.