PHPNW 2014
3 - 5 Oct 2014 at Manchester Conference Centre

Great overview of the tool however due to some of the vendor files for the examples having not copied correctly I did find I got a little behind at times.

This talk was a great introduction and got the point across as to what problem it was trying to solve. Certainly come away with inspiration and an aim to look into this more.

Really good talk, and really was a web server I'd never heard of.

Certainly something I'll be playing around with to learn more.

Matt gave good examples of why this should be looked at by everyone. He covered interesting features and why he thought they made Hiawatha so good.

Thanks!

I really enjoyed this talk and learned a lot. It really reassured me that there is always a way out even of the scariest mistakes.
Everything was explained very well and I don't think I came away with anything that I didn't 'get'.
It was also great that the tutorial was tailored for who was in the room and the topics we wanted to cover. Great job.

I have my doubts about the product.

However I think the speech itself was pretty well delivered especially since he had @everzet sitting right in front of him shaking his head through majority of the speech. That couldn't be exactly easy to deal with.

I've seen Volker speak a few times now and he always managed to convey even the driest of topics with humour and style. I was really excited to see him close out PHPNW14 and he did not let us down.

Volker delivered an awesome closing keynote with the same humour and style I expected/hoped for but used it to talk about really important points that we all need to pay attention to.

An absolutely perfect end to the conference and if I could rate this higher I would.

Thank you!

Volker's talks are special.

His personally seeps into the message and makes it something personal, and something we can all relate with. He's not just a guy on a stage, he's one of us. You can feel his frustration when he talks about things we all feel frustrated about, he jokes about the things we all laugh at, he delivers passion for things that evoke emotions in all of us. He delivers talks for humans, by a human.

The message was sane, relevant, powerful. I personally went away feeling I should stop worrying, do magic, level up. Take responsibility, make decisions, move forward.

Hugely inspiring keynote. Thank you Volker.

Considering this was a talk on the unconf track, thrown together in the small hours the night before I think we need to be a little forgiving.

Ben was clearly nervous, so I wouldn't want to let any lapses in presentation affect a review of this talk.

The subject matter was interesting. Interesting!

Antonios already stole my thoughts: Seperation of concerns applied to people. Allowing people to do their jobs without having to worry about stepping on toes, or breaking the work of others. Streamlining peoples workflows by removing the tedious and technical challenges of integrating work produced by different teams through automation.

Ben, I'd love to see this worked on and evolved into a full talk, with more examples of how you put this into practice in your company.

Feel like we got a peek into an ongoing research project about OO in php.

Looking forward to seeing where this goes.

Lets not mince words, Derick is a man who knows his shit when it comes to debugging PHP.

I had the opportunity to sit with him during the Hackathon as he put the final touches onto the work he presented during this talk, he wasn't lying when he said "I finished this last night".

Really really (really) looking forward to the new path analysis features he presented. The talk could have been quite justly titled "Your code coverage is a lie". Dericks work here is hugely important for all of us trying to build robust applications. I struggle to comprehend how many collective man-hours he has saved us.

The only disappointment was his coverage of phpdbg. Dismissing it with a "I couldn't get it to work". Both phpdbg and xdebug are important tools with slightly different applications, it would be great if Derick and Joe could find some common ground and share features to make both as powerful as possible.

Informative and inspiring.

More!