PHPNW 2014
3 - 5 Oct 2014 at Manchester Conference Centre

Great presentation. Did exactly what it said on the tin.

Would have enjoyed some time going more in-depth about the design decisions of a more advanced API structure; also more items to stop re-inventing wheels such as the oauth2, etc.

This is the first time I've seen Sara talk, and I'm really glad I had the opportunity to do so.

I've not been tempted by HHVM yet, and I went to the talk under the false impression that Hack was not yet production ready. How wrong I was, I think the graph showed around 96% adoption across Facebooks production servers?

Seriously impressed, I think Hack is turning out to be what I want from PHP. It would be selfish to try and force PHP to be what it's not, even more selfish to try and fork PHP and make it do what I want (resonating Anthonys keynote).

Definitely going to make time for this.

Great overview littered with strong opinion on all the latest from php. Also, great slides!

Great introduction to docker.

Great introduction to the concepts with enough pointers to take it to the next level.

Anthony, you're raising the bar for yourself with every talk you give.

I spoke with Anthony afterwards and he was quite touched by how his keynote had such a huge affect on subsequent talks, and indeed became a theme for the entire conference.

I don't think I attended a single talk later on, without a speaker referencing back to "As Anthony said...", to reinforce their own talks.

The message was important, relevant to current events, inspiring, thought provoking and made me personally consider how I contribute and interact with the community.

Thank you Anthony!

Maybe my expectations were wrong when entering this talk, but to me it felt like a summary of the PHP 5.x patch notes since 5.2.

Most of this content has been covered in talks spanning the last 3-4 years, and the practical applications of these new features were very much skimmed over. (There was a lot to fit into the allocated time, so no choice but to skim them)

I think if Davey revises this talk, it would be nice to focus on the more recent changes, and how these "best bits" can make differences to peoples daily toil with practical examples, interesting quirks, pitfalls to avoid etc.

The speaker is clearly passionate and well informed, but personally I'm not so responsive to fact after fact being reeled off a list.

In summary, I think a narrower scope with examples of how people can directly use the improvements in their own code right now, would have been nicer. A taster/teaser of what has already been implemented for PHP 7 would also have been nice to round-off with.

A well structured talk that was presented well, but I agree with some of the others that a mention of refactoring in the title or description would have been useful.

This talk really made me take another look at design patterns. Though provoking.

Perfectly structured and paced talk that did a really excellent job of demonstrating the most widespread security flaws; how they happen, and what you can do to prevent them.
Thought the subject might not be new and it's something you probably have heard of before, I've not yet seen (or read) it presented in as clear a manner as in Gary's talk.
Highly educational as well. Security (alas) remains something that can't be made clear enough. Great job.

Perfect delivery as well, btw.