PHPNW 2014
3 - 5 Oct 2014
at Manchester Conference Centre
Talk comments
Really good talk, lots to take back to the office and discuss. I loved the style, very engaging and plenty of real world examples.
Really interesting topic, superbly delivered. Just the right balance of higher level 'overview' and more nitty gritty detail.
This is a question that's occurred to me since: would it be possible to write a 'de-hackificator'? Without actually having thought about it properly, it seems to me it might be easier to go back the other way, from hack to vanilla php. If so, I think that might give people concerned about "the future" some comfort.
This was an excellent talk well worth getting up at 9am for. Konstantin really knows his testing!
This was an excellent talk well worth getting up at 9am for. Konstantin really knows his testing!
Really enjoy Davey's deep dive talks and this was no exception. It was fast/covered a lot, but personally found that OK. I agree that I think you could skip 5.3 (and maybe 5.4), and spend a bit more time on the newer, harder concepts. The detailed explanation of generators and yield was helpful, and (I think) I got a lightbulb moment about what they are and how they work. However, I left asking 'why would I want to use them?', and I think that'd be a really useful addition (if you could skip earlier versions). It wouldn't necessarily need code samples, but some ideas about when and why you might use traits, generators etc. compared to other approaches would be really useful. (And "I can't think of why you'd want to use this" would be a valid answer, but then perhaps could open up to the floor?)
A great talk by Sara. So passionate about HHVM and Hack that I just have to give it a go with our projects
Great start to the conf, inspiring topic and well delivered, as always. But I echo (as a non-wp dev) the concerns about cheap shots at particular frameworks/projects...
Great talk by Rob at #phpnw14.
Now to add HMAC as an authentication method...
I never read the release notes for new versions of PHP, but I will from now on! There's so much to get through that it went a little quickly, but now that 5.3 & 5.4 are dead, is it time to drop them from the deck?
Good fun, and learned an awful lot in the 10 minutes or whatever it was about computering.
Quote of the weekend for me was "Your CPU considered harmful"