PHPNW 2014
3 - 5 Oct 2014 at Manchester Conference Centre

I thoroughly enjoyed Sara's talk. Despite not knowing too much about the topic prior to the talk, I thought the pace was good - a lot was covered in the time and I certainly left feeling educated and excited about Hack and HHVM.

Anthony's talk was a perfect way to start the conference and its content was definitely thought provoking. The talk delivered a great message that highlighted both the positive and negative aspects of the PHP community.

an interesting talk, well presented, looking forward to giving HHVM a try, if I cant get it to work on my CentOS server :)

a really interesting talk, never really considered the complier when looking at optimisations, I will now.

I really enjoyed this talk, a great real world example of a script we all have on a server somewhere that we keep skipping around.

some great tips on how to go about re factoring code without getting stuck in the rewrite/never deploy cycle we have all gotten a foot stuck in at one time or another.

I really enjoyed this talk, perfect to get my brain back up and running after the one or few beverages the night before.

I probably would have swapped this talk with Daveys Saturday one tho as it would have appealed to a few more people I think not being the hangover slot.

I was a little disappointed with this talk, starting by saying step one in setting up a dev environment is to get a mac always puts me on the back foot. step one should be get a machine you feel comfortable using.

I have a Windows machine at work as thats what I was given and I have all the main tools covered installed locally that work just as well as on my laptop running fedora. felt like a quick windows bashing to get a cheap laugh :/

I was hoping for a bit more on Vagrant and Ansible but as a quick overview of the tools we should be using in daily development this talk covered them all and a few good suggestions at the end I hadnt considered like monitoring logs across multiple servers.

as other have said I think a bit more on phpdbg is needed to show the pro's/con's against sticking with xdebug.

Dericks talks are always informative tho and never walk away without learning something new.

I think everyone in the room will agree Volker was the perfect choice of speaker to end the weekend, some inspiring words and important messages to take away.

have been to a few of Anthonys talks now, always presents the content well bringing the audience with him.

a great choice for keynote speaker