PHP North West 2016
30 Sep - 2 Oct 2016 at Manchester Conference Centre

Good talk with lots of interesting ideas. Could have done with more time in the talk about selling this both to your manager and to other team members. This was partly covered in the questions but should have been in the main talk.

Interesting look at the benefits and some of the technical aspects of continuous deployment & feature toggles. Lots to think about, but I'll be researching further into the feature toggle packages mentioned!

Good talk. I was expecting it to be about getting requirements from customers, not problem solving, but was still an interesting and engaging talk.

A good overview of the PHP world - history, current state and how far it's come.

I had heard of CSPs before this talk but knew nothing about how they worked. Matt gave a great introduction to them, covering what they are, how they help, what they are capable of, downsides, potential issues with implementation & how to introduce them without causing problems. Delivered confidently and clearly.

Really good talk about the internals of PHP and how your source code gets converted to bytecode.
It was mentioned that things like opcache could optimise some of the resulting bytecode, but what I would like to know in a future talk is as a PHP developer, is how can I take this new knowledge and use it to make my code more efficient. I think this final step was missing.

A brief but interesting look at some middleware used on the PHP Minds website. I love discovering new uses for middleware so enjoyed discovering how it had been used here, and some good ideas to take away too.

Interesting talk about a new tool that I'll have to check out. Could have done with more information at the start about how to configure it and then how must to resolve any issues.
With regards to the optional dependencies, could you do something like PHPMD's @SuppressWarnings?

My favourite talk of the weekend. I was surprised at how broad a scope the general principle of Interface Segregation really covers, and picked up loads of really useful techniques and tips from this talk. Really enjoyable.

I really enjoyed this. I like the technical talks more anyway, but have never really looked into how PHP parses and executes code in depth, and Derick provided a great insight into this while still keeping it easy enough to follow along.