PHP North West 2016
30 Sep - 2 Oct 2016
at Manchester Conference Centre
Talk comments
This was a wonderful companion talk to the previous topic (in the same track) of Imposter Syndrome, since you gave very practical advice how to build up the supportive environment that enables (yes, love that word!) individual developers to grow and become their very best. I do agree with other comments that the talk would be even better if you include tips on how to convince your manager/etc that it's a good investment. However, that was the only thing I was missing and you seemed to know the answer in Q&A: it really wouldn't take much to add and make this talk a full 5 stars for the next round!
Very good talk, delivered seemingly effortless, with a lot of technicalities and a bit of humor on the side.
The talk is very well structured and that's probably why everything was so easy to follow.
I am in awe of how good you are at explaining the intricate technical details of almost anything.
Excellent talk, especially for your first time presenting! As a newbie coder, it was incredibly heartening for me to hear that people who have already been in the field for so long also deal with Imposter Syndrome - and most importantly, that it can be beat! You gave some great practical advice for how to handle it, definitely considering some now (like blogging). Thank you for sharing your experiences so openly and helping others become more aware of both this phenomenon AND ways to handle it!
While I knew of the FIG, I wasn't aware of the full story behind it: you gave an excellent overview of its history and current events. It was also very enlightening to hear you explain what the newly passed FIG 3.0 structure is going to be like, including all the reasoning behind the changes. Plus your excitement for this milestone was just incredibly infectious, great job!
Great overview of password best practices, concise and practical. Seeing password strength illustrated by entropy scores was a really good way to make this issue more tangible! While I definitely recommend this as a full talk for future tech conferences, I think you'd also find a good audience in non-tech events where people are even less aware of these rules. Please keep spreading the word!
Excellent talk Gary. It was the perfect ending to the conference.I really enjoyed learning about your career path and how you became the Developer you are today. Many of the points you touched on made me realise I had gone through some of the same expeirances, especially the one where you suddenly realise you are not alone. This is year was my 5th year at the PHPNW conference and your talk is easily up there in the top 5 talks ever. I am really inspired and plan to increase my open source contributions as much as I can. Thank You
It's difficult to put into words how good this talk was. A fitting end to a brilliant conference.
By telling his personal story, Gary showed how getting involved in the community, helping others and contributing can essentially be so rewarding in many areas.
It could not have been delivered any better. He kept the audience totally engrossed and took them on an emotional rollercoaster with a lot of hilarious moments entwined with some hard-hitting meaningful messages.
It was an honour see this talk in person and has truly inspired me to kick on with open source myself. Hope to see this as a closing keynote at many other conferences in the future. Thanks Gary!
I thought that I will be lost in first 5 minutes, but no. The content was well prepared and explained very nicely. I learned a lot from it, about tokenizer and how the php is translated into opcode.
Really good talk explaining the first milliseconds of https connection. Shown some good examples and easy to follow. Could go more deeply into curiosities like heartbleed or http2
I have to agree with Rich Sages comment: I found the talk easy to listen to and I got a better understanding of the Expressive Stack but I also felt I had missed a bit all of a sudden. For me it was for instance unclear why you were using an (unknown to me) doctrine-orm-module in stead of just the doctrine/orm package and configuring that to go a long with Expressive (which is probably exactly what the module does?).