PHP South Africa
26 - 29 Sep 2017 at Allan Gray, V&A Waterfront

Great talk and very insightful. Now we not only know that php 7 is faster but also why. James had a very good way of explaining this really difficult topic.

I enjoyed this talk. It was a good reminder to just be a good co-worker and take part in the community.

I liked the talk, and seeing the subject line may have given me a wrong idea.

I thought there would be practical or more hands on type of presentation. i.e showing me how easy it is to replace a "flat tyre" with your tool(s) has more effect than telling me about the process one takes. basically I would have preferred seeing the tool in action.

Still good talk.

More developers and managers need to hear this talk. Having worked in many collaborative environments I found myself nodding and smiling through most of it, while just wishing quite a few people I've met in my career could hear the points being raised. Some great ideas and concepts about how to get along with people, and why you should make the effort. This really was the "How to win friends and influence people" for IT!

This workshop served as a great intro to Laravel. Highlighting its features, and how one can use it to quickly get an idea in a live environment with little trouble. The reason I didn't give this 5/5is because I felt there was too much to cover in this workshop for a 2.5 hour window, that the speaker ended up going so fast a lot of people who tried to participate with him ended up having to watch and listen rather because they couldn't keep up. Some of my co-workers who were with me (and new to Laravel) found it very informative but very quickly lost track when trying to keep up. Otherwise a great demonstration, I'd suggest just either cutting some ideas or expanding the length slightly.

I was looking forward to this workshop, being a typical 'composer install/update' user of composer, and not having much exposure to its full capabilities. It was really informative and the concepts introduced were great to see and ponder over. The only reason this didn't get a 5/5 is because of the lack of practical exercise which I was expecting from a workshop. So this was more of a talk than a workshop to me, and after 2 hours without much audience engagement it did start to drag a little bit. But I still enjoyed hearing the ideas, and the practical joke at the end was a nice way to introduce newbie developers to the world of contributing to an open source project.

I'd recommend this talk for developers who only run 'composer install' type commands, and would like to learn more about what you could do with composer.

This was a really great talk, it was a nice introduction into chatbots and the concepts of chatops. Tessa was a great speaker and made good use of letting attendees catch up by mentioning other tools and fun anecdotes of her travels.The only downside to this workshop was the very simple nature of the practical, but on the plus side the tools we used opened up many possibilities for future projects. Overall I really enjoyed this session, and would recommend it to other developers.

Although I was a bit perplexed by all the heavy code on the screen, James did a good job in simplifying things and explaining just how AST contributes to the higher performance gains with PHP 7.

Not sure I will be coding my own compiler any time soon, but what I will take away from this talk is an appreciation to the advancements that have been made and spending time reading up on all the underlying technologies that a code-pleb like me is not generally aware of!

Great talk James!

Ben is the kind of guy you want to start chatting to in a pub!

Although the concept of no PHP was kind of dystopic (is that a word?), Ben used his humor and presentation of some facts and history of alternate languages to get our minds thinking and made for an entertaining and enlightening experience.

Having drawn the short straw and being the last speaker of the day, it goes without saying that Ben gave a great talk that perfectly wound down the day and we all hope that PHP will still be there in the morning when we wake up! ;)

A very interesting talk indeed.

Although Slack is just a chat tool to some, Ettiene and the guys over at Superbalist have taken it to a whole new level by using it as an internal support mechanism, an overseer and monitoring tool of the status and health of all running applications, servers and more.

What I took away from this talk is that sometimes you can make really good use of a relatively simple tool by supercharging it and making it work for you, in more ways that one!