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

I enjoyed the talk and it was straight to the point and relevant

Interesting story, although I felt there could have been more prep and some work on getting the stories/presentation to flow from one slide to another.

I would have also preferred the advertised talk or to have known ahead of time to evaluate which track to attend.

For covering a difficult topic, James did a great job.

Recommended for those that aren't scared to look under the hood.

I enjoyed this talk a lot! I personally have thought about this a lot before, and personally I thought that python would've been the PHP we know today.

Great insight and information to back his statements was given.

Thanks Ben.

This talk was fascinating, although I will admit it did get quite complicated at some points. I probably wasn't the right target audience (since I am not interested into delving THAT deep into PHP's inner workings, and playing around with them) but it was still great to get insight into how PHP 7 has changed to an AST, what it is, how it works and what developers can do to leverage it.

It was also great to see the tools with some examples, and writing our own compiler through the slides was an interesting exercise to get an idea of the logic needed. Overall this is an great talk, and I'd recommend it for more senior developers and anyone interested in understanding PHP's inner workings (and the AST especially)

This talk was really interesting, and painted a great picture of what it is like to run a major open-source project from a developer and project manager standpoint. I enjoyed hearing about the ups and downs of running Composer all these years, and especially all the coding issues they had to work around.

Overall a very enjoyable talk, it would have been interesting to maybe hear more about the management side if Jordi has anymore points or stories from that point of view, but either way I'd highly recommend this talk for developers and especially anyone looking into or running a growing open source project.

I really enjoyed this talk. Ben did a great job of talking about some history of PHP, himself as a developer (which I'm sure a good portion of us could relate to) and some "what-ifs" surrounding what would have happened if PHP didn't exist. The slides were also nicely formatted and laid out, it made following the talk a breeze.

This was the perfect talk to end of a busy day: light hearted, fun and allowed you to just sit back and enjoy the ride.

This talk was interesting but I didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped I would. Although it was interesting to hear and some interesting ideas were put forward (like their usage of Slack) I just expected more topics to be covered based on the name of this talk and blurb.

My last criticism is that the slides are too "boring", when they just contain one word each for most of them, it wasn't easy to maintain my attention span, bullet points would be appreciated :)

This talk was great for covering what a company should consider when transitioning from a monolithic architecture to a microservices one (which my employer is doing at this moment in time). Everything was well explained and it was nice to see how one entity went about doing it, and the benefits they saw. The only thing I would have liked is possibly some more explanations about how things were swapped over, what the transition was like etc. But on the whole, an enjoyable and informative talk none the less.

great talk,

I think it was great to learn about so many types of testing, I am not sure if I expected the wrong things here but I would have liked to see the processes like you mention tests scenarios - that you or someone has taken to do testing and what you should be testing for. I do understand again that there are different depths that can be delved into when testing - this is subjective. however I can still remember most of what was asked and the talk it self, so good job!