PHP South Coast 2017
9 - 10 Jun 2017 at Action Stations

The talk was definitely very Chrome oriented, it would have been nice to hear a little more about the support in Firefox and Edge.

It was good to hear about how the autocomplete functionality works and how you can automatically sign users in across devices.

I enjoyed the audience interaction, even if I didn't put my hand up when asked if the audience did. :)

Thanks Rowan!

I didn't see all of this talk, but Amo spoke very clearly and at a good pace. There was perhaps a bit too much back and forth between the IDE and the terminal, however this did reinforce the idea of doing TDD so not sure how else this could have been done.

If there was a way to reduce the amount of window switching/scrolling required this would enable more things to be covered.

Also, very brave to do live demos!

Thanks Amo!

The talk delivery was clear and consistent. It was good to have a real world example of how to use event sourcing and why, though it would have been nice to see a bit more code as not everyone would have been able to make the hands on session. That said, I think it may have been difficult to fit all of it in during the time.

Thanks Emily!

A very informative talk on a subject I imagine a lot of people simply gloss over or avoid. It was easy enough to follow for most parts.

It was good to find out exactly how confusing MySQL is when it comes to unicode, I hadn't realised how many places that the encoding needs to be specified and for why they need to be set.

Thanks Andreas!

Very thought provoking talk tackling a subject that I imagine most people would rather not think about. It was good to be reminded that as developers/engineers we all have a responsibility to think ethically and think about how technology can be used for bad, and what we can do about it.

If I was to make any suggestion, it would be that perhaps some of the analogies could have been thought of before the talk rather than on the spot. This may have made them a bit clearer.

It did go a bit dark at points, especially when the avocado at toast was put at risk, but this was the point of the talk.

Thanks Chris!

This talk really helped put things into place for me when it comes to how Behat can be used to model the domain layer, and can still be used to drive tests at the UI layer after this. It was good to find out how Behat and phpspec can be used together and it was also good to have the reasons explained as to why examples are important.

I hope to use this knowledge at work to implement client projects more effectively and closely aligned to expectations.

I would love to see slides up here :)

Thanks Ciaran!

Learnt a lot of things I didn't realise PHPCS does, such as sniffing for TODO comments and how to report on them.

It might have been good to know how the JS/CSS sniffs work, and how JS sniffs compare with a JS tool like jshint/jslint/eslint. That said, it felt like this talk already had a lot of information in it.

I understand the talk had previously been given in a shorter duration, however I thought the pace of the talk was ok as this allowed time to think about what was being said.

It was good to know about the relevant RFCs, such as 7807. It would be interesting to know how they compare with the JSON API spec at http://jsonapi.org/format/

Well delivered talk. I initially thought this would cover things I mostly already knew, but I was proved wrong as I discovered a number of things I wasn't aware of. The parts on improving performance, conditionals, named back references and the x flag were interesting/new to me.

I did think that perhaps there should be a caveat mentioned when parsing HTML with a regex, as this approach seems a bit brittle when compared with an HTML parser.

In summary this was accessible to both beginners and those more familiar with regexes.

Thanks Liam!

A really interesting and useful talk. A good introduction to content security policies.
I've seen Matt speak before and he is a calm, confident and informative speaker. I like his style.