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

This really was a great talk. A nice opening to the day. No deep code or logic (nice after an early start), but really interesting.
Nice to get insight from someone who was involved very early on.
Interesting stuff about the New York divide and bridge building!
Importantly, there was good insight about the future and some things to keep in mind when engineering software (with or without taking an oath!!).

I really enjoyed this talk. Katy was obviously very passionate about both knitting and programming!
As mentioned, she dealt with the contrast problem on the projector well.
It was nice to have a talk that wasn't *too* tech heavy.
Drew some interesting parallels between knitting and programming - interesting history of punch cards for software.
I get the thing to take away from this is that (surprisingly), there are still actually some markets that haven't been improved or helped with software. If you're looking to break the next big thing, this could be just the idea you were looking for!!

Really enjoyed the examples of things that make seemingly simple optimizations close to impossible, which really helps understand why they aren't (yet) being done.

Firstly, I like the new slide style...
The talk itself was perfectly timed for me - we're quite early in the process of trying to design an API for our services and there is lots of information in here which I can now factor in to this.

Excellent talk from someone who obviously knows his stuff.

My notebook is full of things to consider when next RegExing.

Will be keeping an eye out for more of your talks in the future.

A great talk, really well presented and with a number of take aways which I want to act on straight away (possibly not going to quite achieve that todo list by Wednesday!). It was all presented in an entertaining and relaxed way which helps make the talk really enjoyable.
I did feel it was a little too Google specific - there wasn't too much about how this might work for people who don't use chrome, although this is probably hampered by the somewhat limited support elsewhere.

Chris is a great speaker and a great asset to the community!

Ethics is a subject that needs to be talked about more and I think Chris did a great job of presenting the issues.

Although I've never studied ethics, it has always been of interest to me - there wasn't anything new to me for most of the talk - but for those unfamiliar with ethics this was excellent. I can certainly see why the organisers put it in as a keynote.

I found Chris' reinvention of the trolly problem didn't help describe the problem better or bring it closer to home than the original - I'd be interested in helping come up with a more likely scenario with the same problem that a software engineer may find themselves in.

The sucker punch as the end was the question of whether or not we would take action or not in a difficult situation. As a suggestion, this question could be bought forward in the talk and potentially handed over to the audience for a debate rather than a simple show of hands.

Very informative and entertaining talk on what turns out to be a massive subject.

It's always great when speakers not only show you why you are doing things incorrectly but also how to fix things.

Time was managed much better this year than last year, and it was great to have the organisers and speakers down the front again for a round of applause.

Spectrum IT was very humble and could have used their time to talk about themselves but didn't. Hats off to them for being amazing sponsors.

Would be good to have a second person give out the prizes so we didn't have to wait for James to go up and down the stairs.

This was my second time seeing Rowan talk and he is fast becoming one of my favourite speakers. Great enthusiam for the subject and builds a really nice narrative around his talks.

This talk was always going to be focused around Google and the innovations they are making, but Rowan did a very good job of remaining unbiased and sidestepping some awkwardness when it came to products that do not have these features.

I also liked that he invited questions from the audience throughout the talk - when managed well like this, it can make a big difference to the experience.

The takeaways from this talk have helped with my understanding of the state of play at the moment with these technologies.