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

I probably didn't have enough pre-knowlege to truly take the most from this talk, but still good to learn new things!

A great way to start the conference - looking back on what brought us to here and highlighting how we are the people shaping the future - inspiring and thought provoking - perfect set-up for the subsequent talks.

I love hearing the history of our industry and thinking about the way forward - context is so very important for everything we do in our profession.

Sam is an excellent story teller, and it's always a pleasure to hear her speak!

I really like this talk; I find the relating of things we do every day as developers to more tangible creations fascinating.

Well done in coping admirably with the projector issue!

Awesome.

Great speaking style.
Didn't think I'd learn something, but even had something for people that have been using RegEx for years.

Good talk.

Wouldn't seem like a Google talk, if the other browsers would catchup.

Great technical exploration, really well explained.

Definitely thought-provoking. Chris delivered the content well, with the right level of humour for an otherwise dark thought exercise. For a talk like this, there are no black or white, right or wrong answers - that's the whole point. A clever end to the conference.

Polished presentation. I came in late, so probably missed the bit that Rowan (presumably) works for Google, but that became evident throughout the talk. Good humour, audience participation, well-explained opinions.

The Google Smart Lock seemed to be a new feature (I'd only just started seeing it on my phone and desktop), but my password manager of choice has allowed me to save credentials on one device, and then use them to auto-login on that and other devices and platforms, for web and apps, for a year or two, so the Smart Lock examples felt somewhat redundant to me.

I'd like to see the title of the talk changed though - I almost didn't come and see it, as the title doesn't convey to me, what the talk was actually about.

Only learned one or two small things here (like preg_match_all() existing!), and felt that those new to regular expressions might have felt the examples were tricky to follow - more use of the laser pointer, or moving the mouse on screen, or using coloured patterns might have made it easier to describe to them which "bracket" you were talking about (and distinguish between brackets, braces and parentheses).

The choice of using HTML as the subject of some of the examples, while simplifying the example, did gloss over the practical complications which comes with that.