PHP UK Conference 2010
26 - 27 Feb 2010 at Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, Islington, London, United Kingdom

Another superb talk by the prof.
I loved the ingenuous solution for the "More like this" related document search.

It was interesting from a business angle: "here's how I go into an organisation and perform a code audit". If Damien had focused on that side of things and not on the attack vectors themselves I think it would have been better. I'd like to hear more talks where the presenter is explaining the behind-the-scenes aspects of their job or business.

Asking the audience to find the bugs just didn't work. No one wants to raise their hand and risk looking like an idiot in front of their peers.

Great talk, excellent slides. I really appreciated the straight forward check lists given for each stage of preparing and dealing with the legacy code.

Definitely useful points to feed back to our client services team as to what resources they should be looking at getting hold of at the start of a legacy project.

Thanks!

Motivational, it certainly woke me up and got set the tone for the rest of the conference.

It felt like a random collection of stories and points that lacked structure and flow. Was it a talk about usability, design, engineering, software or philosophy? It was all of those things, which I think was the problem.

Good ideas, good speaker, not a good talk.

Stream of consciousness comment above hits nail on head, but many interesting ideas covered, more structure would have made it more engaging.

I enjoy Fabien's presentation style, covered a lot of material, slightly concerned that use of anon fns in code reduces readability

As mentioned above, proper nuts and bolts stuff, very enjoyable, quite interesting how you can control Skype from php.

Great speaker, great presentation. I would have mentioned that REST has been around for 10 years but it has become popular only fairly recently. Probably not big deal for many, but I just can't help thinking why it took so long.

Very useful points for when we start to move production servers to 5.3 later this year. Looking forward to going thought the examples in the slides when they're put up.