PHP UK Conference 2013
21 - 23 Feb 2013 at The Brewery

Also thought this was a great talk. Certainly got me thinking about the possibilities of end-to-end testing and fault management. Well delivered David.

Twitter stream was distracting and amusing at same time. Talk touched on some interesting topics but there wasn't really a lot of lively debate.

Amusing and confidently presented talk that went into some interesting security examples.

For me this talk seemed to gloss over a lot of REST principles without going into many examples of how to do it. Some things, like version numbers in URLs were mentioned without backing up why (another talk said the opposite on this topic). Also the venue didn't help. Too many people in too small a space unfortunately. I was stuck in the second room so may well have lost some of the finer points due to being sat on the floor.

One of my New Year's Resolutions was to learn a new programming language: either Ruby or Haskell. I'd decided on Ruby, because it was more use for working with Vagrant and Capistrano; but after this talk with DSP recommending Haskell, I'm inclined to learn both... hope I can find the time.

Good explanation of the current PHP release schedule and future features of PHP

Excellent talk on using distributed tools to grow a web service and testing for failure. Great to hear a real world case study on how these tools are used at Hailo.

I agree with Mark Fullbrook. Machine learning is not a simple topic but the talk got the points across really well. Slides and presentation were good and consistent. Using a good example like twitter really helped to explain the topic. I really enjoyed the talk.

Interesting hearing about the processes used to prepare APIs for release within such a large organisation, and where users access those libraries using a wide range of methods and languages.

Good venue, staff very helpful, friendly and willing to chat when they have time.