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

I enjoyed it - felt a bit rushed sure, but a fair bit of ground was covered

Entertaining with a serious message - inspiring stuff

I really enjoyed the talk. It really demanded your attention from start to end, which I think was the point. You couldn't just sit and gloss over every statement, because every statement needed analysing as to what you thought of it. I've also found my code much easier to manage now I've put everything into one file. Top tip.

A very good discussion on open source and php in general.

Some good points on related issues as well for exams diversity in open source and php. Sexism was a hot topic at the conference due to the PHPness tshirt but it was pointed out that diversity isn't just about someone's sex.

A great talk and opened my eyes to other possibilities of locating issues. Of course requires pre planning so the information is collected. You are quite right looking at logs may not actually show you the bigger picture. For example the situation you described with the update and the influx of forum posts may take quite a long time to identify it was due to a new release using other methods especially if the support staff are separated from the developers and releases.

Oh and a quick question which I don't think got answered in the talk no sitting on the fence now

Do you like logs?

This was a talk that interested me greatly. The biggest downside for me however was the lack of time. Jenny was obviously rushed and essentially rushed off after 45 minutes (from an organiser point of view this was understandable). I would have loved to have seen the whole talk as intended which would have stopped the jumping around slides that went on.

The persona tools mentioned certainly look interesting and I may look these up.

Is there a recording anywhere of the full talk?

A very good talk. I personally have never used vagrant but it certainly looks interesting and helps standardise environments. Your talk has made me wish to try it now.

A very good thought provoking keynote. It did get confusing at times with the sarcasm but this also made you sit up and listen

I really hope there wasn't anyone who took everything at face value. That could be I retesting if listening into the conversation with their manager :p

Oh and an FYI zend studio 10 creates mobile apps from php and directly interfaces with the likes of Xcode in the mac. Php is growing up ;)

Although this was meant to be a debate the only piece of contention was wether people who use frameworks should analys and know the inner guts of their chosen framework.

Some choices such as attendees having nothing to drink and the I un-moderated twitter board were obviously learned from by the next day.

Very interesting talk that touched on how memory is allocated by php and how making some decisions causes unexpected memory issues. The speak obviously knew the subject matter and delivered this in a way that although knowledge of what a zval was you still got the gist