PHP UK Conference 2014
21 - 22 Feb 2014 at The Brewery

Great as usual from Morgan - very clear introduction to MVCC as well, in a way that made it understandable from the point of view of any database.

Very helpful review of the library, and the difficulties with 118n in general. Given the scope of the problem and the tools available there were always going to be bits left out, but I thought what was described was a good selection of the most useful and widely applicable parts of intl.

Very entertaining talk, and pitched just right to open the second day of the conference in an energetic way.

Very enjoyable and fun talk and a great way to start day. I loved the entertaining, nostalgic bits about PHP 3 dev and mistakes in the past but did feel it was a bit short and could have paid a bit more attention to the future (as the title suggested it would).

Overall it eased me into the day perfectly.

For you had just been hacked for the very first time and you had just heard this talk it would be one of the most useful things you had ever seen. However if you have been running a server which hosted wordpress/joomla/etc website for any length of time you probably had discovered all this methods yourself (with much banging your head on the wall).

What was really really interesting though was some of the recommended solutions from the audience, I almost think it would be useful to hold a talk like this more as a debate and let people share ideas

Beth did present very well, listed some great resources and provided very techniques to anyone in the room who has not yet had experience with this stuff.

Well presented, good talk (although not a fan of 2 presenters either).

Although I was glad it wasn't a sales pitch, would have liked to have seen a little bit of "app engine is better than AWS/someone else/ because of XYZ".

(and it was quite funny that the last talk in the rackspace track was about app engine!)

Thanks.

Great talk. Presented very well and confidently and I really did feel that I was in the room with someone that knew more about MySQL (which I have used every day for ~12 years) than anyone else I have ever met. And as a bonus Morgan answered every question which was thrown at him with clear and helpful answers.

I choose this talk as I have an interest in this sort of stuff, however there were a few reasons where I feel that is just didn't live up to what I had hoped for:

* It was more of a description of the library that Derick had written (i.e. this function does this and this function does that). I really would have preference more indepth information on the algorithms and just a mention that the library exists if I want to use them. It seemed more like just showing off that he had written a library.

* Very very limited scope, the stuff about working out the shortest distances on the surface of the earth was probably the only useful thing, the stuff about the moon and sunrise could be use for gimicky, dynamic backgrounds on a website, all the rocket stuff was completely useless in PHP (at this point in time) and with out more theory it was not very interesting.

* Would have been much more interesting in a language which can be interacted with in real time. If it was done in Javascript for example you could model the rockets and have them flying about the screen, however PHP currently doesn't really provide any libraries for real time graphics.

* Too much Kerbal Space Program footage, some people may have like it and I have wanted to see what is is like to play however I didn't really think it had much place here at the conference. The short videos were fine but the full flight one had nothing to gain from it and had no real relevance.

I do understand using a language such as PHP to test out formulas, methods, physics and ideas for yourself, I do it all the time, but it has very limited scope to share that test code with others imho

Interesting and engaging talk which was very well presented with some great funny moments. As a talk on deliberate practise and attitude to adopt in order to further your skills I think it was 5 star. However I feel there was quite a lot of focus on the transform priority premise yet probably didn't cover it enough for people who aren't aware of it to really understand what it was about. Also it only mentioned 4 transformations but there are more than 10 and in order to make the most of it I think you need to be at least aware this more of the transformations exist so you can look them up.