PHP UK Conference 2015
18 - 20 Feb 2015 at The Brewery

Was a good and relatively light way to end the day which raised some interesting ideas

A refreshingly human and personal presentation style, especially following Yitz's talk. I really appreciated the enthusiasm with which the new features were described, with practical examples.

Strong delivery, positive keynote, good humour - thanks

Raised some interesting points for consideration

Took me a while to get into the speaking style, which was unexpectedly slow, but beneath that there was clearly a huge depth of wisdom that was very useful. The message about mentoring came across loud and clear.

My biggest value takeaway(s) from the conference came from this talk and revolved around how to test integrations with third party services, and how further abstraction can make your code more testable.

The talk was well paced and delivered in understandable terms.

I know it is hard on the main track but I would've enjoyed a little more 'live demoing' - maybe taking a real life example and writing the specs/solution to that with audience participation. Maybe something that would be suited to a smaller room, though!

Introduced some ideas to review even for experienced DBAs

As I said on twitter - this was presented with a good level of humour and with confidence. Even though many of the issues in the list are things that have been on my radar for a few years, I wasn't bored at any point throughout, and I would happily attend another talk from Gary in future conferences. Well done

Good talk and well presented. I believe the description suggested more advanced content. Would have been good to see some live examples

I think that for me this talk suffered for two main reasons

a) The introduction to Apigility one earlier in the day was much more exciting, as it showed how easy writing a RESTful API can be - in comparison, the technologies presented here seemed to make the job really quite arduous in comparison

b) The presentation style wasn't as engaging as other talks and I struggled to maintain concentration.

These two points aside, I have a lot of respect for anyone that stands and presents complex subjects like this to a group of peers - and there was no doubting your knowledge and experience in this area.