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

I'd agree with James, that the live demo didn't really add much. Personally I'd have liked to see a bit if discussion on /why/ something was slow in mysql and what properties of a nosql makes a nosql database able to do the same query much faster. That would make it easier to relate you examples back to problems we may be having and be able to decide if nosql is an appropriate solution.

Thanks for the nice feedback!

The intention of the talk was not to discourage anyone from trying all these things but to warn you about the new problems that appear when you introduce them in your architecture.

Glad that most of you found it entertaining as well!

Very well done. I gained a lot of respect for WordPress from this presentation.

I'm sorry, but this just didn't work for me - there was absolutely no connection with the audience and the talk seemed pitched at the completely wrong level - the content seemed aimed at hardcore Fielding-level REST-heads who already know what the Richardson maturity model is and why you'd want to use HATEOAS and things like that.

What the audience in the room really wanted was something more along the lines of the Apigility talk I think - something more like an actual run through of how to use the bundles on a day-to-day basis and some tips/tricks.

This did seem a bit basic to me - I was expecting there would be something special/unique about the Time Out set up that warranted a talk.

The blurb mentioned that it was going to cover, quote "peculiarities for PHP and Symfony2 projects", but it didn't?

Fun and informative. Branch coverage sounds like it will be really useful once it arrives.

Not sure about the amount of time spent on VLD - it's a clever tool, but I'm not sure how relevant it is to an audience like this (I can't think of a situation where I'd be tempted to turn to it, maybe others are different)

Agree with the comment above about switching between PHPUnit and PHPSpec being confusing.

But a thought-inspiring talk that I'll probably revisit once the video goes up.

This was a very different talk to the other non-keynote sessions I attended - no concrete takeaways at all, but that was kind of the point. Just interesting to hear about the challenges that organisations at that kind of scale encounter and the approaches they take to dealing with them.

Just a rant. But what a rant! Amazing.

As someone who's had "we need a dashboard" on my todo list for a couple of years I found this talk really informative - it's going to save me hours of research.

Big thumbs up for the live demo - showed that getting "something" up and running is actually relatively painless.