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

Good talk, I'll be trying out some of the tools demonstrated.

Derick is always an entertaining speaker so delivery was as expected.

The content of the talk was good informative, often reinforcing the use of xdebug! (not a bad thing)

The live action and the trace analyser demos were appreciated and will be looked into.

Good talk

I'm giving this talk top marks because it was exactly as the abstract described.

Covered a little history of cvs, origins of git, open source development workflow with github... and some handy more advanced git commands.

I'm not quite sure what others were expecting. If you need more than what was explained in this talk then you are probably spending more time managing your repo than developing!

From the majority of comments, If all talks had a difficulty rating it could help people selecting talks and prevent them being disappointed when they feel it was too basic for them.

Good talk

Best talk of the event for me! The culture at Etsy is something that I'm especially inspired by and interested in. Dan's delivery was excellent and represented his passion for the subject. Really looking forward to hearing him talk again.

I agree with all the positives mentioned above! A great talk.

Granted it doesn't mention PHP, but as a developer you shouldn't need somebody else to tell to you your scripts are using too much memory.... Now you know how to find out yourself before you deploy memory monsters to production!!

Great stuff

Great talk, will be looking over these slides again.

Hi everyone, thanks for the feedback. The conclusion was definitely a little rushed, as they were trying to get me off-stage at that point (it was certainly a lot of concepts to cover in half an hour).

However, I'm pretty disappointed at the fact that the amazing and patently obvious benefits of describing systems as data structures was completely lost on almost everyone in the entire audience. A few examples:

- Statically analyzing programs by query
- Refactoring by query
- Structural diffing of any element to sub-expression granularity
- Analyzing changes over time in (a) what/how APIs are called, (b) what tests would/wouldn't have passed, etc.

In short, we have amazing tools for working with data, but the state of tools for working with code is shit. I'm gonna stop here, because otherwise this is gonna turn into a doctoral thesis...

The delivery of this keynote was very confident, and the concept of getting us to question the way we are working from more than a methodological view was interesting.

But the demo felt like an afterthought and the presentation didn't finish with a 'message' like most keynotes do/should. Maybe it just lost speed after the insightful start.

After a good start, I had expected some clearer conclusions on where programming would go. I felt that there was no real structure. At points, it actually felt that Nate was disillusioned with the industry.

This talk should include a mention of 'for beginners' somewhere. Though an entertaining talk it was a basic one.

For beginners, it would be an invaluable talk! For an intermediate.... Nothing new.