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

Objectively a good talk, but the description definitely needs tweaking! From the mention of how MySQL handles things "under the hood", I went into this thinking it would delve into the inner workings of the query optimiser. It was however, just basic tips on indexes etc... stuff that anyone who's worked on anything of any scale (hopefully) already knows!

Excellent talk, and refreshing to start day 2 with a talk beyond entry-level stuff!

The core of the keynote I found interesting. But I found the delivery a bit too sermon-like as others have mentioned. Had the Hebrew been left out the talk could have been shorter and a bit more to the point.

I have nothing against sermons or religious views, but at 9am after a 2 hour journey this talk didn't ignite my attention for the day ahead.

The core was good though.

This one struck a chord with me. First I realise that a perspective of tolerance, understanding and ultimately celebration of diversity is best conveyed by having it come from the voice of speakers like Jenny, who has first hand experience in integrating diversity. Also, as a enthusiast about Communities of Practice, I've been given some ideas in this keynote that I can apply in nourishing and integrating my organisation inner communities with the wider world.

This was the talk I was most looking forward to, as both a fan of annotations (come at me bro) and user of Laravel, but I left very disappointed.

For a talk with such a specific title, I thought the speaker would have assumed a level of knowledge in the audience - however he spent the majority of the talk explaining what annotations were.

This seems to be reflective of a culture at conferences where speakers are afraid to have anybody in the room the room left behind. It's very frustrating.

Clearly one of the best speakers in the event.

I personally would have preferred a deeper Jmeter explanation/demo but I am biased here since it is the tool I am less familiar with. Pretty sure every attendant got something out of this talk.

Very solid talk, like the logging one, congratulations!

I noticed a lot of people are saying it felt rushed. Which is fair, I think that 3 frameworks in the time slot is quite a lot. I think I'll probably change the talk, so there is a little less about Silex and trim some fat off the introductions so we can go into a bit more detail with AngularJs - so people with a little more experience get something out of it.

If this talk was in the form of a 3 hour tutorial so we could focus a bit more diving deeper into each of the technologies, and obviously doing some awesome hands on coding, do you think you'd be interested in coming?

Negative or positive, thank you for your feedback, this stuff is absolute gold. Most of all I want to thank all of you for making this conference such a wonderful experience, and it's nice to hear some of you are playing with these technologies, especially for the first time. There's nothing more exciting as a speaker than to hear someone has listened to your talk and is now using something you mentioned.

inspiring