PHP UK Conference 2016
18 - 19 Feb 2016 at The Brewery

Talk comments

John Noel at 20:16 on 20 Feb 2016

Inspiring and funny and hits close to home, a superb way to start the second day of the conference and a sterling keynote.

on Imposter Syndrome and Individual Competence

Jo Carter at 19:47 on 20 Feb 2016

Although I disagreed with some of the content, I agree that this was a well thought out and presented talk.

A couple of mini points:
- Make it clear on your slides which things are "to avoid" and which are "do this" - because it wasn't always clear - and sometimes I missed this due to the fast pace of the talk (not too fast, but after lots of talks it was a lot to take in)
- Clearly the result of a language barrier, as English is probably the only language that doesn't gender it's nouns - but please use "they" instead of "he" when referring to developers and DBAs etc, thank you.

on Doctrine ORM Good Practices and Tricks

Jo Carter at 19:42 on 20 Feb 2016

Extremely well presented talk, pacing and pitch were perfect.

The only tiny improvement would be, as someone else mentioned, to highlight the conclusion as bit more.

on Imposter Syndrome and Individual Competence

Stoyan Rangelov at 18:57 on 20 Feb 2016

An amazing talk! Very useful information based on the experience.

on Real-Time Data Pipelines

Jo Carter at 18:56 on 20 Feb 2016

I always love Lorna's talks. They make me so excited to get out there and use the new tech. Last year it prompted me to upgrade my personal servers; this year, I'm going to be setting up a PHP7 dev server at work so we can use the latest version.

Also, spaceship Spaceship SPACESHIP!

on What To Expect From PHP7

Jo Carter at 18:54 on 20 Feb 2016

Very powerful talk. I was so happy that this was the one to open the conference.

This topic is supposed to make people uncomfortable, this is why it is vital to talk about.

on The Code Manifesto

Stoyan Rangelov at 18:54 on 20 Feb 2016

It was just Brilliant!!!

on MySQL 5.7 + JSON

Stoyan Rangelov at 18:51 on 20 Feb 2016

That was a perfect talk, it gave me a lot of new ideas how to refactor an old code!

on Eating spaghetti with Symfony

Gary Hockin at 16:00 on 20 Feb 2016

I struggled to get into the talk, but judging by the other comments that reflects more on me than on the speaker. If I can give constructive criticism, Liam spoke a little quick in places that left me (even as a native English speaker) struggling to work out what was being said. I also felt that the content was a tiny bit preachy, and didn't push the benefits to the contributor of contributing back to OS.

These are small complaints in a well delivered talk however.

on Got 15 minutes? Then give something back!