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

Very interesting task from a confident and charismatic speaker. It was a tough subject to explain and I think he did it very well. Using a live demo was brave but he rolled with the failure which proved he had prepared accordingly.

Fun talk, quite inspiring, and +100 points for Vim.

There is another XKCD ("Packages") which also happens to fit the theme of the talk :) https://xkcd.com/576/

Liam had a difficult task in closing the Conference talking about a topic touched on by other key notes. He did so with impressive aplomb, and enthusiasm. I felt inspired, and I'm sure I wasn't alone.

I'd expected to learn a bit more about how to use Git itself (I'm a newbie) but, despite not getting exactly what I expected, what I got was a really engaging and interesting take on Git workflow from a talented speaker. Gavin's use of comic book analogies was second to none. Really pleased I attended this talk.

Jordi is a great speaker, but this broke my brain. I'm very new to Regex and I struggled to follow at various points. That said, I did come out of it having decided to learn more about the subject, so it was definitely worth going.

Gary managed to both sell me on using Xdebug and persuade me to try out PHPStorm. A really useful talk that was both interesting and humorous. Another potential sale in the bag.

And I thought it was just me! A really engaging talk that helped get me going for the day (lack of sleep, rather than a hangover), and made me feel great about myself. Jessica combines upbeat and challenging with great precision.

The most hilariously depressing talk you'll hear all year. Every single security misconception was ripped from the still bleeding corpse of my confidence in online security. Thomas used incisive wit and humour to take us on a journey that no doubt culminated in a frenetic rash of patching and updating. Brilliant!

Jordi had me chuckling and sharing his pain throughout this talk. I'm not sure I could have been as calm as he was given some of the comments he mentioned. The talk also inspired me to contribute more on Github. It's been on the to do list for far too long.

I personally disagreed with Kayla about positive discrimination. I think it can be a good thing, but is often mismanaged by people who don't really buy into the concept of truly addressing discrimination.

That said though, Kayla made an incredibly strong and well structured case for tackling discrimination in the industry, in an engaging and interesting fashion. An excellent key note that I'm sure made people think.