PHP Yorkshire 2019
11 - 13 Apr 2019 at University of York

lunch was great, queue moved quick, staff friendly, lots of seats, food was really nice.

this was a really good addition to the schedule, one of my favourite sessions of the day, a roller-coaster of anticipation, confidence, panic as we marked our answers.

/me digs out his old php exam notes :s

Clinton is clearly knowledgeable and this shows in the talk. At times he clearly goes off of the beaten track recalling past conversations that help make a point (clearly not giving too much away)

Clinton teaching style clearly shows and he engages with the audience when comments are made and is happy to take on board points or clarifications from others.

One negative might be some of the content that could not be covered. Some of this might have been due to mis-calculating the time required for each section or alternatively due to times going off the beaten track. Could be worth reviewing the sections and removing some of the nice to haves and maybe have these as reading material in the notes for the audience at a later time.

Something I would really love to see but would likely be a workshop would be scenario based and dealing with an incident from start to finished (obviously simplified to fit the time constraint).

a few talks during the day were interrupted by people shouting questions/comments, it might be worth adding a note in the opening address that unless the speakers says says its ok, people should keep questions till the end, or at least raise their hand instead of just talking

Larry is clearly passionate about the subject matter. This however came across as aggressive and confrontational at times (this was even more evident in the Q&A).

Please remember that just because a change in business model would work for some industries this does not mean it would work for all.

I also wonder if Larry actually puts this into practice himself. For example is the Platform.sh stack completely open? I suspect not (and looking at their Github also suggests not).

a great talk for someone looking to implement a new api, covering all the main areas you need to know. having built a fair few apis it was nice to hear another company are doing things in the same way :)

It was an awesome workshop with lots of new ides to implement at work.

I think this was a good talk about creatig modular architectures with a lot of good advice, such as hooking in to the DI container to provide registration and configuration for plugins, and event managers for coordination of plugins. I'd have like to have seen a bit more in the way of ways to manage such a huge number of events that must be used in such a system, and how to prevent so many plugins wanting to modify the same content or react to the same event treading on each other so much.

This was a really interesting talk about the best ways to manage pull requests and the discussions and reviews around them. There were some really interesting ideas in here and suggestions about how to review code, deal with a PR that is never going to pass and getting the best out of people and code when accepting PRs too. Will certainly be putting a lot of this into practice where I can!

This was an excellent session, a great way to remind people that being very explicit with code is important, as ambiguity and relying on type juggling can lead to some very unexpected consequences at times! It was great that so many people in the room were unconfortable trying to answer questions that we all should know really. There were some questions I got right for the wrong reasons, some I got wrong and really should have known better!