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

I really enjoyed this talk - some great advice on ensuring that applications are portable and can be used on common cloud platforms, and lots of best practice to improve the security and maintainability in general.

Perhaps some of the advice was a bit more opinion than fact ("Don't use Amazon RDS" - it's still just MySQL/Postgres/other at the end of the day?) and I think the concernes about lock in are a bit overstated - it's important to use open standards and abstractions but I see nothing wrong with proprietary tools that implement those standards IMO, they still enable switching away.

I thinj this was a good introduction to the topic, but perhaps tried to tackle too much, meaning much of the information was skipped over quite quickly. I'm reasonably familiar with how neural networks work already, but some concepts like gradient descent, sigmoid functions etc were mentioned without really explaining why these things are used or needed.

Nice location for the after party.

Board games were terrible idea. I kept losing

I've had to sleep on it before submitting feedback on this particular talk.

With hindsight, the subject of the talk was very thought provoking but I felt the delivery was too passionate (bordering on aggressive). To be completely honest, my initial response was "here's someone else telling me what to think and that everyone else is wrong".

Personally, I feel the subject is better suited to a cut down talk with a longer Q&A at the end as it would start a fascinating and engaging debate.

My mind hasn't been changed but there were questions asked that I can't answer. What I know for certain is I haven't drawn a line under this topic and that's certainly a positive to take from the session.

I loved your way of teaching! It is a complicated topic and you explained it with passion and energy, I understand a lot more about neural networks now, so that's cool!

The gifs in the beginning of the talk made me feel a bit dizzy, and some slides could be difficult to read. So the one thing I'd advice you to work on next time is your visual presentation. Sometimes simple is better.

You delivered the talk with a very clear voice and good mimic. You're a natural on stage! :D

Got all the information we needed, kept it short and sweet. Thanks! :)

I really loved the introduction and business ideas, it was a fun way to start the talk! The history and how you explained the difference between open source and free software which I think many mix up - Also brilliant.

A star is subtracted because I do not think the way you delivered this talk in quite an aggressive way fit this conference, or the European audience. That's a style of speaking that makes many (including me) quite uncomfortable.

BUT I still agree with the message of this talk 110%, and it would be amazing if we had a world where we had more control of our own digital destiny. And maybe one day we will get there? This talk makes one think.

What I'd expect from this talk! Delivered in an energetic and clear way. The problem details is definitely something I will take with me home from this conference. Thank you! :)

Thanks! I think this was a really brilliant way of showing developers that we really do need to be more careful! :)

I loved that it was quiet so we could actually sit down and talk, and the boardgames was a good idea too :)