PHPBenelux Conference 2014
24 - 25 Jan 2014 at Hotel Ter Elst

I didn't find it that much entertaining, rather painful actually that all of these techniques suffer from lack of adoption by programs many people still think of as browsers. Luckily decent browsers do support them and good to know that the best choice of the moment are Websockets. This is what I was hoping for, because I always go to talks about html5 webserver connectivity and was dissapointed in the past that there was not enough support for them. So thank you!

I also agree that the live coding was great. One big ouch: I think I violated this 'sop' in a recent script, because it seemed to work, but then I didn't need the data coming back, I just needed the data being processed on the receiving end. Not sure if my solution works in all so-called browsers now, so another thing on my todo list :-)

Clear introduction to PHP testing with PHPUnit and some DDD principles. Tobias is an enthusiastic speaker that really catches your attention.

Especially liked your explanation of cipher negociation. I never knew much about https, so now I know a lot more.

Really interesting talk, i didn't have a clue some of these things existed before the talk, and afterwards i really wanted to run some analysis tools on the systems we are using to see how they score. (and how we can improve them)

I am taking one thing home in particular: "DO NOT SPOON FEED". Felt kinda guilty, because that's exactly what I'd been doing the day before. I liked the slide where you paired the rabbits and cats in matching colors. Your tone is really kind and encouraging. The cats fit better with this than star wars in my opinion, so it's a good choice.

Really interesting to have an overview of some of the SPL goodies (and quirks) in one talk. After your talk i really wanted to go check out the SPL and dive into it again

You're a very competent speaker, even if you don't GROK the material a 100% (thanks Sarah for sidenotes!). The talk was awesome, and it's always a pleasure to see someone explaining php internals really well. Here be dragons!

This was a really comprehensive session. The point was clear, you were giving the audience a good step-by-step explanation of why you were refactoring in a certain way, and overall the way you did it was really good. Too bad we ran out of time, i would've loved to continue the session. Mad props for using Vim!

You lost me for a moment with the Chain of Responsibility, but all other patterns were completely clear to me after the workshop, i really enjoyed the talk and the way you made difficult concepts sound really simple and clear. Code examples were efficient too. thanks!

One of my favorite talks.

I liked the big red "do not...", one remark tho: while all this is true for your "professional" carrier, it should not be valid to your personal. EVERYONE should try to write a framework (or frameworks) only for it/her self, but NEVER try to sell it to other people. Rolling a framework is a great way to grow.

And while doing that, you might peek at different technologies, to learn from the other tech communities (python, java, ruby, etc).

And of course, it's always fun to do it.