PHPBenelux Conference 2016
29 - 30 Jan 2016 at Ter Elst

Even as a non-vegetarian, I strongly preferred the sandwiches over the fries. They were _so_ good!
Maybe next year have both veggie and non-veggie (e.g. pulled pork or ham) sandwiches for everyone?

The idea of behind the talk is a good one. Helping programmers, lead developers or programmer managers to get a bit more insight in becoming a better (mediocre) programmer.

The presentation itself could have used a fair bit of structure. For example, if you name your talk '7 steps to become a mediocre programmer', the least I would expect is a breakdown in 7 clear steps. Unfortunately, I was unable to recognize more than 4 steps.
Also, a bit more background information on the pomodoro-system would have been useful, as not everyone has prior knowledge about it.

Pim speaks in fairly easy to understand English, making it easy to listen to him. A couple of slides with some visual support (e.g. images, bullet points) could really help structuring the presentation to make it a stunning success.

I felt that the level was pretty steep right out the gates, BUT the information presented was highly interesting and I can see how Enrico's approach to these encryption and authentication challenges could help out.

Thank you for this information!

Definitely got me interested to make a small experimental project to toy around with this information, despite the end conclusion being in the direction of "Just use zend-crypt. Don't bother doing this yourself".

Really cool talk about 'thinking' in different ways. Lateral thinking vs linear thinking. Really made me think about my own 'thinking'.

Funny talk about an interesting subject! Great job!

Obviously presented from expertise, this talk by Anna really addressed issues that everyone in the room seemed to relate to. Either by refactoring own code, or by taking over projects from others. At times a bit fast, but at no point too fast or annoying for me.

Would definitely invite Anna to speak at our local meetup.

Basically "The state of PHPUnit", very nice to hear the current status and future plans.

Read / saw this talk online already, but it was still good to see this talk in person, especially in combination with questions coming from the audience that give you a better understanding as to why it might be hard for some developers to follow the guidelines presented by Rafael.

Good balance between humor and seriousness.


Definitely in my top 5 of talks that I attended. Also +1 for LEGO.

Very in-depth talk about PHP Data Structures. Interesting to hear about benchmarks of said data structures.

If security is what you need? Then this is the best session, to get a good inside about what security is and how you should use it to store and transfer your data secure!