PHPBenelux Conference 2017
27 - 28 Jan 2017 at Hotel Ter Elst

Very good! Already knew a bit of Python for scripting but definitely got a better grasp of the language after this talk. The highlights on the differences with PHP were very interesting (permission vs. forgiveness, everything is an object, etc.) and it was nice to discover how Python does OO. Only thing I would have loved to see is what real-life Python web app code looks like (especially with a framework: some excerpts from a Django project for instance). The live coding was a great idea and the speaker's delivery & energy were excellent.

Brilliant keynote. Despite his impressive achievements, the speaker was very humble (so that it was only at the end that I realized how impressive his resume was!). Really the kind of talk that stays with you for a while, and changes your view about the open-source world in that it suddenly makes it seem completely approachable. Super inspiring. The bit about mental health was very touching and heartfelt. Delivery was perfect. Thanks so much!

@Renaud Drousies very good points. Thanks for your feedback. We are actually transporting the Trace-Id to all internal services, include it in all logs and of course have these ids then also available in Elasticsearch to search it over all logs from all services there. I thought I also mentioned that during the talk, but I'll try to make it clearer in the future.
We are actually also including the trace id as comments in db queries like you do. I'll add this to the talk in the future.

Very good talk, wasn't that much of a beginner talk (it actually dug deeper than the morning workshop about security, IMO), but was just what I needed. Very good explanation of the main concepts, and good explanation of details as well (the timing attack!). Learned quite some new stuff and solidified my grasp on the concepts I was already familiar with. Thanks!!

The talk had potential but didn't quite manage to live up to it. The Indiana Jones theme was fun and the speaker put a lot of effort into it, but the very monotonous delivery made it hard to remain engaged. This is for me the #1 point of improvement, because a livelier voice & speech would make a huge difference! Content-wise, the main problem for me was that the Indiana Jones metaphor was so intertwined with the content that it sometimes made it hard to understand what the speaker was actually talking about. The content was OK but the examples were too far removed from real-life code.

Nice overview of security, I liked the live demos. I would hardly call it a workshop though, since was no interactivity at all—it might have been good to let us know this in advance in the description. One big issue for me was that the content seemed seemed a little outdated: pre-PHP5.4 array syntax in code examples, no mention of Synfony/Laravel/Zend frameworks... A more telling example: the part about password storing recommendations didn't mention salting at all (!!!), nor recent algorithms like bcrypt (instead recommending SHA512 over MD5, which is the bare minimum...). Seems like a lot of the content was good for basic knowledge but not really relevant to post-2010 applications that use frameworks and NoSQL.

You cannot make any comparision showing that go is faster than php 5.5 (which is not maintained anymore). It's shame that goolge isn't treat PHP seriusly. For me it's too mutch of promo of unusable product.

Amazing talk! Years of experience in less than hour. It should be recorded - I could use it as a reference when debugging.
@Derick Rethans please at least mak a blog post with all the commands that you've showed to us.

Very good again. Laser game was a bit too "easy" but fun anyways. Food was great again too.

Very, very inspiring talk. Nearly perfect. I gave only 4 stars because your "kind of dance steps" during the talk made me a bit 'sea sick' :p