PHPBenelux Conference 2018
26 - 27 Jan 2018 at Ter Elst

Very interesting talk. Not having bothered to dive into Symfony's guts that much myself, only assuming how things work internally, it was good to hear that most of my assumptions were correct. This information definitely helps me decide how to approach certain things in Symfony.

Wouldn't want to have missed this. Sorry Wim fell ill, but replacing his talk with this one was a very good call.

Good talk about debugging without xdebug. Learned some new things.

We're currently in the process of moving to a clustered container based solution for our products, so this talk caught my eye. Especially the "what about our data?" question, since it's what we're struggling with, too. I was a bit disappointed about the "we'll just pin our MySQL service down to a specific node", which to me defies the whole purpose of working with a cluster that dynamically allocates services across nodes based on load, etc. I guess I was hoping for a silver bullet, which probably isn't out there (yet).

All in all, I think this talk was more aimed at people that haven't actually looked at clustered Docker environments yet, as opposed to people having experimented with Swarm or Kubernetes and are looking for answers to limitations they're facing (persistent storage, networking, etc.). This might been a misplaced expectation on my side.

Interesting to the point talk with clear examples. Good speaker. Didn't bore me for a second :)

When this vulnerability appeared on our radar, it was All hands on deck for us. It was very interesting to hear about the whole process from your point of view. Thanks for sharing your story!

An ease introduction to PHP Code Sniffer. The talk was very accessible, though it felt like a missed chance that no examples of modern IDE integrations were given. (and the garden picture metaphors weren't really necessary :)

Nice introduction to Go. Definitely will give it a go! (ba-dum tsss) A few more pointers on when to use it might have been a good addition.

I've only used the Symfony container when it comes to DI so far, so can't compare it to other DI implementations, but I'd definitely give this a go when starting a non-Symfony project. Thanks for the talk.

There were some things I liked and some things I didn't like about this interactive talk.
First, it's good that mental condition is discussed. The caricature of a programmer tells that 'we' aren't the healthiest people in terms of food and workout, so it's good to focus a bit on that.
But on the other hand, I felt like I was in one of those typically American encouraging health programs. Various data was collected from unmentioned sources, and while it made sense, I'm not fond of this type of primary school lecture (I expected the food pyramid at a given time), and certainly not when repetitively being asked to stand up just for the sake of standing up.