PHPNW15
2 - 4 Oct 2015 at Manchester Conference Centre

A very well presented talk. ZF3 looks like it will be awesome with some significant speed improvements!

Good talk on how do deal with large systems. It was a shame that the microphone was for the benefit of the camera as the room was extremely busy.

Fantastic energy and drive to start the conference. Meri says it like it is and gets straight to the point. I learned a lot from this talk.

this was a great talk. will defiantly be using these techniques. really easy to follow. great conversations with the audience.

I enjoyed the talk it was very informative. I did find it a little difficult to follow the code but the rest of the talk was excellent.

The speaker a hard job with the room. microphone not working a loud aircon.

I will defiantly be discussing where using this technique at work.

You have a very engaging style - somehow gentle but not patronising - I wonder if that explained the (welcome) level of audience participation.

I think I was expecting it to look more at 'look at this crazy thing ORM x does in this piece of code!!' - I was glad it wasn't. It was good to take a step back from the ORM, to look at the whole system, and to get into things like IOPS and different disk types. There was an awful lot that was applicable and useful to anyone not using an ORM.

As to immediately actionable: I think I'll start looking at some of my IOPS numbers again, with a better idea of what they mean.

I really enjoyed this talk. the speaker was passionate about the subject. gave a great history of attempts to add type hinting to PHP and an interesting insight into the process of the internal and what it takes to get new feature into PHP before you even start coding. Informative and entertaining talk.

Good talk, good delivery, good examples.

I wonder if it would be useful to talk a little more about the human side of security - e.g. awareness of social engineering, spear phishing attacks aimed at admins/developers, insider threats etc.

Good talk

As others have said, very good, very clear, examples at the right level of complexity (i.e. not so oversimplified that you end up feeling 'nice idea in theory').

I found the last bits about when to use this technique extremely helpful. Sometimes testing talks come across as 'this is the one true way, you must always do this' - which is not my experience of using different testing approaches. Making explicit the trade-offs, and drawing on experience of when it does make sense, was very helpful.

Thanks.