php|tek 11
24 - 27 May 2011 at Sheraton Gateway Suites O’Hare

I enjoyed Rafael's presentation and his view point was interesting. I was curious about Windows azure and appreciate his time. I now have a pretty good idea what this solution offers along with the pro's and cons.

Lots of info to get through in 45 minutes, so kudos for that. You gave a lot of good info on tips and caveats about each security implementation. Given the time slot and the different technologies to cover, I think this is a great talk.

If you had more time, it would be cool to see PHP code wrappers for some of those security implementations, just to show how difficult or simple they could be.

Not sure how I would use it, but interesting and well presented

Decent enough presentation, but was really expecting a majority of the talk to be out schemes and approaches to securing your API. The information about securing that was presented wasn't anything that couldn't have been gotten from a quick overview from a variety of sources.

Your recommendation to not pass the API key across the wire but instead to pass a generated value from it instead still doesn't solve the original problem of someone being able to steal your credentials. Whether they have your API Key or a value generated from it, if someone has it and can send it and act as you, nothing was accomplished. If your intent was that there was a rotating private key in use, then that should be communicated.

Good overview of what is possible with Drupal for application development, along with interesting examples. I've been doing Drupal app dev for almost a week now, and feeling rather overwhelmed, and was most interested in the differences between D6 and D7, as we're using D6 for reasons not worth going into here. :)

I think maybe I was expecting something more indepth, but having watched *hours* of video tutorials, I can readily understand why this might be challenging in 50 minutes.

Thanks.

Good introduction speech, nice example of using the drupal. I was interested why developers do not like to use drupal and I got It ;-) . Thank you!

Excellent overview of the reasonable way to go about building an API.

I really enjoy the talk as I'm also involved with Windows Azure and PHP and it gives a good overview on what the pros and cons are of dealing with Windows Azure platform. I really enjoy the honest approach of Raphael and saw a few nice solutions to problems I came across.

Thanks for sharing, job well done!

During this talk, discovered that a new server I put up last month had neither APC nor mysql query caching enabled. Yikes!

Good overview of what stupid things not to do in your code, and good programming habits, as well as of what environmental things affect your PHP code more than the code itself. Impressed by Elizabeth's comprehensive knowledge.

Sometimes it was controversial but general idea is really good. I'm sure some people already implemented these ideas but the speech presented all this in good structured and somewhat historical way. Thanks