php|tek '12
22 - 25 May 2012 at Sheraton Gateway Suites O’Hare

Great example of the different options for Mobile Development. I could tell that Mike had a passion for the subject and knew his material. He presented in a friendly and direct manner.

Presentation style was great. Time for me to take something mobile. :)

Fantastic example of Cryptography and how it works in simplistic terms. I loved the mathematical examples to show how both encryption and decryption work. I had an idea of it, but seeing it right there in front of me was really cool.

Everyone knows they need to use encryption, and most people do, without understanding what is going on behind the scenes. EXCELLENT JOB!

I can agree with anonymous about the talking to the screen sometimes.

I attended both Iterator talks and they were very similar. Not sure why Tek had two talks so closely related. Exact same material at times.

As I said in the comment on the other Iterator talk, I would appreciate more real world examples and not just examples involving arrays. They tend to leave me scratching my head with "Yeah, but where would I really use this?" and "Why would I not just use an array?"

I liked the verbal example of processing an RSS feed. How about using that as an example, instead of arrays of numbers?

Other than that, I know Jake knows the subject matter and delivers his talk in a friendly tone. Just needs to face us more. :)

While this was an amazing insight into how Facebook handles a large development team, I was expecting more of something I could take with me to manage a team currently. I would love to have a team the size of Facebook's, but fact is very very few companies will scale that big.

Many of the tools that FB uses are not available to my team now.

I did appreciate the insight into FB. And the explanation that they do code review on EVERYTHING that is released. So there were some great nuggets of information in the presentation, it was fun, and Scott's accent is fun to listen to. :)

I think it boils down to, I personally need to read the description of the talks and not just the title. My fault for setting expectations based on just the title. I am judging the book by the title. :(

I liked the example app that was written. This was definitely focused on application type sites, and not your standard website. This is currently not doable for anyone looking for SEO to get better rankings for your website. However, web apps are definitely the future, and offloading some of the processing to the browser has some great advantages.

I enjoyed learning about some of the different tools that Ed used to make his app work.

I have heard a few talks about SPL and am still looking for real world examples. The theoretical ones always seem to use arrays as an example, and that just leads me down the road of "Why not just use arrays?"

Great talk about the alternatives to mod_rewrite. The features that are available that most people use mod_rewrite for are really nice to know about. They are also easier to implement.

I liked the amount of examples in the talk. It wasn't just about theory, but practical applications.

I thoroughly enjoyed Garrison's talk. He did a good job of organizing and hiliting his example code to make it clear which parts to focus on.

After this talk I am inspired to go write better javascript and to learn more about the language.

The talk started quite well, but the pace was quite quick and I found it increasingly difficult to keep up. I found that by the end of it I was quite confused and had no idea what was going on in the code being presented. I think this was just too much info to try to cram into 1 hour.

Despite the difficult pace, Ian did give me a good idea of what types of things Clojure would be suited for. I also liked the "progressive" transformation of PHP concepts to Clojure. I'm sure if I looked over the slides a few more times it would start to make more sense to me and Ian's approach would really benefit someone coming from the PHP world to get started in Clojure.

Iterators are a bit of a mind bending subject if you're not used to them (perhaps the words iterator and recursive messes people up) but Jake did a great job of demystifying them. He gave many practical examples of how doing certain tasks can be made much easier through the use of Iterators.

I really liked Jake's slides. The code was clear and concise and he didn't use much fanciness which can sometimes be distracting.