php[tek] 2013
14 - 17 May 2013 at Sheraton Gateway Suites O’Hare

Loved the talk and the fact that you explained the internals of the changes. I was worried the talk could just be reading a feature list.

The stats and insights into the ecosystems that we developers should be aware of were awesome!

A good talk that shows/reminds developers that sometimes it is the little things. A great talk if you haven't worked on heavily optimizing things previously, otherwise you probably have seen a lot of this. It was for beginners though, so the information was perfectly appropriate.

I loved the talk and the fact that it made me reflect on my own environment and got me thinking. Look forward to trying to put some of these ideas in place.

Loved the talk! Covered a wide range of caching and scaling tips. And you made it fun and entertaining!

It was a great intro to Symfony2 to learn about what it can do and how it does it (I've only heard of it before). It seemed to lose its focus as a hands-on session towards the end when you made quick changes in the code and flipped to see the result. I didn't have a chance to test it for myself at that speed, though I did manage to follow along still. Setup during the session was a pain (Windows) as I wasn't even setup for local development. The talk might be a great intro without the hands on part given the time constraints.

Mind = blown.

Thanks for driving out for a day to share this during the uncon. It was inspiring to hear you open up about this and increase awareness on the subject, and I'm sure it will have an impact on folks long after the conference.

This keynote was a great look into the decision-making behind what is likely the most widely-deployed PHP application today. I found the stats on various PHP environments very interesting, and it clearly explained a lot of the "why" questions about Wordpress' development.

Combined with some lunch-table conversation later that afternoon, I came to understand how Wordpress is hanging in limbo between some really lousy environments in the wild and a PHP core team seeking to adopt an aggressive release cycle and leave older versions behind.

Derick covered a wide array of tools and concepts in the span of 60 minutes. The topics throughout the talk were well-structured and built upon each other.