php[tek] 2016
23 - 27 May 2016 at Sheraton Westport Chalet

Talk was a bit awkward. It was two engineers who didn't really explain who they were or what they did at Yahoo and probably hadn't given a talk before. But, agree with other commenters, it was interesting to here about what such a big PHP shop was doing to release code without any downtime.

Helped me think more about how to promote morale in a dev team and lift up those around me. Going to apply some stuff this talk made me consider. A little low energy, though, but enjoyable. I liked the use of other's twitter posts.

This turned into a very academic talk about why PHP 7 really can't be classified as production ready yet. Having been really excited about the PHP 7 release, it was a little disappointing to hear that companies like Yahoo aren't moving very fast to adopt it.

Basically just a sales pitch for backbone but could have been less biased and giving examples of when one framework would be better than the other.

Giving this a worth hearing but not much out of it because it was so short. It might have been better to focus on one technology.

Liked this talk a lot. It focused on a single library that can be used in php to achieve machine learning. It could have been a lot higher level but I don't think that would have been as useful. Machine learning is a huge subject and hard to really scratch the surface with in an hour.

It was just a list of people he knew. It would have been better if he had gone more into what they contribute and how to get a hold of them. Also, maybe he could have gotten quotes from them for the conference.

I have yet to actually build an extension for PHP, so I attended the talk as a user of extensions frustrated with the slow rate at which they're being ported to PHP7. Rather than just whine, I wanted to be able to dig in and help :-)

This was a great primer and definitely laid a foundation I can use to help pull things together.

While I wish there were actual code examples of monads in production, the explanation of what they are, how to use them, and at least listing some projects implementing them in production was super helpful. I've used monad-like structures in other languages, so applying the technique to PHP was definitely helpful.

Having only ever used (and struggled with) XDebug, this was an eye-opening introduction to an alternative debugging tool. The walkthroughs for both console _and_ web applications were a huge plus!