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

This talk was the exactly-correct balance for me. The relatively long intro of books and what DDD isn't, is what was of most use to me. I've read a bit of Evans and Vaughan (Old and New Testaments in the talk) and stopped. They're relatively old. Are the books a waste of time or not? So now, thanks to Andrew, I know where and how things fit together, and that YES the modern DDD approaches are worth exploring.

Always a pleasure to hear your talks, uncle Cal.

I think we're lucky Samantha does code. We'd never get to see her speak otherwise. I do know an item or two about our history of computing. I've never seen "where we come from" derived from this perspective. Delightful!

PHP Tek had quite a number of amazing, smooth, accomplished and practiced speakers. Ian is clearly a subject matter expert with an interesting message. I'll take the subject matter expert over the amazing speaker every time. I'd never heard of mutation testing as presented here. It's an interesting idea. I have a new perspective on off-by-one errors as well. This session gets five thumbs-up from me.

I really enjoyed hearing about some of the quirks of JavaScript and how it's not along in its quirkiness. I think this is the first technical talk I've heard from you, and I am keen to hear more!

I love learning about the history of computation, and this talk did not disappoint. Full of colourful stories and a vista of possibilities. You are a talented speaker and a wonderful person to know.

11/10 would hear again

Run-time performance would appear to be PHP 7's main selling point and reason for enthusiasm. That's a good thing, and this talk gave us good information. However, the TITLE of this talk is what got me thinking: Writing better code with newer versions of PHP. My production environment is PHP 5.3. It's the small unexpected takeaways that make a talk, or a whole conference, great.

Anna's perspective is one I've not seen before. She explained how to do unit testing first, long before considering moving to TDD. That makes sense. I particularly appreciate hearing from "the voice of experience" on ANY topic. I was listening "between the lines" so to speak regarding legacy code and long-term TDD. Useful.

Bearing in mind this was a short talk, I appreciated the survey/introduction to the alternatives out there.

I've run across many references to "machine learning" and I wanted to know what it's about, and whether or not it's something I/we should explore further. It is. This talk is a great introduction with a concrete example and showing that tuning is important. This was exactly the level I needed.