php[world] 2015
16 - 20 Nov 2015 at Sheraton Premiere

Entertaining session, good speaker.
The topics were basic and most of them are cared for the modern frameworks.

This was a good talk backgrounded by sound advice and valid, helpful explanation and reminders of the right way to do things. I think there was a typo in this or his other talk in one of the quotes where it said siting when he meant sitting. I do feel he could have enhanced his talk by surveying the field of what others (books, presenters, blogs) recommend for a debugging approach, contrasting that with his suggestions, and maybe in the process taking out some of the details of how he came to his approach. It would be nice if the talk were more a holistic survey of the field of thinking about debugging than solely the author's thoughts, is what I guess I am saying.

This was a really good talk. I was intimidated by the description a little bit, thinking some of it might be over my head, but everything was clearly explained with concrete examples and a confirmation that the audience knew what was meant by a certain term before it was used in a larger discussion. The only thing I can think of that wasn't, is the phrase "magic methods" wasn't explained as to what it referred to in advance or was cursorily explained if it was. Other than that, I'd highly recommend this talk be repeated at future conferences. Super useful and helpful. Organization and content of slides could better document the talk itself, but not by much. That's a tiny, tiny critique -- effusively positive feeling towards this talk in general.

Thanks for the feedback everyone :) PDF of the slides are at www.matt-toigo.com/files/phpworld_2015_presentation.pdf

Would be great if your quickly showed setting up xdebug in PHPStorm really quickly in your slides.