php[world] 2016
14 - 18 Nov 2016 at Sheraton Tyson's Corner

An excellent, well paced talk about the benefits on contributing to open source. Hopefully this will have nudged some people to start contributing. Imho every developer should hear the message Michelangelo was bringing.

This talk included a good amount of impressive demo's to demonstrated the power of IoT. The speaker could explain how everything worked behind the scenes in a clear way and was clearly very enthusiastic about the subject. Well done!

At the beginning, Michael asked the room how many people were – or have in the past – coded on the server. FTP? Deployment tools? The room laughed as many of us have moved through these phases of deployment management, and Michael brought great insight as to what our goals for deployment should be, regardless of the method we use.

While the talk may not have introduced any groundbreaking concepts, it was still a great call-to-arms for businesses looking to leverage open-source software in their business.

It took a good 15-20min to really start explaining what modes really were, but the payoff from the prolonged setup was well worth it; great, practical examples of patterns we can use to remove modes from our user experiences.

Since David's talk, I've been spending all day thinking about the great things I could build using services Twillio and Nexmo. While his talk ran into some technical difficulties, it was definitely one of those "holy crap, I never considered doing that!" experiences.

Did a good ob of covering the basics to more advanced stuff. Practical info

I'm a big fan of the Hackers book and the general hacker ethos, so it was a fun look back at how we got to where we are.

Great overview of the new stuff in Zend Framework 3 and some things that are coming down the pike. Even though I use Zend Framework quite a bit, I still learned something new.