php[world]
10 - 14 Nov 2014 at Sheraton Tyson's Corner

I go to Drupalcons, so obviously I've heard about Angela before. This was actually the first time I saw her speak.

Yes, this was definitely keynote material and I love the story: Drupal stepping up its game, using Symfony components, getting ready for the next level. And of course: a story of 2 communities helping out eachother.

Good stuff!

Walked in a bit too late and noticed that the Jam show had already commenced.

Gotta say: Jam is one of the best speakers I know. That alone is worth a 5-star rating.

In terms of content: I felt Jam was a bit preaching to the choir. We have all heard this story before and I believe this talk will have a higher impact at non-tech events. However: the message is good and the idealism that Jam presents is admirable.

Would love to see this talk again, but not because the message will inspire me, but because Jam is just that good.

I went to see this talk for 2 reasons:

1. Watch Larry
2. See if he can teach me something new about Silex

The Larry Garfield show was great and that was the main reason for being there. In terms of Silex knowledge: I didn't learn that much because I have already worked with Silex. But Larry did manage to show me a couple of cool tricks in terms of code organization and abstraction layers.

5 star performance, as always.

I asked Eli how much he'd paid you to give this talk, since he'd literally talked me off the ledge the previous evening.

Completely relevant for developers of any ilk.

I loved this talk, and though I did not learn anything new, I had my own suspicions confirmed. While I agree 100% with the reasons for adding the last slide about tests, I don't think enough people really got that part. Tests are very important, and probably should not be considered an anti-pattern...So your point was well received by me, but I agree with those that said it shouldn't just be dropped like that.

After attending my 3rd ever WP talk, I was pretty well ready to adopt WP as a framework for some projects...

(My only difficulty is WP's direct opposition to the PSR guidelines, which I happen to prefer.)

Excellent progression of concepts. I'm not convinced Varnish will help our project, but I have the tools to test that theory.