ScotlandPHP 2016
29 Oct 2016 at Dynamic Earth

Excellent. Lots of notes taken, and I'll be returning to a few of those tools next time I'm tempted to fire up curl or open the router config.

Projector issues aside, this was really interesting. I remember the first time I realised I could defer work to a queue after writing synchronous web app code for so long - exciting times. This talk brought that excitement back. I'm reading Pieter Hintjens' (last) book at the moment, so the comparison between Rabbit and Zero filled in some background differences that I hadn't understood yet.

Picked up some good ideas and tools for more efficient testing. "Don't blame yourself," and, "all test suites inevitably get slow over time," is a very pragmatic approach to the problems of testing.

I think Andy has the knowledge and hard-won experience to do this talk, but nerves got in the way. Respect to him for doing it anyway. Some of the questions weren't fully addressed (e.g. why not use oAuth? Or, how are feature flags handled between client app versions?) Perhaps try to cover less content, in more detail. The talk outline lists a series of big topics, and it felt as if we didn't get into the nitty gritty of any of them. Versioning, or API architecture, or authentication, could all be interesting, and practical, talks in their own right.

Saw this talk already at PHP Dublin (and I still need to move our Magento 1.9 sites to PHP 7). Enjoyed the reminder, and a good overview of some of the gotchas of upgrading PHP 7, and some of the performance gains that can be achieved.

An interesting and entertaining keynote with some very good points. Anybody can learn from her talk.

Great talk with good examples as to when and when we should be decoupling or not. Delivery was great too.

Great talk and great delivery (even with a cough to battle through). Some really good points raised in this that will stick with me in the future.

Excellent talk for anyone working with or developing API's. Delivery was great too.

Good talk and accompanied the one by Chris Riley really well. It was a real shame about the projector resolution issues though.