Ski PHP Conference 2014
17 - 18 Jan 2014 at Salt Lake Community College

A good overview of a lot of the different types of security. I got a bit lost in the soup of different technologies and approaches, but found the security myths to be practical and useful.

A good overview of usability. I liked the focus on why it was important, the different aspects to consider, and I really enjoyed discussing the usability lessons using actual websites.

Presentation was interesting and good introduction to Laravel to someone who had never heard anything about it. It didn't really excite me into wanting to try it.

I didn't feel like the presenter made a good case for why we should use traits. His examples seemed messy and convoluted. I was hoping for a more practical examples and use cases for traits.

Practical advice on why and how to apply dependency injection to a legacy codebase. I'm not completely sold on the benefits, but because of this talk I'll be able to try it out on one of our smaller applications and see if it helps.

Interesting discussion of the different ORMs. I didn't really have a handle on what they were or what exactly to call what I use at work. I've been putting off actually learning Doctrine for too long.