Ski PHP Conference 2016
14 - 15 Jan 2016 at Noah's of South Jordan, Utah

I thoroughly enjoyed Rabbi Yitz's keynote. I loved the irony and counterpoint of bouncing back and forth between leading edge PHP development and ancient Talmudic wisdom expressed in Hebrew proverbs.
Delightful.

An excellent look at the new semantic capabilities of the web. Very informative and thought provoking. David Kellerher really knows his stuff.

I'm going to using Doctrine ORM for the first time this month, and this was a perfect introduction to help me get started. I'm sure I will be referring to the slides later. Was packed with detailed info and real world examples.

Very lively presentation of highly technical topics. Hearing about internal design decisions was interesting; the most helpful bits were practical insights on how the changes will affect day to day coding work.

In a sense, this felt like two different unrelated talks, first about PHP standards and the rest about PHP community resources. But both parts were great, exactly as advertised, and relevant to a beginner audience. As the first session of the day, it was a nice way to ease into the conference.

This was a good keynote. Smart advice about being both an apprentice and a mentor, and applying lessons learned to other areas of your life. During most of the talk, he pointed the handheld microphone more in the direction of the ceiling and audience, so was difficult to hear at times.

I liked the progression from caching basics to complex systems with proxies and load balancers, and the "best practices" scattered throughout.

Good depth into caching, both technical and concepts. Good scenarios and descriptions of each topic covered.

Adam gave really good step by step instructions on how to refactor legacy code. He covered good coding practices and standards like auto-loading, dependency injection, and PSR suggestions. I've attended Adam's other refactoring talk and the focus for this talk was very different which was good. Adam's vast experience shows in this talk with helping refactor legacy code. I like the examples that were given and used to relate to the problems and situations.

I enjoy David's style of teaching. He's able to clearly articulate the concepts of the semantic web through the examples used. I thought the very first example using hexadecimal code as a way to illustrate to humans how a machine sees unstructured data was a novel way to start.