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

This presentation was put together well and was pretty much what I was expecting coming into it. It was a little overwhelming at times, however. I am one of 2 developers in my company and taking the approach of diagramming out all the different possible vulnerabilities and trying to fix all those is a little daunting. It was helpful when he started going through the different vulnerabilities and saying what can be done to mitigate the problem. It might be better for the little guy if the presentation was focused a little more on the steps to mitigate and less on the diagramming especially since at a PHP conference the vast majority of the developers are going to have very similar diagrams.

This presentation had a lot of potential and I do think it was presented pretty well. I think the main thing that I wasn't crazy about is that Gemma spent so much time talking about the structure of a journal study and why people do research on software engineering that by the time she actually got to the individual studies, she had lost me. I felt like I was back in my 300 level english class again(not my favorite subject). I think I was just hoping for more of the "empirical evidence you need to defend “cutting edge” practices".

This is the second time that I have seen this presentation and I took away even more then I did the first time. Refactoring is a constant struggle in our system as much of the code is very old and needs refactoring very badly. Adam does a great job at mapping out a process that can be used to give better structure to the code and make it easier to maintain.

Excellent talk!! It was obvious that Davey knew the subject matter very well and he presented it in a way that was very useful in preparing for PHP 7. He did a great job in presenting a lot of subject matter in a very short amount of time.

This was a great presentation if you are looking for a very broad surface level list of different tools and standards that have become available over the last couple of years. It has definitely encouraged me to look deeper into many of the tools that he brought up. I did think, however, that the presentation lacked very much depth. The code examples that were supposed to bring "in depth, real world examples" seemed very basic and didn't really seem to be from any kind of real world example. The description also says, "Learn how to structure and maintain a modern day PHP project using the latest standards." I didn't really feel like much of a structure was introduced.

Davey was well prepared and the presentation went really well. He even pulled off a live demo.

Excellent information. Lots and lots of it, so spoke maybe a little to fast for a beginner session. Maybe condense parts that are covered well in the official Symfony documentation to slow the pace? Wish the organizers had switch the talk order so the Doctrine one was -after- this beginner one, but that's not a criticism of the speaker. I found this session to be very helpful. Real world code examples are always great to see at conferences.

Excellent topic and strong speaker. Sharing his personal stories was brave. Could have been paced to allow more than the last 5 minutes for the sections on recommendations, and reasons to implement them.

I was really impressed by the methodology used when engineering web scale analytics and real time monitoring. This talk gave me a lot of food for thought.

Great coverage of the state of modern PHP development.
Enjoying the podcasts and links to the community resources.
Reminds me I should lurk in irc more often.