SunshinePHP 2015
5 - 7 Feb 2015 at Embassy Suites Miami International

Massive overview of everything relating to security. Very informative and fascinating. Really enjoyed it.

Excellent overview of security essentials.

Very good talk

Samantha was very knowledgeable about Varnish. Tons and tons of information in this workshop. It wasn't hands on however, as Varnish may preclude that.

Good presentation, lots of really good information. I feel much better about git today than I did before this tutorial.

This was a good introduction to the basics of Heroku. For me, the biggest value was in seeing the little bits that Heroku suggests for apps, such as declaring service dependencies like PHP and web server versions in composer.json, and in the build and release process.

I found myself waiting quite a bit as others went through debugging Wifi or environment issues, so there was only an hour and a half or so of useful content.

A few suggestions for future talks:

* Some sort of local cache for packagist would have helped for wifi issues. Or better yet, a git repo with branches for each step of the session. That way, attendees don't have to madly write down code from slides.

* I don't think setting up locals was a good use of time. It would have been better to just do everything live on Heroku. Or, provide pre-configured virtual machines so everyone is on the same setup.

* More of a focus on how to architect your app to work well with Heroku would be great. What are the common pitfalls in moving your app to Heroku? If you have an existing Drupal/Wordpress/Symfony app, what do you need to do to run it well? What types of apps will run poorly on Heroku?

* A section I felt was missing was scaling performance for IO, especially database traffic. It would have been great to learn about how to structure IO in your app and in the Heroku configuration to handle large amounts of authenticated traffic with database writes.

Great talk and speaker.

Very good tutorial, lot of content well explained and very useful things to work with git

Excellent talk. A little fast at the end due to time running short, but I really learned a lot. Lorna's speaking style is excellent.

Lorna Jane is an amazing presenter! She's fun and funny and explains complex concepts in really simple, easy to understand terms! I came to better understand the git commands I was already using and got to learn new tricks as well!