SunshinePHP 2017
2 - 4 Feb 2017 at Embassy Suites Miami International

I have been working in MySQL for years, and have picked up through experience on how to optimize many queries, but it has always be an instinctual process for me. I knew about the EXPLAIN command, but have never really used it. This talk was very focused and broke down exactly how to interpret the EXPLAIN output and some things to do with it. I will definitely be using this tool often in the future.

Great overview of design concepts and how to apply them for the web. It was engaging and well paced.

This talk was very informative to me. A good engineer is only made better when he/she understands the underpinned and inner workings of the languages and technologies they are working in. For example, I never know that every IO, not just some, in PHP are streams. I also did not know you could write and hook stream filters and such into streams with ease. I suspect, as Ms. Smith stated, that most PHP developers probably don't consider these mechanisms, largely because they don't know about them. Thank you for the very informative talk.

I came in late to this keynote address, but I did catch most of it. I feel that it is very important for developers and engineers to understand how their code CAN (negatively) impact people, company survival, and even the economy when security isn't taken seriously. Ms. Quiñones helped illustrate this issue. Many programmers may never be in a position to cause that kind of damage, but they need to be very aware when they are.

Thank you for this insightful talk!

I cut my teeth as a programmer on C and C++, and am very familiar with step-wise debugging. That being said, I am *not* used to having the same tools (or using them effectively) for scripting languages like PHP. I currently use Notepad++ for my primary PHP editor. Though Notepad++ has good syntax coloring for PHP, I never really considered it an IDE. I was surprised to learn (from this talk) that Xdebug can be hooked into Notepad++. Now that I know this, I am going to investigate this avenue, in additional to considering switching to PHPStorm. In this regards, this talk was helpful for me. Thanks!

This presentation got really real with regard to mental health and workaholism. I thought that was great. I appreciated the blunt approach!

I really enjoyed this talk! Alternate timelines can be a tricky subject, but I totally agreed with the inferences Ben made.

I think the pace of presenting the charts was a little too slow - it quickly became obvious to me that Python was the "PHP alternative", but it took a few more minutes for the presentation to get there. Tightening this section up would really help with the flow.

Very well balanced talk of general information and concrete examples.

I'm not sure about how much this technique actually makes sense. Many people will not want to go to their email every single time they want to login to a particular resource. In fact, most people I know will be annoyed.

In any case, it was still worth learning how this mechanism works, and is worth thinking about as an option.

Really great talk, one of the best of the conference