True North PHP 2014
6 - 8 Nov 2014 at Microsoft HQ

Great explanation, very clear and interesting.

the talk focused primarily on release etiquette (tagging and versioning), and didn't cover the breadth I was expecting. I'm sure there are many other "Composer Best Practices" that could have been covered.

The Q&A session after the talk was better, as it's rewarding to hear reactions from Jordi about these projects he's so intimately involved with which we've all embraced.

Thanks Jordi, now I finally understand the ~ version thing. It was also great to learn about the @dev override. Thanks for the great talk and all your work on Composer and other open source goodies. I really appreciate everything.

I'm a strong believer in removing as much friction as possible in terms of running tests and coding standards tools. This talk provided huge amounts of information on how to achieve this. Eric does a great job of presenting the tools that he's using on a daily basis.

Didn't have a ton of information dealing with the difficult problems of where you can use SoA, and where to avoid it due to the challenges. SoA is super-hard to do right, and while this was big on ideas, it could have led someone down the wrong path.

Maybe retitle the talk to "Pimping legacy PHP applications with Apigility".

I like the recommendations that Jonathan had for people wanting to publish their own packages. I think the strong recommendation to use PSR-2 without backing reasons was a bit rocky.

I think his suggestions and ideas around marketing and building documentation sites were fantastic, and the key things that can take a library from being totally ignored to well adopted.

Well done.

Morgan is super knowledgeable about MySQL and is very personable. I think he covered the upcoming 5.7 release really well.