True North PHP 2016
3 - 5 Nov 2016 at Microsoft Canada

I won a Lego Storm Trooper. 5 stars.

Extremely easy to follow, well structured and informative talk, consisted mostly of live coding, which is great to illustrate the topic.

The speaker managed his time so well, that he was able to do intro to the whole TDD concept, do the live coding example, and even finish almost 20min earlier!

I broke azure! or at least z-ray on azure
nice prizes

Azure has lots of pretty guis - but I think for this kind of audience we'd rather see it all scripted or command line
Once you go beyond one VM it's too much of a pain to manage it via a UI

The ability to have "private" docker repositories and a box for doing your docker builds to shove in the repository would be GREAT

Other feature requests:
Hosted PostgreSQL (also "dev on same system" PostgreSQL like the MySQL)
gitlabs support

I'm not sure the "function" support is REALLY useful but - good luck :)

Great fun and awesome prizes!

This talk covered a lot of bases.

While it focused on (and was described as covering) basic concepts, I would have liked some more practical takeaways such as specific actions I could take to investigate and uncover necessary evidences in event of a compromise. I realize that's a little more complicated to deliver, and would be a more advanced-level talk. As someone who has spent a lot of time tweaking servers and processes for PCI compliance, and monitoring attacks on various servers, I left feeling like I wanted more.

Nevertheless, an attendee with limited devops exposure or limited time spent considering security, this talk is an excellent way to get people thinking and starting important conversations amongst team members for both developers and operations teams.

I appreciated the contemporary relevance of this talk. Bringing these ideas forward into modern-day development is both eye-opening and humbling.
I've run into enough people who have no awareness of, or respect for, these "lessons from the 60s", and I think there are a lot of relevant principles that could help us all be more efficient ... even if an organization has plenty of VC resources.

The talk was fast-paced (in a good way), thought-provoking, and insightful. Thanks Larry!

A great thorough talk on the basic essentials of Sass.

Adam's a great presenter!
This was a fast-paced talk that left us with two things: immediately usable tools to make our coding more expressive, and thought-provoking ideas to make us think more deeply about how we code and why.

Grateful for the focus on the issues that are often less-discussed. Thanks for the examples and the useful explanations. Made it easy to grok the issues and have some real immediate take-aways.

I even went and double-checked HSTS on several servers afterward!