ZendCon 2015
19 - 22 Oct 2015 at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

Great talk. Hearing about HHVM is refreshing here at ZendCon.
It's good to hear from people who are experts. Thank you Sara!

Great feedback, Bobo & Marek! Bobo, I sort of wanted to face-palm halfway thru the talk when I realized while trimming slides I removed the slide showing the PHPSpec generated code. I'll make sure to add that back. Marek - it was great talking with you after the session! I agree - positioning Behat as a browser automation tool greatly under-sells its power, and isn't the ideal way to look at Behat. I've been using this approach because it tends to 'hook' US audiences into the idea of Behat, after which we can train them on more of 'Behat The Right Way'. I think you might've missed the first few minutes where I basically tell the audience that. However, your feedback has me planning a completely redone version of this talk - updating to Behat 3 and focusing more on 'Thinking the Behat way'. Hopefully there will be some conferences in 2016 that want to see that!

It's unfortunate the talk sold Behat as a browser automation tool, because there are more valuable use cases that weren't explored in the talk. I still really enjoyed the way Joshua delivered his talk.

Very cool and informative talk about how the sausage is made in PHP and HHVM. Lexing, parsing, compiling, and then executing (with cats). Brought in real-world uses of state machines that help drive home the points made in other talks. An excellent talk to end the session portion of Zendcon. Well done.

Happy to see that all of the ZF folks think alike on the future of this ecosystem: a wider and more open ecosystem!

Thanks for stating clearly our aims, Matthew!

Very interesting, thought provoking. Gives me many ideas for my home. I would have liked to see a little more PHP.

Good examples as a general illustration of the concept, but perhaps could you also devise an example that illustrates the stateless nature of http and the req/response cycle and how to reconstitute state? Otherwise, I found myself thinking about ways I could use this pattern in my work throughout the talk and that's great.