ConFoo 2011
7 - 12 Mar 2011 at Hilton Montreal Bonaventure

Best version of the Xdebug talk I've seen so far, nice mix of topics and different ways of presenting the tool (demos etc.)

I loved the in depth way Fabien dealt with HTTP caching. Although I wanted a bit more ESI/reverse proxy content. I also expected to see the Symfony 2 implementation in action.

Anyway ... good talk, I will try reading the HTTP spec at a certain point in time.

Great session

Short presentation but excellent content. I will definitely take a look at LEAN SU.

Clearly expressed, grounded in practical experience, and dryly humorous. I particularly enjoyed seeing the 4 actors depicting subject / observer relationships.

Interesting shift in how you think about web applications.

Good presentation. I've been using XDebug for a while, but haven't really gone beyond the basic config and the pretty errors it displays. Looking forward to playing with tracing and profiling.

Well presented. I would have like to have seen more details on how the dic actually worked (code), but I guess thats what the URL is for.

Comment stating - "he said that design patterns are not resusable code/solutions" missed the point. The point is, you can't just code a design pattern once and then apply it to all your code now and forever. It needs to be adapted to the solution.

There is only so much you can cover in an hour, and for me, he wet my appetite enough to get me thinking and encourage me to learn more.

Did not like the presentation at all. Speaker did not get many points across clearly, quite some serious factual errors (e.g. domain objects should NEVER know about their data mapper).

Don't understand all the good ratings. The speaker contradicted himself multiple times. Just one example: in the beginning he said that design patterns are not resusable code/solutions. When it came to dependency injection he only talked about dependency injection containers (which are not required for dependency injection, btw) and did so by only demonstrating how Arbit's dependency injection container can be used. Without explaining how it actually works. Really disappointing for a presentation that claims to be "advanced".