Dutch PHP Conference 2009
12 - 13 Jun 2009 at Amsterdam, The Netherlands

I had high hopes for this talk. Jan obviously is an expert at what he does, but with the time constraints the talk didn't turn out as I expected. Perhaps a full-blown workshop would've been much better.

So what was the point of this?

I liked this talk, it allowed a good look at the architecture of a successful application. I'll definitely look at varnish!

Good keynote, not 'too heavy' first thing in the morning but provided enough of an outline to allow people to look for further information. Humorous as well :D

I really enjoyed this tutorial. Having produced two or three ZF applications now I wanted some information on best practice, suggested architecture and also how to use components individually. I wasn't disappointed!

I liked the general approach of showing NoSQL databases as an alternative to relational databases (but then, I'm biased :) In addition, the respective intros were very helpful.

Serious speaker envy here. Ben ran a great presentation plus the topic was super interesting.

A metric ton of info in this one. Even experienced memcached jockeys learned new tricks. Great to see MogileFS & Gearman being viable solutions

Great keynote, thanks Andrei!

A very good talk, informative and entertaining. The beginning of it was excellent, with great presentation style, as Ben was standing out in front of his computer, talking off the cuff, and explaining things great while showing simply 'pretty' slides, to not distract you into reading lots of content.

IE, the opposite of the "I'm going to show you bullets, and then you are going to read them" style.

The only catch came in mid-to-late parts of the talk, when Ben kept fumbling a bit, reading his notes, and therefore not flowing nearly as well