Dutch PHP Conference 2011
19 - 21 May 2011 at Amsterdam RAI

Good talk, great content. Although too much info which made the presenter rush through the material.

I agree finding more ways to help keep the audience awake besides the hand-raising. But to me it was not a real annoyance, perhaps I am more patient ... or just as boring :).

I missed the reason as to why Singletons are bad, I think the presenter said he would explain this, but I don't believe he did... did I fall asleep?

Very interesting, I agree with Stefan there should be more attention to this.

I have a vague idea that perhaps the Behavior-driven approach works better than TDD to sell "testing" to managers and customers... It somehow sounds more real to non-technical people to show them a report that shows that the application indeed behaves the way it should.

HINT HINT: I would like to see more of this in a future conference :).

Interesting project, I had never heard of it. Honestly, I do not think it really belonged in the DPC Uncon.

I actually did like the way of presenting it. It was chaotic but very energetic and fun to listen to which made up for the chaos.

1 thumb for the contents, 4 for the presentation.

Sounded interesting, but I felt it was just a VM image available for download.
The VM can easily be implemented by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination and an IQ of 750 :).

But seriously it just sounded like a very well implemented VM image if it were more than that, then the point did not come across.

Presentation was very good.

Interesting talk, nice to see some "under the hood" information on Facebook and very well presented.
Also the level of technical details was good. 4 thumbs up!

I can imagine that implementing XHP was a LOT of work, but I could not help but just seeing a polished SMARTY templating engine.... but perhaps that is just me?

Interesting talk!
The presentation could've used some more energy.

The talk was pretty much Sales focussed, it did not belong with the great talks I heard this weekend.

Most information I heard could've probably been read in the FEATURE list on the Oracle website.

I did see a few code lines in the slides, but they seemed to be in there just to make the presentation appear technical.

Improvements: The speaker could have selected 1 or 2 great new oracle products and then show us how they can be used in the real world (code examples, some cool features and how they work). It would still be a way to promote the use of those 2 oracle products, but the technical details would keep the crowd happy.

It was an okay overview of Solr but I it could use some more in-depth information it seemed more like a business perspective of Solr. Perhaps my expectations were incorrect.

The presentation could use more energy. I heard that the speaker DOES have that energy, it just did not work out so well this time. So Paul, take not of some tips in all these comments but do not feel too bad about any negativity.

You can do it :)!

Excellent! One of the best presentations I've seen.
This had a lot to do with the humor in the presentation. If somehow, the software world doesn't work out for you, you could still do stand-up comedy.

Not a technically hot topic, but very inspiring.

Since the "Caching on the Edge" tutorial finished early, I stepped in on this tutorial at the end (last hour).

I was able to grasp some of the concepts, not all was new to me but it did give me a few new pointers in writing tests, especially when dealing with parts of the software that are external.

I had a difficult time understanding what was said due to the accent of the speaker, this in combination with the very very high speed made it almost impossible to understand any information presented.
I noticed the following: when Giorgio asked if there were any question, there were pretty much none. I do not think this was because the information was so clear, but because because most people had no clue what he was talking about and wanted to "get it over with". Perhaps not everyone shares this opinion but I have talked to a few people that attended the whole presentation and definitely agreed on it.

A possible improvement would be a slower pace for the information presented, it would give the attendees time to "translate" the spoken information and then digest the actual content of that information.

My rating below is about the content and the way of presentting the information (using slides & flip-over, enthusiasm of speaker, etc.). I did not take the above problems into consideration for the rating.