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

I like the topic very much and I am eager to try it on some project in the future, but the talk felt stretched and a shorter version had probably been better.

Also expected more about technical code documentation. The speaker was obviously nervous but not to the point where it became a problem. The speed of the content was too fast. The sheets, I think, were ok, but some sheets came and went without all the contents being handled. If you have sheets with bulleted lists make sure you mention and explain them.

Not that unpleasant to attend to, but I felt like a missed 80% of what you wanted to tell me.

I came away disappointed from this talk.

First, Sebastian kicked off by telling us he had prepared a talk for 60 minutes so he would have to rush things. The rest of the talk indeed had a very rushed feeling to it, and it was very clear he was just reading from his laptop screen. In terms of contents the talk felt more like a summary that you could've grabbed off wikipedia easily than a well-designed narrative.

There was no time left for questions or comments, which is a missed opportunity since this is such a grateful subject. By just focusing on a few topics and interacting with the audience the talk would have been much more engaging. I interrupted at some point to point out the principle behind rubber duckie debugging but Sebastian did not pick up on this.

All in all I think that an experienced speaker like Sebastian could have done much better with this material.

Lots of cool tips optimiZending my application ;)

nice content but the demos were poorly prepared. You shouldn't update all the software on your laptop including the software you want to demo right before the conference. For a demo it's important to test everything, make everything work, and after that: change nothing. Demos are a critical part of a talk can easily go wrong and it's a high risk to bring one into your talk. If you make the decision to do so, you should treat it more carefully.

A lot of useful content came across, and as a user of xDebug I want to thank you for giving us a wonderful tool like that. You have lots of interesting stuff to tell us and you know how to, but because of the not working demos and apologies for it I only can give you 3 out of 5.

The idea - there really only was one idea in the talk - was completely new to me. It was clear after 15 minutes into the talk, where the slide came of the API between the database and the MVC and it was very very clear. You can support that with examples, but really, after 5 more minutes everybody got the message and it should have stopped there. We're an intelligent audience so don't repeat yourself 20 times. It's a new idea, but it's not that complex.

The skills to give a decent talk are clearly present. Pronunciation, intonation and pace are all pleasant to listen to. The way you stood and moved around on stage however were not that pleasant, you need to work on that. The message was a nice one to deliver, but it was repeated to much. Even in the conclusion you still felt the need to give an example and the example was twitter, again, which already was mentioned I don't know how many times.

Skills are there, message was ok, but I have to give you the worst rating because it was the most boring talk of the conference because of the repetition. I had a hard time staying awake and I didn't even attended the social.

Inspiring keynote, great way to close off a great conference

I liked way of talking and whole concept, very good keynote.

Excellent talk, the best I've seen at the day 2. Very good and easy to understand explanation of how Hadoop works and also great live demo. Charisma, way of speaking and presenting on the highest level.

The only remark is that the speaker should understand that it is not talking to a native English crowd and some expressions where not understood by the audience.

apart from that it was a very good presentation