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

I'm a HTML5 enthousiast myself and did not feel the enthusiasm in this presentation. The subject is way too broad to cover all of it in one track. (Best is to focus on one element, e.g. Local Storage). It would be easier and there are lots of side effects in PHP to talk about, so it would not lack the PHP Component.
Nevertheless.. It was an great overview of HTML5, and I think he made a great point by telling that the web landscape is changing, and the role of PHP within that landscape is changing too.

Good talk focusing on the part of developing that's gets left behind more often than not. Definitely will be looking into Chef and the other tool on top of it (can't remember the name right now). Good speaker, well articulated even though the mike did not work.

I had a hard time understanding the speaker because of his accent. Also would have liked to see more about the designing concepts of DDD. Maybe an example "domain" as a guide to take the audience through the steps / process involved would have clarified the subject a bit better. I wanted to take away how I can start with my next project using DDD, did not get that.

In the beginning a bit low on examples but I guess that was partly due to the time constraints. Good overview of clean coding principles.

It was more of an overview than a tech talk with some hands on coding examples. At least that's what I had hoped for. Speaker could have slowed down a bit but overall informative.

I think that the talk delivered exactly what was promised, if not more.

As I am a Symfony dev I went to the talk to see what the 'competition' is doing. Presenter was ok, a bit monotone, but far better than some I've seen today. However, the feeling he and some (core-)devs(??) of the project in the audience left me and some others with, was one of unprofessional-ism and uncertainty. Patches being left for months, deadlines not met and a huge number of bugs in the existing version 1. All in all not a great promotion for the framework that I always held on a pedestal.

Sebastian listed 26 things (if I counted correctly) to think about in order to write clean code, fortunately with examples in PHP at some places.

It might have been better to do a shorter list but with more examples?

In the beginning of the talk he said that he had prepared a 60 minute talk, not a 45 minute talk, and that probably spoiled it for both him and us. It was rushed sometimes, and did not finish on time. He also seemed to often read directly from his notes rather than speak freely on the topic.

All in all I would have expected better from such a high-profile speaker.

I love "real world" examples. Very good talk, too bad of the 45 min constraint.

REST seems to be a sensitive subject, or...?

Anyway, I learned some interesting semantics about REST services, such as certain HTTP headers, HTTP status code and the "newer" HTTP methods.

Last but not least I don't remember this part of the talk, and it was a selling point for me:

"We'll take you through the process of building a real REST service"