Dutch PHP Conference 2012
6 - 9 Jun 2012 at Amsterdam RAI

I really got interested in puppet and definately am going to see if I can use it in some way. When the situation at the company I work for was described almost spot on at the beginning of the talk it really got my attention. I missed some practical issues about dealing with hosting companies and tools they use for maintaining their servers, even when they are dedicated. So telling people there really is no reason to not use something like puppet is simply not true.
The slide about the advantage of just having to say: "we need a webserver" instead of "apt-get install..." or any other variant is bogus. This advantage didn't seem to be one because later on it showed you still need the package name and a distinction between different types of OS. The adavantage really is to centrally manage multiple servers and being able to version it. These advantages could have been on this slide.
Excellent speaking style.

Great talk, great pase with the right amount of humor mixed in

I really enjoyed the talk as it did what I expect from a keynote: Give me insights into a topic I didn't have on my radar before.

The talk made the my world "a lot bigger" as it expanded the horizon. I'd love to get a set of slides that included sources for all the numbers thrown around just to be able to explore then more.

The presentation style was good, engaging and entertaining but the talk felt unpracticed and the pauses between the slides where to long, which I'd attribute to the missing remote presenter - Every slide transition was a pause, followed by a "click", some more seconds of silence and then another couple of words. It didn't feel like the slides where accompanying the presentation but reminder the speaker of the contents.

Thats of course just my perception and it might have been a deliberate choice but it surely didn't feel like that :)

After a while when he showed the examples i thought "oh my the nesting" but luckily he expeted that and offered some solutions for that. Overall an intresting talk

Good talk with many good examples the speed was just right i saw many intresting new libraries

Very nice to see what the developers of php have to deal with and to see a point of view from that side.
The very start looked like a bit of a mid life crisis or something. Understandable and it's ok to let people ask themselves how their work matters but not really useful or motivating to let everybody know you really seem to be having second thoughts.

The talk was good but as mentioned before the scrolling was not realy helpfull maybe just place the code snippet in the slides next time as the lines where the actual spl was used where not that many.

And i read in previous comment that the converence badge was causing interference but i actually think it wasnthe ratteling of the earrings.

Wakeup call. API's, mobile and shallow front-ends are really going to be a big part of the future, i disagree with the apocalyptical tone that everything will be mobile, but its impossible to ignore that those skill will make a difference for sure.

I would have like the talk to flow a little better, some slides really flowed into each other, but some were like post-its in the way which you stopped and read.

Good inspiration but too many numbers.

Natural speaker, but though the walking around worked, it was a bit too much. The theoretical part was very interesting though maybe a bit too fast. The practical part was not very structured. Maybe it's a good idea to not completely split the theoretical and practical parts but show some practices after a pattern.

Great talk, if you had ever any doubt about the need for coding standards you wont have them anymore after this talk.