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

Overal good workshop but would have been better to have ll the code upfront now there where times i was not realy listening because i was trying to get the code working.

It was a good keynote. We really should focus on stuff that matter whenever we can. I love having Rasmus show us that PHP needs help and that it is open to contributions, we really need that.

I agree with him on "Don't send us money, send us engineers", money brings along too much overhead in management and does not mean more developers. If you want money to equal developers, then hire someone and send him to us. Would be a shame for core to have to stop worrying about code and start doing HR.

The message was there, it could have been a little more showman style, but it was there.

This was a great talk, every developer should realize how important coding standard is and a coding standard should really be made to avoid common errors.

Ok speaker but the subject was the complete project, not just data processing. I expected more strategies and tools (besides the message queue in a cloud) instead of tweaks. Sticking to MySQL because it's familiar is a decision I could easily make too and I came to this talk to hear other alternatives and why to choose a particular one. This probably should have been a topic of research in the project, but of course I don't know all the factors involved. To talk about decisions made that were completely unrelated to the subject was an obvious mistake. These are things an attendee probably already knows and if they don't it is covered too briefly.

Not a boring talk and kind of interesting, but while I think I didn't know a lot about dealing with big data I didn't learn a lot. I still feel I don't know enough to choose a direction when I will be dealing with big data.

I think there was a valid point down there ("don't miss the mobile boat"), but I seriously disliked the topping of that cake. I think the message got lost in the shallow interpretation of most statistics (I'd also love to see sources for some) and the lack of any nuancing across the talk.

Nice talk.

Good talk, was kinda hoping there would be a little bit more to it than the stuff I already learned from online reading, like a more practical approach to features like traits (when (not) to use), but a good repetition with easy-to-understand examples nonetheless.

Good talk, though probably too fast paced (perhaps not the speaker's fault). There was not really enough time to let the different patterns sink in, but at least I know what to Google for :)