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

What I really liked about the talk was how clear the presentation was and quite humorous in between the lines. In terms of improvement for at least this conference, I would suggest going a bit faster through the stuff in the beginning or specifically aim for beginners. The core of the talk should be more about the RPC and REST services then currently.

Already having done quite some stuff with webservices, I managed to learn some new things still, especially the HTTP headers and statuscodes were nice as well as the remarks on documentation. What I also like is that in the talk Lorna found a good balance between telling how things should be done according to the book, but also took on a hands-on approach, clearly stating where deviation from those rules might be a good idea.

Interesting topic for a developer conference! It was well presented and there were some technical difficulties which Mike handled very professionally.
The talk contains a nice basic set of tips.

Since there was time left, put in some more tips and tricks perhaps together with some more examples.

Talk pace was quiet slow, which makes it easy to follow, but easy to lose attention as well. Luckily it had a kitten right in the middle! Well done Mike!

Good presentation with interesting content. Nice introduction to XHProf. Well presented.

Great talk, deserved a double timeslot for all the content - we could've had more examples then, too! Really liked the breaking down of existing examples (Twitter API, the filmlovers xml) and point you in a general direction that makes you think 'how does this rest thing work for developers, anyways?'

Going to enjoy reading back the slides, thanks again!

Presentation style was a bit 'busy', I'd say, but did keep attention on a pretty abstract concept.Best use of examples of all lectures this day, although the DI-related part was kinda rushed, making it unclear and unneeded.

Maybe it's a good idea to find some other examples of what could be done with the principles, as the implementation with fb/twitter was a bit on the easy side.

Very complete, and I guess that's why everyone was lacking examples: too much theory to handle. I wasn't upset about that, but I've followed another two lectures on API's the same day. I can imagine that if all the API-info you're getting is from this course, you do miss practical examples and implementations.

Lots of useful reminders, new info to think over and a good presentation, although the slides are on the stale side.

Kinda went here because the other two courses didn't seem that interesting, but I wasn't disappointed. I don't see any form of testing like this happening soon in my company, but the principles as used by Frisby.js are applicable to any set of testing instructions, I think.

Can't complain about being in over my head as it was an expert level talk, so I won't go there, but I do think it would be a good idea to have your examples a bit more ordered - it was a bit chaotic and for some reason people cannot type AT ALL when people are watching. You did a fairly good job, but still :)

I had a bit of trouble with the whole concept - where was I standing developer? Then it kinda hit me, we're in the damn middle trying to provice servers, write clients, and make sense of it all.

Having developed oAuth 1 clients before, I'm really happy to know the differences between 1 and 2 and how it's not another painstaking trip down horrorville to adapt to the new version.

I'm not sure how you could improve on this - sorry!

Also, I love the accent. Every presentation gets better when British women have a reason to say things like 'horrible' or 'awesome'.

The presentation was good, a few topics could have slimmed down a bit, it was a bit too long.

6/5. Catches you, informs you, applies to everyone who solves problems for a living and has a bunch of practical examples and resource links to get you on the right track.