Laracon EU 2014
28 - 30 Aug 2014 at Bimhuis

It's Taylor, on stage! Nuff said. ;-)

No seriously; the Q&A started off a bit slow but once the conversation got going it became interesting and gave us some great insights in the framework and Taylor's motives and reasoning.

A very interesting talk that shows the power of Laravel as a spider in a API driven web of services.

The biggest surprise of the Community Day. What a touching and emotional talk that really makes you ponder. Loved the statistics and the references to all the research done on this subject.

I was surprised to read that this was your first talk in English, you did an awesome job at it!

A very in depth talk in which I learned a lot of cool little tricks on packages, service providers, views and much much more.

I really liked your pace and style of presenting. Hope to see you again at the next Laracon!

Completely agree with Jochem Fuchs.

Hope to see you speak again! With great practice comes great performance :-)

I was very interested in this talk because I was curious about the benefits of Doctrine v.s. Eloquent.

However I didn't feel like this was touched sufficiently enough that I left the talk with a good sense of; this is Doctrine and it's better to use it in x way for my project.

I agree with the other commentators on the pace and legibility of the shown code. A bigger font size with better contrast would have been better.

A well laid out talk with good real world examples and with a lot of great tips for that pesky slow MySQL query and general do's and don'ts.

We learned quite a bit of tips that we can apply right away in any (Laravel or older codebase) project.

Oh my, where to begin:

Presentation: A+
Perspective: A+
Talk Flow/Dynamics: A+

Getting a room filled with over 200 developers to be dead quit is not just impressive, it's extremely hard. This talk makes me wonder what a presentation on #hackthestigma would look like given by you, I'd very much would like to see that. We've talking long and loud, before and after your talk and I'd still would want to go out tonight for beers and more talks about it. It's inspiring and impressive. People argue about it like there's no tomorrow. I'm once more fuelled enough to not feel down when I see somebody the clearly doesn't agree with my points. Instead I can see it as an opportunity for change. Thank you.

Awesome talk, I was fortunate enough to have many inspiring conversations with Gabi during the conference leading up to this talk. Speaking in front of such a big crowds is super scary thing. I've experienced this first-hand and could totally relate to her. Inspiring developer with a great and open mind. I hope I can see her talk about other topics in the future. Great topic, nice balance between factual (stats) and social aspects. I think many people had a "aha" moment about the title too, very clever.

For Gabi:
Because English is not your first language it's language, as is the case for me, doing multiple run throughs is super helpful. I didn't do that before going into last years talk and it showed. I did it this year, felt SUPER stupid but I think it helped me a lot. Great advice by Ross Tuck btw. Although you could clearly see that you had nerves, you kept at it, kept going and even during the talk you could see improvement on that part. I'm super excited about seeing you take this experience and improving of it.

Very good presentation about Flysystem, something immediately useful and The Right Way To Do Things!