Laracon EU 2015
24 - 26 Aug 2015 at The Royal Tropical Institute

While I'm usually not interested in frontend stuff myself, I did find it interesting to look at it from a backend point of view. Frank gave an engaging talk, enticing people to discover React.JS although it may have become a little too dense at some point, probably losing a few people along the way. It also seemed like the argument against Angular, Backbone, etc, of those being too complex got a bit thin considering the React stuff was surely on the same level of complexity.

Cool talk title, too!

While not exactly the kind of talk that I expected to see at Laracon, Ben does provide some good guidance for people freelancing. Having been a freelancer myself, I didn't really hear anything new but it did reaffirm a few valid points. Ben's delivery was also engaging and funny at times, which is always a plus. My only criticism is that for me personally the talk title promised a subject far more engaging that it actually ended up being.

Although Dries seemed quite nervous throughout, I think his talk has value in terms of Laracon being inclusive of people who are not necessarily tuned into the Laravel ecosystem. Dismissing his talk as just being about stuff that everyone there already knows effectively makes the community closed and exclusive - not the way to go, I believe.

Towards the end, highlighting contributions of a few people that usually get none of the spotlight was a nice touch. I'd only encourage Dries to relax and become a bit more dynamic in his presentation. :-)

Great talk, touched on a subject many ignore and helped keep the audience engaged with a great use of humor and props.

A very interesting keynote on an especially important matter. It's really nice that this acted as an introduction to this year's Laracon. Obviously, you're not going to become empathic just by listening to Matt's talk or even just by attempting to, but it's a great first step. I do feel a lot of our field is marred by people just blindingly waging whatever holy war and/or not being able to tame their egos.

Matt: was that the "#1 Best-Seller" on amazon for portable horns? Sounded like it isn't. ;-)

Important subject not often talked about on conferences, really well put, with a couple of really emotional moments.

Great talk and live demo! All examples very clear.

Great example on how a live coding session is done. Was really nice to see a more practical talk after the earlier talks.

Great talk, caught my attention. It has some good points every developer/human can use.