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

Finally a talk with technical content :) Excellent live coding, showing off the usefulness of tests in the process.

Intro is a bit long. Make code screenshots bigger, or show actual code in an editor (without doing coding) which can be enlarged. Nice energy, was one of the better speakers both this year and last year.

I love the whole concept of Spark is great, but I had already seen the Laracon US talk. To me, Taylor is THE headliner at the conference, so I was disappointed to see the same talk repeated… The state of laravel would be more interesting. Plans for the future perhaps? A glimpse into how Spark works and how you can use concepts from it in other types of applications?

Really useful. Phil was very helpful throughout. Nice way to give a smooth entry to using Pusher. The workshop is short but Phil pulls it off nicely by having lots of prepared copy/paste code sprinkled with small challenges resulting in lots of "I made it work"-happiness at the end :)

Our company paid good money to send us to a conference where the second talk was about tips on how to start up with freelancing. Not very interesting for us, but hey, there were no alternative sessions to go to. Didn't know what to expect when we went in, I would recommend the organizer put some descriptions in the programme. Good delivery by the speaker, but the Elasticsearch topic from last year was a lot more interesting.

A lot of stuff that was not new to us non-newbies. Would have been better with a 30 minute in-depth exploration of Forge/Envoyer for instance, and how to set up a good deployment workflow in practice. Speaker was very monotone, needs to work on his presentation skills. Sorry :-/

Great talk, presenter shows lots of theoretical insight. Examples could be better prepared I think, so you don't have to try to come up with an example every time. Only example that seemed to be pre-prepared was the class schedule one. Speaker is honest about not knowing Laravel. Still, I am at a Laravel conference and some pointers as to how I can put this into good use in my Laravel app would have been nice. Or perhaps practical examples from Symfony? Inviting more attendee interaction, like with the schedule, would be nice.

Great start on Laracon, and a really good talker.

Truly great. A fantastic note to end on.