MidwestPHP Conference
2 - 3 Mar 2013 at University of Minnesota's Continuing Education and Conference Center

I greatly enjoyed Joel's talk - it really set the tone for the conference!

One of the best talks of Day 1. I knew it was going to be amazing and it lived up to my expectations 100%. The only complaint I have is that we didn't get to dig deeper into a real world example.

This session was a good supplement to the first "Database Optimization" session presented by Steve Meyers. There were some common themes between them both that reinforced what I learned earlier that morning. I wasn't expecting it to be so database-centric, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

good to start off the conference thinking about how to use the information that's going to be presented.

I didn't know exactly what to expect from this talk but it ended up being the surprise hit of the day for me. Great work Wim!!!

Very good, very informative, very impressive!!

Excellent discussion and a perfect talk to get developers excited to start implementing Mongo!

Great talk, really enjoyed it and perfect way to get the conference started!

Excellent and informative. Very good illustrations showing "how much" to accomplish in each iteration of the refactor / re-test cycle.

I attended the first session only, and Steve covered a lot of information in the time allotted. He clearly has a good awareness of the pitfalls to look out for when using MySQL, and I felt that I got a lot out of his talk. Hopefully the slides will find their way online!