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

@Bart,
You're right, it's a personal preference. vagrant just makes it easier for me to build and rebuild boxes on demand instead of manage them through the Virtualbox (or in your case, VMWare). vagrant lets me have a working debian box in 5 minutes.

Otherwise they are functionally the same. vagrant is just a wrapper for Virtuabox (and actually VMWare and ec2 soon as well) to create VMs.

I'm glad someone finally is bringing the menace that is lightning to the public's (or at least MidwestPHP's) knowledge.

10/10 A++++++ would watch again.

Enjoyed the talk quite a bit! There is a lot of good information given in the talk and I can't wait to test out the pt-digest tools mentioned in the talk.

Thanks Steve!

Talk focused on exactly what I wanted to learn about Symfony2, the http request/response component. Great job!

Excellent talk! It did require users to have a little higher knowledge of PHP but that was mentioned upfront so expectations were set. Great use of code examples and showing how things can be done along with "gotchas". Help really enforce some of the items from the SOLID talk as well!

I did a lot of cursor control programing on VT220 terminals way back in the early 90's. I haven't even thought about doing this with my CLI scripts. This will take my scripts to the next level. Thank you for making some very old skills relevant again.

Excellent talk as promised!!! Keep up the great work grmpy!

I will be trying this out on all my production servers today! Just kidding :)... I'll definitely be testing it out for future projects.

Excellent analogies to explain the SOLID model. Would love to see more examples of the usage.

Excellent session!! Biggest thing I learned is that it's probably not for us now, but it could ve a very viable option in the future. I'll be keeping an eye on the HipHop project.