Talk comments

Good subject, explained well. I never realised this was your first talk.. was it really? You have a calm and relaxed way of speaking , with good humor. Your slides where also excellent!

Willem-Jan picked a too short slot to explain PHPCR in any detail at all.. so this rating is a three.
BUT: I think there's absolutely space for those last two thumbs up with a longer talk and a little more rehearsal. Keep it up!

I love the format, I love the interaction. IMO, this should not be a "talk", but a recurring track on other conferences as well...
What could have been done better was the intro; where it's made clear that the points on screen are to be attacked by the audience and defended by the speakers.

As an alternative format (if the group is not too large), you could draw a line through the room, select a subject, and let the aucience take seats according to their opinion. It creates the opportunity for opening questions like "why are you sitting on that side". It should also be possible to switch sides during the discussion if you're convinced by the other side.

-- during the fight a point was made that we clarified some of the "issues" and it should be documented. If this hooliganism should catch on, and be repeated, the updated points could evolve and be discussed further by a totally different group...

My thoughts are flying on this.. as you can see: highly inspirational!

I think Gary Hockin is a fun and entertaining speaker to listen to, but the subject material wasn't for me I guess.. I've seen too much "people are suckers" type of doing business for my taste.

I'm not new to the subjects and tools explained in the talk (except charles, which has been added to the arsenal instantly). But I was very much impressed with Lorna's ability to explain the material.
You get a sense of simplicity that I never experienced while learning how to debug this stuff on my own.

Your talk was really great and shows the possibilities and future of Redis.

The video was excellent! Amazing to see an edited video of the day before - extra browny points to the video guys.
But I do feel conflicted about the dutch intro.. mostly dutch visitors, an unknown number of which may not speak english - a handful of visitors who don't speak dutch. But then there's the speakers...
Perhaps a dual language intro/outro would do better?

on Opening

I heard it was your first talk but it was really nice! Keep up the good talks and probably i will see you again!

Very nice talk about REST services and the other different services unfortunately there was not enough time for your whole tal.

Thank you Mike for your out of the box talk about phpDocumentor !
It show me its very easy for my self and the other programmers in my team.

So i think we gonna start to use it in every project now !