PHP North West 2008
22 - 23 Nov 2008 at Manchester, UK

I bit of a rant, and similar but not as good as the London conference.

Some valid points though.

The food was too spicy (but that was fixed on the night). The music was a bit too loud. Free drinks very appreciated ;)

Having two Wii's there was even better than one. I played some nice races, was quite fun. All around good time.

Having the Wii with Mario Kart there was excellent. Being kicked out of the downstairs room and then out of two upstairs rooms was less fun. Music was too loud. But it was great to meet all the people

I liked the discussion quite a lot. The panel members were a good representation of the community, and were doing very well in answering the questions. Discussion was led very well by Jeremy.

A good overview. I got the idea though that, given a bit more time, things could've been made more clear.

Well done. One thing that really stuck to me was the way you can document your regexp by using comments, I had no idea that was possible.

Excellent talk, well presented, well explained. Very clear.

slightly less good than at IPC, but probably mostly due to jetlag. I still loved it though.

Although I wasn't sure beforehand, after this talk I will definitely be seriously looking into the Zend Framework. He started to lose me near the end, but I suppose it was just a case of looking at code and not coding. I might even be buying the book! :)

Interesting (and funny) talk about usability and website design. Not heard the term flashturbation before, but it completely makes sense.

Derick even followed KISS in his slides by having a maximum of 2 words per slide.