PHP North West 2009
10 - 11 Oct 2009 at Manchester, UK

The slides contains very good content, and I'll be looking at them later on slide share. I am definitely going to look into using the SPL classes more in the future.

A clever mix of quantum theory, philosophy, humour, project management and coding.

I didn't realise I knew so little about languages, encodings and fonts. Juliette obviously spoke from experience and presented the information she had learned through her trials and tribulations in creating and maintaining a multilingual site.

A whistle stop tour of the new bits and pieces from PHP 5.3. Well presented and informative. Lots of content I will need to read up on and lots of code examples I will need to try out. PHP 5.3 get a "hot" vote from me.

A little slow - could have had a bit more enthusiasm (personal opinion, I just like a bit of zing) but otherwise a lot of good content and some well presented ideas.

Could have been good to explain the profiles a bit more with the YSlow tool, it's very nice to be able to turn off tests that are not relevant or important so you can get the "A" to show your manager without getting a low score based on something you have no control over like gzipping or using a CDN.

I especially liked the way Thomas dealt with the "naughty kids" in the room who were having their own discussion - turns out they *did* have something to share with the rest of us :o)

Although I have read a lot about OOP in PHP but I attended this talk as I don't pretend to know everything and hoped to learn something.
The talk was well presented and informative and I did learn something I didn't know I didn't know.

I was worried this talk was going to be a flop, well done Stefan - it turned out pretty good! I'm going to look at a project we are just starting this week and see how I can use some of the Zend bits and bobs (Lucene maybe) to help us along, now you've demonstrated how simple it really is.

Great stuff - thanks for the food, the drinks, the Wii, the Literal Youtube videos (thanks to Thomas for the lappy) and of course the people. Was nice to have an option between a cosy bar atmosphere and somewhere to sit and chat.

I was considering giving this talk a 3 based on the fact that I was not expecting the "use a framework" talk that we got - however I realise that the introduction clearly mentions this, and it's my fail for not reading it! In fact, based on that, Michael delivered everything he said he would - and whilst not going technical enough for me, it was presented well.

I was worried this talk would try to follow the Joel test too closely and focus on bending the way we do things to fit into an imperfect model. I was pleasantly supprised that Lorna worked this angle into her presentation, and talked about how certain points applied (or didn't) to a typical web development team.

I would mark it down for the occasional tangents, but they were delivered with an enthusiastic smile so they didn't spoil the presentation at all.