PHP North West 2010 (PHPNW10)
8 - 10 Oct 2010 at Manchester Conference Centre

As the leader of a team myself I found a lot of this very interesting. Left me with a few ideas to try out and was great to have the rest of team responding positively as well. I found Lorna's delivery (as always) to be great - clear and "friendly".

I initially thought this talk may have been preaching to the converted, but realised that attendance at a conference is but a part of being involved in such a community. Great way to wrap the conference and I look forward to seeing Michaelangelo talk in the future.

I'm not sure why this was on day 2. The content was rich enough and relevant to every attending delegate and I hope Thijs takes this talk to many conferences. Well delivered and very funny despite the time pressure and an invaluable insight into a world that as devs, we all should know more about.

Great introduction to nginx delivered with a good sense of humour. Gave me practical ideas on better ways to fulfil some upcoming requirements. However, the data on server market share (is it still 'market share' for FOSS?) presented was impossible to follow if colourblind - which would have been 10% of the audience. Accessibility isn't just for websites!

Good social and nice to have a free drinks :) I also liked having food on-site as it kept more people around for longer.

A good talk about where the performance bottlenecks are in ZF1 and some ideas on the strategies you can use to combat them. Would have liked some concrete examples that included before and after benchmarks.

A good talk by a good speaker. Nice to see assertions being covered as the ZF manual's coverage of them is woeful. Possibly a little too many consecutive code slides making it hard to keep track and I'd have liked a little more strategies for how to choose your ACL organisation.

I think Rob could quite easily have skipped things like showing us the commands to download and install Apache, and then a video of downloading and installing Apache. The talk did pick up with some more interesting things like the demo of Netbeans with XDebug but I fear some indifference had been engendered with the audience by that stage.

A very enjoyable talk with lots of information about what worked and what didn't on the system that run php|a. Possibly the best case-study I've heard.

Talk of the day for me. David's sense of humour, delivery, timing, confidence and slide design combine to enliven what could be a very dry topic in the wrong hands.