PHP North West 2011
7 - 9 Oct 2011
at Ramada Manchester Picadilly
Talk comments
Crowd was great, lots of really interesting conversation, and it's always really cool to see everyone informally before the Saturday track day.
Kro's staff service was really good, but the way we had an area situated between both the bar and the restaurant was quite awkward, especially keeping an eye on the Wiis and equipment near the door which kept being unlocked throughout the night... Private room is definitely the way to go if possible.
Music was very loud, albeit pretty good quality. To be expected on a Friday night in a Piccadilly bar.
I've actually enjoyed the extensive introduction on ORM.
What i liked is that Joe presented with enthusiasm and obviously knows his stuff.
This got me inspired to look into Doctrine2 for sure.
It was really good to get an overview of the things that are new in ZF2.
Enrico pointed out that the components described in the talk/slides might slightly change in the future, but all in all the presentation provided a good overview of what's coming.
It was a fun and good pre-conf social! Met a lot of people, which is good because it sets the tone for the rest of the conference.
As mentioned before, the music was too loud, but it didn't ruin the night or anything.
Interesting content and well delivered.
Enjoyed this one, good to be introduced to new tools in the field by someone with a clear understanding of the problems they're there to fix.
The discussion of the BDD tools may not have done them justice, the speaker didn't convince me of the benefits of incorporating design processes into tests - but then that may have been the point.
With a self-confessed bias towards certain offerings I know I'll need to look into things like BeHat and Atoum myself to make sure I understand where they can/could/should fit into a testing routine, but overall I got alot out of this talk.
+1
I'm new to ZF but this talk was still very useful for comparison with your (current) framework-of-choice. Enrico's examples were concise and practical and feature coverage was good too.
A very good perspective why you test and how you should test. Although ideas on things like copy/paste conflict with mine, and paranoia is in some cases a good attitude, I still found this talk informative and good entertainment.
Job well done
As a total Symfony2 newbie i very much enjoyed the global overview of the framework and the explanation of how to set up a Symfony2 application.
I think the choice of having a small website like linktuesday.com as a practical example was a good one. Also, launching linktuesday.com as an open source project was pretty cool.
Code samples that big are hard to show in a presentation. Adri Kodde has a good point; maybe you can upload the slides right before the presentation.
But then again... the WiFi.
Was really satisfied overall!