PHP North West 2011
7 - 9 Oct 2011 at Ramada Manchester Picadilly

Matthew seemed to know a fair amount about this topic, however he focused on the wrong things for me. I feel I personally would have got a lot more out of this talk if it was focused more on the marketing benefits of social media integration.

I feel it could be improved by either going deeply into the Facebook twitter APIs, or deeper into the marketing aspects, user profiling etc.

I didn't really learn anything in this talk, however the talk style was so engaging, fun, made it one of the best talks of the conference.

I'd love to see another talk by Thijs. Loved the style.

For a practical look at Symfony2 this could have done with a few more instances of dropping down to the console and actually doing stuff - as risky as this is when people are looking it would have the talk a lot more engaging.

I don't really feel like this was targeted at people who have had any MVC/Framework experience, so it didn't help me.

The example code was also far too small.

Good talk, mostly interesting to see what Facebook do, and a fair amount of it was only applicable to a engineer driven company like Facebook. A few gems in there that I am going to see if I can re-use in my work.

Good talk, good amount of information. Could have covered more in the time given. Got me excited enough about Doctrine 2 that I'm going to give it ago and try to put something together with it.

Good introduction to rest, built on some of the things I already knew about REST with some new techniques and some neat tricks.

Presentation was well delivered too.

Good opening talk. Nothing revolutionary but nice to warm up to the weekend.

Like the other people mentioned, this was a controversial talk.
Academia vs professional/'real-world'. Whilst I agree there is a very different need in academia to teach people to think about things themselves, it doesn't prepare people for the actualities of the real-world. But in a short module, is it better to teach a wide range of things 'poorly', or a few things 'perfectly'. Certainly food for thought, thank you :)

Very good talk. I'm only marking it down because it was cut short/material was for a longer presentation.
Seemed the right amount of detail to go into for an hour long talk though!

The title of the talk did not match the content provided. Whilst it was a somewhat interesting talk, it seemed a bit weird to talk about Wordpress and plugins for an 'anti-CMS'. It would in fact seem quite opposite.