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

A really relaxed, confident and engaging speaker, and the perfect way to start the day. I'm a sucker for tidbits of history, so the talk really appealed to me.

I need to see this talk again. Shame that it was cut short ! Interesting and consistent all the way.

Excellent talk ! I like the slightly chaotic presentation style Scott has.

Of course it's fascinating to see how a company like Facebook does things. Throwing around crazy numbers always adds to the fascination.

I learned a thing or two about the flow and management behind large development teams that ensure quality regardless of the number of developers on a single code base.

Without a doubt the best conference speaker I've seen. Very well presented, good coverage of the topic, and good fun too. Thijs' ability to quickly back-up points with live demos, and quickly test audience suggestions really added to the quality of the talk too.

Dude, this comment comes with lots of love.

The fact you stood up and spoke was awesome. Its good to see new people try.

The topic itself was a bit :/

I think your presentation was not aimed at the right audience and I felt like you were saying stuff that employers / and employees already knew.

I would have liked to see the more *personal experience* and ask the audience as a community how we can demand more from the academia world.

I know this topic is very personal to me and to all graduates as afterwards we are left with this * is that it?* feeling.

Regardless of topic, the talk lacked a little passion and emotion. People like Jez and Lorna are really good talkers because they inject passion and emotion into their speech. Eg: Lorna talking to 100 people also sounds like Lorna talking to just you. As a delegate that is important. It makes it easier to pay attention and be as annoyed or as passionate about the topic being talked about.

When you talk about rubix cubes, you have passion and a eagerness to show people - if you can insert that into your talk it will improve vastly.

Really suggest you look up the conference speaking 101 talks by Stefan or Lorna to improve on your speaking techniques.

So proud that you stood up and spoke though. Sorry if im being mean.

xx

A fun and engaging talk.

My only feedback would that the first half was quite boring and dragged on. I can understand why he discussed subjects like TDD, you only write what you need, therefore cleaner code, etc. However, that point could have been covered in about 2 minutes. Would have been nicer if the entire talk was more code related like the second half.

Engaging talk with great flow. The speaker was worried about his accent, but I had no problems understanding him. Well presented and argued point.

Great talk. Engaging and didn't slow in pace.

It did cover the basics instead of more complex security problems, but then with those being the top reported security holes it made sense (this was explained in the talk).

I think this talk would be much better suited for an hour slot instead of 30 mins. That way the basics can be covered in the first half, with the remaining spent on more complex security holes like CSRF.

The after party was very good. You only needed to see the look of death on my face to know how much I actually enjoyed it.

The food was great. The two bars made it a lot easier to get served. Once the free bar was over, the pints weren't that expensive either.

My only complaint would be the price of spirits. ~£7.00 for a gin (single) and tonic was ridiculous.

Good call on the cake and Mario Kart too.

I'm going to honest, I didn't learn anything new from this talk, but it was incredibly engaging fun.

I can certainly imagine if I hadn't used CLI before this would have been a great introduction. Very engaging with lots of simple demos that were easy to understand and follow.

The only minor feedback I do have is it would be good to "clear" (CTRL + L) between each live demo so it's at the top of the screen and so we can see it.