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

Sadly this was the least engaging talk for me for the conference.

The biggest problem was the slides were mostly code examples that were simply unreadable. The text needs to be nice and big so it can be read, especially when you're introducing people to it for the first time that haven't seen it. This made it very hard to engage with this talk.

I also think this wasn't really a "practical" look at Symfony2, more an introduction and a quick look at the basic usage. This talk needs to either be an introduction for new users, or instead an in depth look into an existing application for existing users.

Unbelievably engaging and inspiring talk. Wasn't bored for a second. Although was this more the content than the speaker? :)

A good talk on the different testing solutions out there. It was quite biassed towards PHPUnit, although Sebastian admitted this from the start.

I do it was a tad slow and boring, so didn't engage as much as I did other talks.

Very interesting talk. Engaging and informative.

Inspiring and engaging.

Very inspirational.

1 drink per badge policy and 2 separate bars made this a much better party.

My favourite talk of PHPNW11, a great pity he ran out of time. Could probably get rid of the first section, about how valuable our time is (I'd hope everyone already realised this :) ), and get straight onto the techniques.
Unfortunate about the mic feedback problems, but other than that, excellent delivery.

While the talk was delivered well, I was somewhat surprised that a talk entitled "Anti-CMS Evolved" was about how a free CMS had been integrated with an existing symphony based website.

Didn't feel it was the sort of topic that had enough content to sustain it, but I still got some useful ideas fro it.