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

Agree with some of the comments above, it did in bits sound like a rant at a dev team, but Laura obviously was tasked with sorting out years of bad practice in terms of testing so its probably hard not to rant, and in places it was a little distracting but the points were all valid and overall the message was received. Look forward to going back over the slides and revisiting.

As always an interesting and informative talk excellently delivered.

Nice to see where ZF2 is heading but I think the language barrier caused some issues with the questions.

One of the best talks of the conference - I wish Paul had had a full hour, no, 2 hours to go through his material. Really fascinating subject, excellently presented and with clear code examples to boot.

A note to the conference organisers - this really should have been moved to the Saturday - people need to know this stuff.

Good talk, interesting hearing about the inclusion of DI container and event manager in ZF2. But couldn't help but feel the talk lacked any depth as the slides were just re-iterated and not explained in detail. Even though ZF2 has not reached beta, some of these features still could have made for an interesting technical overview of the advantages they will bring to ZF2.

The question about the DIC I thought was valid, essentially asking if the DI container configuration is independent from the component to allow objects to be mocked when testing. The question probably wasn't direct, but it was a shame it never received an answer.

A great lessons in openness and sharing. Enthusiastically delivered to boot. Excellent.

Excellent talk giving some insite into the kind of distributed development and scale I could only dream of putting in place.

Good reminder on the basic building blocks of the web.

Agree with some of the other comments, i was there because i have knowledge of Doctrine and wanted to find out about Doctrine 2, as the talk summary suggested 'dive in head first and learn the doctrine way in this workshop' Joe spent too long getting to this for me.

However he was a good speaker and clearly knew his topic well, had an impact as we are looking at doctrine 2 this morning.

Now this was a useful talk. Real world feedback of what does and doesn't work, complete with fairly stern "don't do it like that!' warnings. Laura is a *good* speaker.