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

Not as useful as I'd hoped. Being new to Symfony2 I would have preferred an overview and framework comparison, rather than a practical example. Also, the slides weren't displayed properly on the screen - way too small. Nevertheless, it was still an interesting talk.

Intersting talk on the different php testing systems available and this prompted me to attend the Behat talk which I am going to investigate in greater detail.

Was a good introduction talk on REST, liked how it was personal to Ben's experiences in writing fdrop.it and problems he had overcome, i thought the live demo was the highlight (albeit brave considering the wifi).

Thanks for the feedback - will definitely use the comments to improve this talk!

Slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/michieltcs/deploying-php-applications-with-phing

A real gem of a talk, as much by accident as by design. A cascade of technical failures may have killed other talks but for Rowan it was simply an opportunity to make his talk even more enjoyable. "What could go wrong" indeed!

That aside, the actual talk content was spot on, and relevant to pretty much anyone remotely involved in development. Damn glad I was able to see it.

While I feel i didn't get the promised PHPWoman introduction I was provided with enough pieces to make of the whole thing in the end so 'Mission accomplished' i guess.

It felt the discussion had some value at least so I don't like my time was wasted :)

A useful introduction to Varnish. I do think a little too much time was given over to the ESI functionality, and I would have liked to see a bigger focus on use cases / real world examples.

Delivered exactly what I was hoping for with this talk. Sebastian tried very hard not to be too biased towards PHPunit, and presented a great deal of other useful tools for testing along with a brief overview of his findings of them.

I'll certainly be looking at test mutation & Atoum after this talk.

Overall, a pretty useful talk, especially the mention of integrating xhprof into your unit tests.

Really interesting talk as I knew nothing about Behat before attending. This is something I can see me using in the future and Phabric looks very useful too also.