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

I enjoyed Sebastians talk - he gave lots of details about calculating software quality metrics and introduced some useful tools. I went away from the talk with a list of things to take action on.

Sebastian was confident, and knowledgable. I was disappointed that the detail of Sonar seemed rushed through at the end, and for me, covered a lot of stuff I already knew early on in the talk. That said, it is necessary to cover the basics before going more complicated. Good Job

Jez being jez. Passionate and jazzy. I think it pricked up alot of ears for people who have used Pear packages before, and it lost a few people who don't. I think its due to the constraints of time rather than him.

Could have had slicker slides visually/graphically but the amount of content on each slide was perfect.

Very persuasive material in favour of OSM. I'll definitely default to checking out OSM in the future when I need mapping functionality because of the points Derick raised. Very entertaining even though he had to fit this into a short timeframe.

I've been going through adding my feedback on all the talks I attended at this conference and I think that this one really did suffer from the "great talk, too short a time" problem that seems to keep crop up.

I also however thought that the basing of this was a little too narrow. I've said before that Stefan is a great speaker, but I think the fact he didn't know about how to use git on windows machines let this talk down. Anyone who uses subversion on a linux or mac would I believe have made the switch, or be able to easily make the switch to git. But windows users probably need more guidence, and that part was lacking in this.

His knowledge of other areas was very extensive, but cut short. I've love to see this given at a gentler pace.

Can't say i'm planning on doing any talks anytime soon, but this was a great talk just for the insight gained from a guy who is obviously very good at doing just this.

Fantastic speaker, really relaxed and confident. Enjoyable talk with a light-hearted attitude to dealing with significant potential problems with developing with a team. Loved the "Don't do that" statements.

Great talk, very, very enthusiastic as always. I liked the detail on some of the issues they're having at the moment, and what is planned for the future. Even had a semi-live contribution demo, when Rob submitted a pull request later that day for the small bug found half way through the talk. :) I'm not sure how much I can help but this definitely spurred me to fork joind.in and have a look.

I am a huge fan of Ian's speaking. He is natural, talented speaker, who can make the most complex topics understandable. This was the first talk I've heard him give on a less 'technical' topic, and enjoyed it very much. It was a superb opening keynote and set the tone for the conference very well by making insightful observations, and useful metaphors.

Highly original, enjoyable and enlightening.

I got the impression from Matthew's talk that he *really* knows his subject, but also that he didn't go into much details about it. The talk itself was only half an hour and I think that this might have crippled what he would have said.

His explanations were so clear and concise however that there wasn't a need for questions about what he covered, but more generally on the areas surrounding that.

I think that Matthew would be ideally suited to giving an entry level tutorial day on this, and if he isn't doing it he should be.

Good talk Stefan, it really made me want to spend some time with you in the evening to chat about talking in general, the lightning talk just whetted my appetite, I would loved to have seen more.