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

This presentation actually put a little downer on the whole conference. Putting on voices making it sound like developers in her team were pathetic for not understanding the "obvious" just made me question whether I would ever want to work for someone like that and whether high level tech companies employ project leads who talk about their dev teams like that outside of the business.

I found it less informative than others because after around 30mins I was lost with the concepts they were talking about. It was really nitty gritty test theory (perhaps the clue was in the title) and this required a high level intricate knowledge of the semantics of test suites and practices.

If the deliverly was less ranty then no matter the content or feeling it wasn't for me it would have made it more enjoyable as a talk.

Enrico fastidiously avoided announcing any release dates, but he was still able to engage my interest. He did a good job explaining some of the more complex principles that will be available.
My only criticism is that I thought he skipped over a few of the subjects a bit quickly.

An inspiration journey through the entrepreneurs of our industry (starting with Alan Turing) and how they each took the ideas before them and improved them. It was a nice first talk of the day, and wasn't too heavy for first thing on a Saturday morning.

Interesting talk and project, even for a non-PEAR user. Well presented, enthusiastic, clear & concise.

Good talk. Would've been nice to have seen some of the UI fails redesigned and shown how they could have been better.

Interesting and pleasant if not the most ground-breaking talk of the day.

Interesting talk but perhaps a 15 min unconference talk wasn't the best format. Having never heard of Mustache before I was left still not completely sure of how to use them or their advantages over other systems.

However, the talk interested me enough to want to look into the topic more so it wasn't all bad.

Not a bad presentation but I think the talk suffered from a lack of direction at times. The talk seemed to jump between what employers should be looking for/be wary of, what potential students should consider and complaining about one specific course.

Given the attendees to PHPNW11 I think more focus on the potential pitfalls for employers and possibly some examples of questions/tests they could perform to help weed out poor applicants would have improved the talk greatly.

All that said, the talk was far from the worst I've seen and there were still some interesting points made.

As a Varnish newbie I found this talk very interesting. Good overview of what Varnish does and how it does it.

Did seem to disregard some of the problems of Varnish without fully explaining how they could be avoided. Good introductory talk, not sure how much experienced users would have got from it.

Not quite what was expected. Talk mostly listed the potential testing tools with little discussion rather than providing a set of tools and a workflow that was practical and usable.

Still interesting to see some of the different tools available and some of the benefits/problems with them.

Very good talk. Just the right mix of theory, practical application and some of the weaknesses of the different metrics. Good to see recommendations for tools to use & resources for further information.