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

Phabulous talk, very interesting. Great to see how Facebook manage the deployment of their changes. Also good to learn about phabricator.

David Goodwin said it all! Never heard of Twilio till you mention it. Live Demo was awesome.

Good talk focussing on how to write code someone else can work with quickly, a valuable skill! Enjoyed the lively presentation style.

Very good talk, writing code is only part of being a successful developer. In the age of Agile development methodologies, being able to communicate effectively and work in a team is essential.

I know pdf generation is a pain and it was cool to see how Jonathan and team have solved this problem. It was really cool for him to say where ideas for the solution were found and acknowledge the people.

Great talk Derick, we have some really nice ideas for OSM, and it was great to get such an informed and enthusiastic talk. I love you delivery and style, it's almost like you have delivered over 200 talks! ;)

A well timed presentation. it was interesting listening to the problems and the solutions that they are using and the reasons behind it. No doubt could be extended but it did give a taster of things to come.

It may be a preference of mine, but would have loved to see a little more passion + personality flaring from Michael.

Very enjoyable presentation. I hope it won't take the guys a month to put videos online just because they need to beep out all the swear words :)

Good talk and intro to some of the most common issues. Would be good to see same level of coverage for other issues in future.

I've been in a position to employ graduates for quite a few years now and have noticed a steady decline in the quality of them. Ben's talk actually opened my eyes as to why.

The content of the talk was well considered, and well constructed.

However I think he suffered from something he's going to suffer from for the next few year, his age. People seemed to have no objection to walking in during his presentation, making jokes, and then walking out. I don't give a flying fig if you happen to work for one of the largest companies on the internet, that just showed you to be rude. Just because *you've* never heard of the speaker, just because they're just left university, doesn't mean what they have to say isn't as, if not more important that what you do. His talk, his time, your rudeness.

Rant aside, his talk could have been improved with the use of a microphone and a better command of audience attention. Not asking for the mic and not heckling the interlopers are things that will come with confidence. I hope that Ben takes his crusade for better education further and gains this.