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

Ideal talk to get the conference going. Interesting, funny and a little thought-provoking (although not too much for the first talk of the morning).

The session gave me a huge motivation to create API's to better glue our internal resources together, and maybe later easily share them to the public.

Great and straightforward example code. One tip for future talks would be to warn participants to have their vhosts ready, as the time was limited.

Thanks :)

One of the best talks of the conference for me. Nice to see a presenter with more slides than they have time, and skips the ones they don't have time for, rather than trying to talk thro' each and every one.

But I'm still wondering how many people in the audience were being paid the equivalent of 5,000 euros...

I found this interesting because I've worked in universities, and recognised many of the problems which the speaker faced. Edgehill may have gotten the technology sorted, but the biggest (unsolved) problem was their users. I'd be interested to know if they manage to get departments to look after their own content.

Interesting on what they needed to build their site - not a full-grown CMS, but something much more simple.

Good talk, good points, and some excellent points about why contributing to opensource is good for teams and companies. Inspiring.

Amusing, well-delivered, good speaker, but not particularly useful. Work colleagues were categorised in some interesting ways, but I can't remember much on how to deal with all these difficult people. Be nice to them?

Um. Not sure about this one. Discussions can be good & helpful, but the audience didn't have enough thinking time to come up with anything that sounded purposeful or practical. Useful as an introduction to phpwomen.

Interesting talk. Never knew this existed, but can already see where it might be useful in future. Nice summary, quick, clean and to the point.

Good talk. Made me interested in both joind.in itself AND in contributing to the opensource development.

I learnt a lot about what ZF2 might be like, but the description of the tutorial on the website could have been better. I would say that a fairly detailed knowledge of ZF1 was absolutely essential, not just helpful. Also the version of PHP required needs to be absolutely specified (5.3 was not correct, I think it should be 5.3.3)