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

Not that now I'm eager to write my own extension for PHP but for sure a very well presented and organised talk. I agree with Robert Goldsmith, Derick could have covered easily up to three different talks elaborating a bit further the material proposed.
Anyway I liked the way he left the code itself alone in the dark focusing instead more about the "what and why" or maybe "when and why" I would say, exposing especially what you should pay attention to when writing an extension rather than how to write them.
Also, the 200 and count presence as speaker for Derick helped to crown this talk as one of my favourite along my three days of attendance.

I really like the talk, I used and I still use to work with RESTful and/or RESTlike interfaces but mostly indeed in the traditional and wrong way of using out-of-band information, documentation and IDL to describe them typical of SOA systems. The concept of Hypermedia extends forward the concept of RESTful and takes it to its real nature. Hypermedia as constraint to facilitate decoupling between client and server that's what resume in few words a very interesting and well delivered talk.

Amazing keynote which gave me back a good amount of my lost will power and inspiration making think it's definitely time to get back on truck and contribute back to the community a community that till now never stopped to feeding me with always new and great ideas.

I have to give a full 5 thumbs up to this tutorial. Despite the connectivity issues we got plus being the first class room about the topic Stuart did an awesome job. The tutorial left me very satisfied and with thousand ideas about how to use the fantastic tool which is "Phix". If I have to give an advice just for the sake of it I would recommend Stuart to specify any particular requirements about the dec environment required only because due to the current status of the art windows users might have some problems as it indeed happened. Other than that I cannot say really anything else... I think that so far I never had such a great tutorial session. Well done.

I have to agree with Sebastian it's been more a kind of deep and very well presented talk rather than a tutorial from you would expect more hands on the code and more interaction for the attendees.

One remarkable thing which I liked and usually don't happen is that Arne discussed not only implication about software security but also hardware security, physical access to the datacenter and such. It doesn't matter how secure is your software if everyone can access the server room without proper supervision or any other kind of restriction.

Overall I've been anyway satisfied.

I felt Matthew was really nervous at the start. I agree that it would be better if he would dig into FB and twitter API more. I would find it far more interesting. Also I was surprised that it finished so quickly! Overall, interesting talk and good slides!

That was black horse of the conference. Really good talk with a lot of real life examples. In places Laura let her feeling get out too much, although I can understand that as It happens to me too. A better introduction would be great too - will give other the much needed context of what Laura does in her day to day job and what experience does she have. Great topic, well delivered! I am in fact thinking about using it as a base for training material for developers with little or no experience in software testing.

First of all, don't worry about the rating. It was one of the talks that I wanted to hear the most. It inspired me so much that I spent all the time on Sunday playing with Behat instead of listening to the talks really! And then I got it all running at work after 2 days.

Now to the point. VERY INTERESTING talk, but with some major flaws. First of all, a lot of slides were hardly visible, especially at the back. With wider audience it will be really hard to follow the presentation. The videos weren't a good idea either - even harder to see! And yes the typos. It could give an impression you never run it.

But I really liked it anyway. Good stuff!

Amazing talk, in my opinion the best this year. It was great to hear how the giants do it. Scott delivered it perfectly with his usual charisma. Shame it only lasted for an hour, I could easily listen to Scott for hours.

Good talk, although as always I wanted it to be more technical. Unfortunately the topic is very difficult and lacks of official resources/documentation. Didn't really learn anything new, but it was a good overview of "php extensions" world for the people that never had a chance to dig into it. Well delivered, engaging and overall interesting.