PHPNW 2014
3 - 5 Oct 2014 at Manchester Conference Centre

Good eye opener that failures are happening and We need to learn from them. I can't understand why did speaker focused too much on blaming cucumber and bringing too much negative vibe to this talk. I am looking forward to try shouldit

Pretty good talk that gives a clear overview of how you could go about refactoring legacy code and why and when you would do that. But that was not what I expected form the title.

I did find the talk a bit slow at times and I think speeding it up a bit would also help in presenting it just a little bit better.

Thanks every one for the constructive criticism. I knew I might upset people in the room before I started but that was definitely not my goal.

On reflection I know I should have spent a LOT less time mentioning the pain Cucumber caused us and a LOT more time showing you how good and easy it is to use 'ShouldIT?'.

'ShouldIT?' is just around the corner from being released on Github. I am keen to carrying on sharing about it because it has genuinely helped me to do spec based BDD development more rapidly whilst still having confidence I am delivering software to the specification provided. I will probably write some blog posts and maybe even some screencasts to emphasise some of the points that were perhaps missing from the talk.

@everzet has also been kind enough to reach out with advice on how this talk can be tailored to be more positive for the community.

Thanks again..

Definitely interesting subject. This is quite new pattern and there was not many examples of the pattern in action. Speaker did know the pattern, but there were moments with no enthusiasm about Action-Domain-Responder

A highly technical topic and a highly technical speaker. The combination of which came together really well to provide a very well presented and informative talk.

I think this was aimed a bit more at the complete novice PHP developer as anyone who uses PHP with anger day-to-day would have known the majority of this anyway. But regardless of that it was well presented and informative.

This is actually the first time I've seen Anthony speak at a conference. I'm really glad I had the chance to see him talk. You can tell he does this a lot and really enjoys it and he seems to have a natural talent for it. He engages his audience extremely well and is obviously an expert in what he talks about. I came out of every one of Anthony's talks feeling incredibly amateurish but nonetheless enlightened.

Great speaker and a very good talk as well. The talk covered a lot of ground and Davey did a great job in explaining new features and why and when you would want to use them.
Thought it went a bit fast at times and I would have wanted a bit more detail at some of the examples (especially the generators)

Am really in awe of the seemingly effortless way you are able to present complicated technical problems and solutions.

Thinking outside the box about design patterns with examples and enthusiasm. Great!

I simply agree with all of the above and want to give it a 6 as well.
Yes, it was THAT good.
Sharp, witty, with some very, very valuable lessons to be learned.
Excellent delivery: your "unter" cool attitude goes well with the points you're actually making.

I think the slide deck was maybe just there to make sure everybody got their quotes correct? ;-) Never seen almost every quote on the slides from a talk getting repeated on twitter.

Think it must mean something if so many people value what you're saying.