PHP UK Conference 2011
24 - 25 Feb 2011 at Business Design Centre

screens were low in side track 1, and the wifi kept going down, but then again we had 500+ geeks all trying to get on it :) Other than that its a great venue, staff were really on ball and lots of space for people to chill out in.

Great intro to new features and tags available in HTML5. Shame about the connection issues, but great video of developer feedback of IE deserved the round of applause. Now to find a copy online to show my colleagues who were in other talks...

Very energetic and well delivered talk.

Great talk and I took away some very useful information. I loved the WoW references myself :)

I loved this talk. I have been an advocate for this style of development for years and it is really great to see that someone is using this commercially and such a grasp on why it is such a great solution. In short, brilliant!

I really enjoyed Stuart's talk in '09, so I was really looking forward to this talk. Stuart speaks really well, his years of experience come through and his thorough and patient manner combined with an inclusive presenting style made it feel more like a classroom than a lecture hall - as though everyone in the room was learning - which was fantastic.

The talk resonated well with my own concerns about framework adoption, and I thought, presented both the problem, and the suggested solution in an easy-to-understand way. The content of the talk was not groundbreaking, but did suggest careful thought and planning in Gradwells engineering process. In its essence the talk is one anecdote about framework adoption and the life-cycle of a project adopting, embracing, living with and then migrating with/from them.

I would have liked it if Stuart had, rather than offering to speak himself to the managers of the audience, that he had taught us how better to sell this sort of idea ourselves. (not an issue I currently face).

Great job - and I look forward to a follow-up in 2013

I think I would have got more out of this talk if I had not attended Seb Bergmanns 'Agility and Quality' earlier in the day. Thorsten came across as knowledgable but nervous - gaining confidence as he moved on to talk about the software Mayflower has created for CI. That said, there wasn't much in this talk I could usefully take away.

I thought Sebastian delivered a really good talk - it had more humour than previous times I've seen Sebastian speak, and came across much more passionate about the topic too.

The content was a really good roundup of agile practices and how to implement them successfully to improve the quality of your software project. He covered the tools available to do this well (many of which Sebastian himself created), and critically too - voicing his opinions on what was available with confidence. I felt that Seb has tried these tools out and mentioned which were the best, so that I don't have to.

Overall - I enjoyed this talk a great deal. My only criticism would be that it felt like Sebastian was rushed through some of the content but I know how tight conference timings have to be.

I really enjoyed the talk because I always had the feeling that Lorenzo has a very big knowledge about NoSQL databases. The introduction was very theoretical but I liked it and it's really important to know this basic stuff to decide between relational databases or NoSQL solutions.

Amazed at some of the other comments; but I guess this outlines the difficulty in talking on such a subject. Understanding the "base concepts" and "academic" details are _absolutely critical_ for anyone who has any serious interest in using any of these distributed systems in real life. Fair enough if you don't want to use these systems, but then you were probably at the wrong talk. Hint: use MySQL (it's amazing).

I found the talk really interesting. Some of the concepts covered I've heard explained many times before in a much poorer way. The comparison of the available systems was fantastically useful; gaining this much knowledge on the subject would take weeks of research. I'm going to go and check out the slides and read up on some of the references! Cheers.