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

I liked the talk because Sebastian showed a very good overview of all the tools and processes you need to be agile and you have to do for high quality software. But 60 minutes are way too short for this big topic.

This talk didn't hit the heights I know David can deliver. Problem for me was that I'd heard most of the jokes in his talk last year, and the chaotic live demo section was dull. I don't know why someone would turn up to speak in front of so many people without trying out the code first. A good talk, but it could have been much better. That said, I would definitely go to another of David's talks because of his presentation style, which is very engaging.

I've used XDebug for a while now for profiling. Following this talk I've already got Netbeans setup for remote debugging and am trying out some of the other settings covered. One of the more immediately useful talks of the conference to me; things I can try on Monday to make my life easier. Derek has a slightly rambling presentation style, but I always enjoy his talks, not least because you are guaranteed a live demo or two.

I always enjoy Ian's talks. He has a very casual, effortless style because he talks about subjects that he knows really well - and thats obvious from the first slide.

The talk covered huge amounts of information about the subject - but progressed through it from the basics - to much more advanced messaging architectures in a way that was easy to understand. The content of the talks was such that anyone who had no experience of message queueing could attend, but still come away able to have a first crack at implementation.

I would have liked it if the talk had gone over some some of the reasons why you might _need_ 0mq, rather than just wanting to find a way to use it, and I'm very glad that the code from the talk is available on github (maybe mention that earlier in the talk?) because I found it whizzed by quite quickly.

I liked this talk, Tobias was a good speaker and the information was helpful, I especially liked the line highlighting in the code example as this helped to follow the code, which can otherwise be a bit hard to do. I also think that the choice to gloss over some implementation details, it seemed some in audience found this frustrating but personally I liked t - it get's too boring if you go into too much detail.

I really enjoyed Ian's talk and think it was a solid introduction to the ZeroMQ tech. I thought there were a few too many code examples to take in; towards the end I wasn't concentrating on the code at all. The presentation technique was excellent.

Good talk, David was a great presenter and added humour into the talk rather than being quite dry. Good examples, even though the example went wrong! Overall good though.

Really good talk, very good technical examples and good live demos

I found Marco's talk to be a bit slow-to-the-point, and lacking energy. I know he was terribly jet-lagged, and I wasn't expecting a song and dance routine - but I felt it didn't leave me inspired.

Content wise, Marco is bang-on: Its rarely a 'stupid user' problem, and developers shouldn't be thinking of themselves as users of the system they are building. His points about how the 'magic' of Disneyland can be applied to software development are valid and interesting.

I think that more anecdote and story-telling would have shown more of Marco's personality.

One of the best talks of the day with good examples. Only thing I would improve is the copy&paste; of commands that I found a bit confused to the screen colors I guess. Great talk!