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

Good overview of EC2 services, but the balance was a bit too much on what you can do, and less on how. Could have used more on tools.

Liked the topic. Good mixture message / humour.

Knowledgeable guy, obviously deployed to this platform a lot. Nice set of practical examples showing where the problems are too, so not just a sales pitch which talks like this sometimes turn into.

Delivery could have been a bit more lively, I had to put some effort into paying attention rather than being grabbed - but it was stuff I've been meaning to look at. Again, another set of slides I'll definitely be going back to for reference.

Z0MG, very cool stuff. I like it when a talk just jumps straight into code and demos. Ian kept the examples very concise and easy to follow. Quickly demonstrated some of the key patterns and possibilities with 0MQ. Made me consider quite a few things about writing applications and going back to a much more Unix-like style of chaining lots of little components together.

Well presented, Ian was enthusiastic and it made the code presentation interesting. The look of the slides was cool too, bit of a 1970's Open University vibe in places - but still clean and modern. Will definitely be going back to the presentation and code as a reference.

Nice overview of api backend driven solution.

Amazing technology well presented with infectious enthusiasm maybe for me a little too much content crammed in coding examples were good.

Brilliant. Ian always delivers a great talk. Good introduction to 0MQ, covered some basic principles of distributed systems, and brought it altogether with clear examples in PHP. If you are having problems scaling your enterprise applications, the areas covered by this talk are going to useful to you. One of the best talks I've been to in a long time.

Amazingly informative introduction to an equally amazing tool.

I wasn't enthused, and it didn't really seen to touch on PHP much.

Good speaker - 0MQ looks powerful & flexible.