PHP UK Conference 2012
24 - 25 Feb 2012 at Business Design Center

An interesting and refreshingly different talk - well done Zoe for conceiving it and the organisers for accepting it. Favourite quote was about setting business targets based on number of lines of code written. Thought provoking, hilarious and painfully close to home in equal measure.

I attended about 15 minutes of this talk, and I'm afraid I thought it was simply an Oracle infomercial, which was a bit shortsighted about how companies that are not 'oracle shops' run MySQL in practice. Maybe I missed the good bit.

Thanks for the feedback everyone! Since it was the first time I did the talk I was wondering if it was in-depth enough, and this feedback really helps me to determine that.

I just uploaded the slides (except for some metaphorical pictures that don't make a lot of sense without the context ;-)) and added the link to the talk description on top of this page.

Very entertaining presentation, and certainly will make my code nostrils more sensitive in future! ;-)

Quite ironic that the following presentation contained several code examples with smelly qualities, despite the obvious knowledge/experience of the speaker. I get the impression most of us break the rules fairly routinely.

Please could you post the slides somewhere?

Very interesting, and plenty of examples. Having used Mongo via an ORM for the best part of a year, I ended up taking away a few interesting tips from this. Makes you realise how much the ORM abstracts away, and how you need to know the technology under the hood really before using one. Thanks!

As James mentioned, I wasn't sure how you entered this raffle. Also, with the milling around of everyone, you were barely audible even with a microsphone (and we were stood close to the bottom of the stairs too).

I really enjoyed this talk; one of my favourites of the conference. Well presented, very clear and concise. I sat there cringing and going "Yep, done that" when every smell came up ;-)

Very useful talk - lots of clear examples and lots to take away. Thanks!

A well constructed talk which was delivered in a very entertaining and open manner. There were times when I felt a terminal window would have been a better place to explain but then an example slide came along.

For me the highlight of the day. Interested when the speakers agreed with each other - and also when the didn't (cookies - ahem)!