PHP UK Conference 2015
18 - 20 Feb 2015 at The Brewery

Brilliant - well presented and thought out. My only why not 5 stars, perhaps was expecting a little bit more insight into PHP itself and how to solve memory issues, or maybe a bit of relevance into the how/if the tools work with cloud deployments.

But overall, fantastic, thanks.

Hands on, practical and informing.

As some of the other comments said, Jenny is obviously passionate about the topic and made some good points, but - and I'm really sorry to say this - I felt "told off" and the points were over-laboured to the point I thought it was very condescending. I know there are points that needed to be made, but rather (than for example the closing keynote) than making us feel enabled to make a change it felt quite deflating.

My point is, that I understand the battles, but we still need debates, so take that passion and belief and tell people wordpress is good rather than tell us off for dissing it (I incidentally like Wordpress!); I mean as PHP devs we are mocked frequently but the "real" languages, but we stand strong and fight our corner but at the same time, we do laugh at ourselves.

Engaging, fun and informative.

everything that you could ask for.

thanks

Tough to squeeze in a lot into an hour on 2 technologies that could take an hour each and more, thanks

Just what was needed to get everyone in the mindset of the next 2 days, thanks

Thank you everybody for all the feedback, I really appreciate it and I am so pleased that so many people have enjoyed and been able to take something from the talk

@Stewart
The "adverts" were there for a little bit of levity between the chapters, however if instead of providing that they instead provided a distraction to the content, then they have failed in their purpose and I may look at removing them should I deliver this talk again. Thanks for the tip

@Ian
The diagrams were put together quite late, and I didn't have the time to make them look as nice as I should have. I intend on making sure they are a bit clearer should I deliver this talk again

@Andrew and @Alex
I tried as best I could to aim the talk at the maximum possible audience, which meant tailoring it to a beginner/intermediate level. I perhaps could have made this clearer in the abstract and/or title.
I'm sorry if you feel the presentation wasted your time due to this

Once again, thank you all for coming and watching my presentation

Thanks Ben!

https://github.com/LoveSoftware/toolboxdemo

A lot of the content was sourced from the interesting reads section of the README file.

Hope this is useful, if not please get in touch and I'll send some more content your way.

Thanks,

Ben

I learnt a LOT about how I can automate my testing. My only concern is that with almost no slides and currently no video to refer back to I'll forget most of what I saw. Some of the comments above IMO are overly critical, the talk was detailed and Ben did well to get over what he did (given the complexity involved).

I was hesitant to go to this talk as I wasn't sure I'd come away with anything useful. I was wrong. Well delivered and good content. I'l be sure to put more effort into my naming conventions going forward.