PHPBenelux Conference 2011
28 - 30 Jan 2011 at Hotel Ter Elst, Antwerp

Talk comments

Richard Tuin at 22:05 on 30 Jan 2011

I have to agree the presentation was a bit messy, but it explained the Azure services quite well.
I'm all new to the cloud 'stuff' but i was surprised that Azure has a local development environment. That looks really promising!
Will definitely experiment with this in the future!

on Seeing PHP through a blue azure sky

Alwin Schoemaker at 22:01 on 30 Jan 2011

Nice talk about such a simple though powerful tool! I only use sed now and then to replace the database name in a > 7GB mysqldump, but I never knew about all the extra options (like line delimiting, peeing, etc.).

on Harness The Power Of Sed And Awk

Alwin Schoemaker at 21:58 on 30 Jan 2011

Good presentation about namespaces! Good explanation about how it works, some pitfalls and best practices. I liked it a lot!

on Mastering Namespaces

Richard Tuin at 21:51 on 30 Jan 2011

Excellent talk! Just the right balance between technical content and humour.
Very useful and inspiring content. This will definitely be of use in future projects!

on Designing HTTP Interfaces and RESTful Web Services

Richard Tuin at 21:45 on 30 Jan 2011

Overall, this talk gave a nice overview of why to use a SOA.
It would have been nice to see a specific problem solved with a "traditional" architecture versus a SOA one. I was hoping to see a comparison between the two.

on Why Service Oriented Architecture Is A Good Thing

Tom Van Looy at 21:35 on 30 Jan 2011

This talk brought me up to date in the mobile world. And very good speaker!

on PHP In A Mobile Ecosystem

Tom Van Looy at 21:32 on 30 Jan 2011

to make the code testable, you have to start refactoring. But to start refactoring you should have unit tests in the first place :-) Good point! And nice tricks to make code testable without changing it

on Testing Untestable Code

Richard Tuin at 21:32 on 30 Jan 2011

Great talk Rob! Like mentioned before it was nice to see real-world examples and use cases.
This gave me a good overview of how to automate deployment of projects that allow deployment process being automated.

on Stress-Free Deployment

Tobias Gies at 21:27 on 30 Jan 2011

Very interesting and engaging talk, lots of great ideas. Sadly, no real chocolate chip cookies were handed out. Elizabeth was kind enough to put the recipe on a slide tho :)

on Chocolate Chip Cookies and Open Source Communities

Richard Tuin at 21:23 on 30 Jan 2011

Very inspiring keynote!
Although i agree with comments above that some 'ways' were stating the obvious, it doesn't hurt at all to mention them for those who the way of approaching may not be obvious, or simply didn't think of it before.

It was an enjoyable keynote with nice bits of humour, with the result of what -in my opinion- a keynote's purpose is: emphasize the reason and topic of the conference, and to 'loosen up' the audience.

on 27 Ways To Be A Better Developer