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

The subject was well covered, and Nick clearly knew what he was talking about. Slides could have been better, and indeed shorter intro would also be better

Bowling + free beer = awesome fun

Sandwiches were much better than I'm used to at a conference :-)

Great talk, explaining Paul's great FW benchmarking work. He's definitely a great speaker, both able to convey interesting content and keep the audience attention at high levels thanks to proper changes of pace. Also interesting results and references. As w/ Tech Debt talk, here also, I've found analogies w/ other disciplines very appropriate. I definitely recommend you attend this talk, if you have a chance to!

Great social. Fun @ bowling alleys, also tnx to github for the free drinks!

Great food (quality & quantity), great service. Labels w/ sandwich content (IE for vegetarians, ppl w/ allergies..) wouldn't have hurt. Of course, waiters were always there for answers, so no problems.

Really informative and excellently explained tutorial on QA in software as a general. Alot of tools I didn't know of or only heard of are now in installed and incorporated in my evaluations of our products.

Too bad we didn't get real in-depth info on any of the subjects. Given the short timeframe it might be wiser to have chosen a couple of chapters and go through them in detail.

I also liked how you two were constantly asking for feedback from the audience, but sometime that turned out the wrong way. We got hinted at some interesting chapters (like documentation) but never touched them due to time shortage. Maybe next time just don't ask what we want you to talk about and stick to a plan that can succeed. People don't want choices is something i've heard several times throughout the conference, that goes for a tutorial audience too as far as i'm concerned :)

I would like to do the workshop over as a full day workshop one day!

Interesting talk. To say the least. I think the analogy between technical debt and money loaning was just superb. Most likely the best way to let people know what happens when lot of bad code is continuously being written and never refactored.

I agree w/ all those saying that most (if not all) of the tips given in this talk are likely to be already known to those who regularly attend conferences and/or those who've been developing for a while. Nevertheless, I think it's been an enjoyable keynote, from which I'm sure first time conference attenders got lot of useful info. And also, for everyone else, an entertaining refreshment never hurts. Good chemistry between speakers, appropriate keynote.

Great last talk ! Emotions, chocolate chip cookies en communities. Loved it.