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

Nice talk to start the conference with. Although some of the points were a bit obvious, they were also a good reminder.
Lorna was nice to listen to and interacted nice with the audience, seemed more like she was telling a story.
Ivo was a little harder to follow, he seemed to be reading a bit more from his notes.

good workshop, especially considering the title was given!
It was to much to cover in 3 hours, but still I learned a lot and I can work from that to figure stuff out myself.
Interaction with the audience was good, this way more time was spend on what the audience wanted to hear most.

My apologies on the slides. They were designed for 800x600 but the projector only showed them at 640x480 so they were screwy. If I'd realized how bad they were, I would have done the - apparently minor - adjustment that would have corrected it.

You can get the slides here:
http://caseysoftware.com/blog/phpbenelux-2011-recap

@ijansch and anonymous, I'd love to know your specific criticisms and/or weaknesses to address them next time around. Thanks :)

Good session, nice to see the progress in the last ~year or so.

I've caught this talk a couple times and I *love* the fact that he emphasizes figuring out the relative difference between the systems and making his results reproducible. As much as benchmarking can be an art versus a science, he makes the science workable.

I didn't bowl.. I got fries instead, but they were awesome. :)

Interesting and informative but the transitions were pretty rough. A few more rehearsals would be a great improvement.

This is the second time I've caught this one and have enjoyed it both times. This time there was less audience participation this time around but Scott & Paul added good things.

I thought the session was well done and the topics covered were interesting and relevant.

I agree that it was *way* too much to cover in three hours but there was enough that someone wanting to learn more would have enough of the concepts, terms, and tools to research further.

I'd attend it again.

Rating my own talk is soo evil, so instead I'd like thank everyone for your feedback on the talk. The topic itself is a pretty broad one, and tough to give every tool it's just service without detracting from the overall message of matching tools and teams together. If I have the opportunity to do the talk again, I'll definitely put a bit more of a focus on the differentiating between the tools themselves.

That said, I'm glad so many of you were able to take something from the talk, even if it just spurned you to do more research on upgrading your toolset to enable greater productivity in your team.