PHPBenelux Conference 2012
27 - 28 Jan 2012 at Best Western Ter Elst

Great talk! Interesting points for advanced users, as well as a great starting point for beginners. The presentation is well structured, and Jeroen is a good, and certainly calm speaker, who is taking the time during the talk to answer small questions, without going into deep.

Make it a tutorial next year?

I think Derick is an excellent speaker and this was another fine talk. I haven't seen any examples that urged me to try it for replacing my existing solutions or future solutions on a short term, but I know it thanks to this presentation. Good job Derick!

Absolutely brilliant! Very very funny :)

"Embrace your PHP-ness". I swear it made me feel warm inside. :D

And what a great overview of new techniques. Shocking.

Superbe talk! A lot of interesting stuff and nice examples, given by a speaker that knows what he's talking about.

I think it is very useful to have talks about the way knowledge can be shared within an organisation and this presentation got me and my colleagues thinking for sure.

However we don't agree with the approach brought forward in this talk. The master-apprentice-pupil distinction seems artificial and not workable in practice, since knowledge is to very much distributed. A beginner may have some PHP 5.4 knowledge that a 10-year experienced developer may not yet have. It's not like everyone reads the same few books in the same order. In these days where a developer needs to know a little bit about everything there are hardly any 'masters' around.

In a conversation we had it was brought up that giving a newcomer the chance to experiment and fail, and to have him try new things that no-one has done before will give him a sense of pride and make him productive very quickly. This should go hand-in-hand with good documentation of the products that the company makes and some links to documentation of third-party tools that the company uses.

About the presentation: it needs to be improved a lot (not that I could do it better myself, mind you). Talk to others about presentation techniques. Add some funny slides in the beginning to warm the audience up a bit. Move around some more. Good luck!

Nice talk, good slides and personal facts.

However the speaker did not show a great deal of knowledge outside the experiences he got within his own company.

When asked what a remote working place would cost to an employer, I seemed to come as a surprise. It seemed obvious that it wouldn't cost an employer anything. "But I am working with a desktop computer at work." Reply: "Oh! Most people have laptops!" Yeah.

Though it was very cold, the social element made it all worth it.

Tnx orchestra!

Very well done! The chemistry between Tobias and Kore is great.

I had heard of the concepts that were handled before, but this talk give me a real feeling for their importance in test driven development. I found the examples very good.

Please try to create some simple examples for the other principles as well.

Awesome, fun way to end a great conference

Awesome. Tnx to enrise and microsoft