PHPBenelux Conference 2013
25 - 26 Jan 2013 at Ter Elst

This talk felt less like an introduction and more like a case study of the building of Silex (and a side framework Yolo). Approaching the talk from that angle makes it clear that the talk was incredible.

Giving a live coding talk is always difficult, but Igor made it look easy. Awesome job!

Incredible talk that everyone who considers themselves a professional developer should hear...

Very nice to see more than just an introduction of Silex and Symfony Components. Going deeper into it is an excellent idea. Information was well presented. Oh, and killer name for a framework ;)

Nice overview of how the different Symfony components work together and how they can be used separately to create a simple framework.

It was a nice talk although I hoped Andrei would have gone into more details instead of the whole beginning being about what regex actually is. He thereby ended up not having enough time at the end and skipping through some detailed stuff. But that aside, a very educative talk. Thanks Andrei.

same feeling here, no structured talk, but still some stuff to think about

Andrei did a great job stepping through from simple to more complex. I appreciated knowing the why behind some of the suggestions (like why being greedy can be counterproductive). One suggestion would be to have more real-life examples of each topic (perhaps continuously build on one very complex one throughout the talk as well as having individual examples that only apply to the current topic). Another idea would be to offer to ideas for ways to remember things, like emphasizing that \b stands for boundary (you mentioned this, but making it more of a point may make it easier for people to remember), to help make this more readable to newcomers. Also, the grey on the slides was a little tough to read. All in all, an excellent talk, and I am very excited to learn more about regex.

Nice talk, made some good points. Some we all should know but neglect from time to time :p

Nice talk with some great examples. I finally understand what I'm doing! And realized there is still a lot to learn (or remember :))

The talk was missing the structure I hoped for. Kudo's for the live coding/configuring, but I didn't get the overview I would have liked.