PHPBenelux Conference 2014
24 - 25 Jan 2014 at Hotel Ter Elst

The talk was clearly for beginners and it was definitely great for people who are just starting with Unit Testing. You were a bit short on time at the end which was unfortunate for the Q&A. Overall great talk as always :)

Once again a top notch talk. I always enjoy listening to your talks. They're well paced, easy to understand and have a lot of humour in them which makes them great to keep up.

Also, the way you went over each step of choosing a framework was great. The slides for this will be a great reference to anyone who is deciding on choosing a framework.

While I agree with Koen that the talk could have focused more on explaining the basics of Vagrant I definitely think this was a good talk. Well explained and even though you had a slight accent I could clearly understand everything you said.

Also I've noticed some talks today were pretty rushed. This definitely wasn't, it was well paced so it was easy to keep up.

As I said, the basics were more or less covered. Perhaps the next time you could highlight more features and advantages that Vagrant brings. Also, the overview of the survey results was a nice thing to see, mostly because I followed the survey online but you might want to swap that out next time so you can spend more time on Vagrant itself (perhaps a live demo)?

So there's definitely no need to rate this as a 1 star review. It was a good talk that covered the basics and gave a nice overview of the provisioners and their pro's and cons. Thank you for a great talk! :)

I liked the talk, you brought it in an entertaining way, which made it nice to listen to.
Could have used a bit more teaching stuff.

Really good structure, furthered my knowledge with really good real world examples.

Readability of the slides was indeed the major problem with this talk. This was partly due to the design of the slides themselves (too much and too small text), but also due to the bad projector setup and lighting in the room. A second screen was installed towards the back of the room, but due to the fact it was directly underneath a ceiling lamp, as well as a badly functioning or adjusted projector, it was almost completely useless (the screen in the front of the room was still more readable for those in the back!). Otherwise the talk was informative for OO focused developers, challenging accepted practices.

I really enjoyed this talk which almost entirely consisted of live coding. It is a great introduction on PHPUnit test driven development. Definitely recommended for those new to unit testing seeking for a practical introduction on the essentials and how to get started. If you already know/use PHPUnit, this is probably not for you.

Good tutorial for those not yet familiar with, or actively using, design patterns. As an introduction, Brandon also gives a clear introduction of the SOLID design principles. Brandon explains all this in a concise and clear manner, while pointing out trade-offs one sometimes has to make between SOLID principles and design patterns best practices.

The talk was very interesting, with a lot of details that you normally would never look into.

I do not know if it has that much practial use, because, just like the speaker mentioned, normally performance problems are more on the DB/API level, and not on the PHP level.

If this talk would have come with one real life story of some optimization that made the difference with the help of those tools, the talk would have been perfect.

It still was very interesting on an intellectual level, just to know a little bit more what is going on "under the hood".
I really liked that insight and found it interesting.

Interesting talk, I would have liked a little bit more talk about handling external resources, like importfiles and databases, because that is most commonly the more complex part of unittesting.
But, the speaker said clearly in the beginning of the talk that it was meant for beginners, so I guess it was to be expected.

Would love a "Let’s Learn Testing 2 - The advanced talk", some day. ;)

After the talk I went to the speaker to ask him some questions (about DB resources) and he was very friendly and knowledgeable about the topic.

Now actually doing the unit testing... that might be a different story. :p