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

Very nice talk, very moving moment also when the speaker talked about her experience with misogyny as she started in the industry, left me feeling a little bit sad on my own gender. ;)

Also shows you that "when I doubt, just add more kittens" always works.

To be honest, I did not really like this talk.
Why? I had no Vagrant experience before this, I even had not heard about this product until today, I had to google it (yay free wifi!).
So that is my background.

I went to the talk with the expectation that I would get to explained what Vagrant is and what it solves, but I did not get any of those answers.

Very quickly the talk went to talk about the "provisioners", of which I did not even understand WHY you needed those. Are you required to pick one, or are their optional? What in fact does Vagrant do, and what does their Provisioner do?

Then I got a bunch of statistics about the different provisioners, I assume the speaker was very proud of these numbers because she did the research herself on it, for which big thumbs up.
However, because I do not know those tools yet, and I was not even convinced to use them, I just did not see the relevance of them.
I hope it is not to just run "apt-get update" every time, because that is what I picked up from it.

I would have prefered more emphasis on the basic Vagrant myself, maybe show an actual implementation of it. Also explain why it is better than just a plain VMware tool.
I can create a snapshot of a VMware installation, and share that between my co-workers, what is the benefit of Vagrant here?

I think if you rebranded the talk more clearly that is not an introduction to Vagrant, but rather an "state of the vagrant-market", it would have been better. It did not give enough information for a beginner.

Anyway, if the speaker still wants to convince me of Vagrant, feel free to do that tomorrow. ;)

I found this the most interesting talk of the day. Are the slides available somewhere?

Talk was good I think, though personally I'd have appreciated something a bit more advanced. Can't subtract points for that however. Very important topic as well - essential knowledge and skills to have for any dev.

Lots of food for thought. Think the presentation suffered quite a bit due to technical difficulties and a crappy room. Speaker did make the mistake of apologizing a lot, which makes it hard to not feel like there has to be something wrong with the talk.

Great talk about a great subject. I knew exactly where Benjamin was going to, so for me it was quite easy to follow. Too bad there was too little time to complete the strategy pattern, so I give you four stars instead of five.

Great introduction to codeception. You convinced us to implement it in our company.

Very interesting and well explained. Too bad there wasn't more time!

Entertaining talk, maybe hard to follow for people new to design patterns.