PHPBenelux Pre-DPC12 meeting
31 May 2012 at Ibuildings Utrecht

A very entertaining talk which gives a great introduction to Redis, adding a bit more images to the slides with just a term (if at all possible) would spice it up even more.
But Ross is definitely ready for the big conferencing work!

I found it a bit dry, many theoretical elements. Also I don't know if you actually convinced your audience to not use regular expressions for HTML parsing, but maybe that shouldn't be the goal of your talk.

Some suggestions:
* A more concrete example why using the techniques you describe would help. And might answer the question: why is it better?
* Most developers like numbers (performance even perhaps) perhaps throwing in a slide comparing numbers would illustrate the positive effect of the tools you described.
* I think showing implementations of existing tools, such as Doctrine or Twig would help
* The code was hard to understand, perhaps use pseudo-code or diagrams rather then actual code.

Also the screen you had to work with was way too small, something you can't help obviously, but didn't help clarifying code/demo.

I do find the topic quite interesting, but it's not a very sexy topic. If you, however, spice-it-up a bit. You can make this work. You certainly seem to know enough about it!

As expected, very good for what you were trying to accomplish with your talk.

Interesting topic but the presentation could use a stronger and clearer goal. A few adjustments to the critical
Path and especially the demos would make it a great talk. A bit more practice and relaxation and the speaker can nail it much better. Good job! Keep practicing.

Very good talk, good pace,well timed transitions and a very clear goal. Clear and simple presentation of the subject in a very straight path. Very inspiring, made me want to open my laptop and do something with redis.

Amazing talk. Very informative, funny, captivating. I'm actually already starting to use Redis in a large project I'm working on but this talk greatly helped ratify the decision to use it!