PHPBenelux User Group Meeting - Feb '11
22 Feb 2011 at PHPPro

Jeroen's long awaited conference talk. Unfortunately I increased the pressure on him by hyping it. At the start Jeroen was insanely nervous, but later on noticed that he was doing a great job.

Let's be honest: the content was awesome, this is the in depth technical stuff I love to see at conferences. I have a compatible talk, so I was really curious to see this one.

My advice: stay cool and calm, Jeroen, you are an expert and the more you bring this talk, the more you will realize this yourself.

This is conference material (that's why we selected it for PHPBNL11) and needs to be submitted in as much CFP's as possible.

GOOD JOB !

I learned a lot from this talk, especially the first half. Too bad you didn't have enough time to finish everything up. Perhaps summarize a bit more for next time. That being said, I really enjoyed the talk, thanks!

Good talk: comprehensive, calm, confident.

If you have more time for a talk, I would suggest to give more technical background. Now we know what components were used, but more insight in the way they're operating would be nice.

Koen is a nice and honest guy: he immediately admitted that he was nervous and that gave him some credit in my book.

Koen wil need to gain some experience talking in public, but in essence has what it takes: he has the vocal volume, he makes the occasional joke and (most importantly) has something interesting to say.

I'd say: keep practicing, I'm very curious how he will evolve as a speaker and a PHP professional.

I like the way Toon presents his talks: calm but confident.

Although 30 minutes was a bit short, he still managed to deliver a great talk that made me think about implementing Drupal in an enterprise environment.

I can imagine the people in the back of the room had problems with the font size. Does ctlr/scroll work when you are attached to a projector? That could have been a solution. And, maybe if you cut out some of the easy stuff there would have been more room for other cool things like 0mq or more about daemontools/supervisor etc. Well, maybe you just needed two hours ;-). But overall, it was a great talk. I enjoyed it!

Lots of "euh" in the beginning ;-) but after a few slides it was a lot better. Nice one!

Very good summary of what is possible and how it's done.

I was in the front row so I didn't have a problem with hearing and seeing everything. :-) It was a very interesting talk.

Very informative. I had forking/daemonizing experience, but this talk explained the fine-grained details I kept missing. A lot of information about forking etc. is scattered over the internet, this is a very nice summary. The speaker showed knowledge in his area and was calm & informative throughout the talk. /me like!