PHPNW 2013
4 - 6 Oct 2013 at Manchester Conference Centre

Derick has a great personality and it comes across in his talks.
To have somebody talk at length, about a tool that most of us use day to day, we are very lucky to get the creator of the tool himself.

I cannot think of any negative points from his talk.
I do have 2 full pages of handwritten notes to digest now :)

Very well presented important subject matter.
There may come a time when I need to use Symfony components within legacy applications, but what I learned the most was how Symfony itself uses its components.
As I use Symfony day to day, this proved to of great value.

Good night: lots of hacking, discussing, and socialising done - and for free, the food was good

The music volume did however creep up too much - which made it hard to have a proper discussion at times (which when you're working on a project, you sometimes need to do)

Aaaaaaaaaaagh. I know nothing!

At least that's what I thought while we were marking our answers.

Great presenter who knows what she is talking about.
I came away from the talk understanding the importance of knowing what version of PHP your applications will run on.

Some of the colours used in the slides didn't show up too well on the screen.
A little difficult to hear from the back at times due to the 'excited' crowd of delegates.

I enjoyed this talk and think it was well delivered but agree with some of the other comments that the end became to focused on new relic. That said its a great tool so I can understand the enthusiasm. I took some ideas away from the talk but I think the abstract could just be slightly updated to mention what technologies you are going to discuss e.g. xdebug, xhprof and new relic which helps when deciding on what talks to attended.

Interesting concept and nicely presented.
Yes is was a talk to sell a service, but it wasn't a hard sell with dry facts.
Demoed using the joind.in source code, giving developers a good sense of what can be acheived in the real world.

A few down sides, one of which being confined to the version of PHP that they provide.
Thus a developer has to keep their product constantly up to date with the platform.
Maybe this should be done anyway, but not all companies have the resources and budget to keep pace with it.

Seamless and amazingly well presented information to 2 rooms of delegates at the same time.

One thing that was a little less engaging was Ivo pacing back and forth with the camera following him closely. I'd suggest either a little less movement or the camera pulled back a bit so that there was less swaying.
Also it would have been good to looked more at the audience.

Otherwise very good information that was presented in a way that had the audience wanting to keep listening.

Speaking style and the way the information was presented was really good. The message I took away was using the right tool for the job but thats not what I expected from the title of the talk. It ran a bit short so my feeling is that there could maybe some more in depth bits on cilex and silex. Maybe some code examples or in depth architecture diagram. Sounded like an interesting project and very different use case for PHP.

A really good post lunch talk.

It would have been better if Juliette did not have any important text in the bottom 3rd of the screen as with many heads in front of you, you could not see the bottom of the slides to take the quiz effectively. It might be an idea to have the titles at the bottom of the screen and the question start at the very top.

Other than the mentioned text colour issues that other people have mentioned, this talk was highly entertaining and fun to watch.

The slides link doesn't link to the slides. Does anyone know where they are?

I thought this was my first time seeing this talk, but when I saw the slides I knew it wasn't. Nevertheless it is still very good to see again. You are a natural speaking. Made us laugh and it was really like you were just talking to us in the bar or something. Great to have you at CodeConnexx :)