PHPNW 2013
4 - 6 Oct 2013 at Manchester Conference Centre

Perfect choice of making this awesome talk the closing keynote!

This was both interesting and controversial talk at the same time. I loved the part where the challenge gets to the level where you need to limit your caching because it's too slow. And of course everyone can relate to the part "less code runs faster".
What I missed though, was a defense of the chosen solution in comparison to alternatives (e.g. Varnish cache the page for 1 second - that serves 1499 requests off the cache).
Also, while cache was mostly disregarded, the use of NoSQL in the middle was in fact a data cache. Then if you are caching data, why render the view on every request? Why not cache the rendered view?
In summary, this gave a lot of topics for discussion afterwards. But I think this may be somewhat irrelevant or even distracting for people who are not aiming for 10ms responses.

Oh, it only proved me right in expecting this to be the best talk of the conf. Well done!

Hangover slot handled perfectly! The talk was interesting, informative and realistic, got to learn a few new ideas about user stories.
I must admit from the title I was expecting more of the "most people do this part wrong and it should be done like this instead" kind of talk, but what I got did not disappoint either.

Great evening, loved the food and the people. A bit disappointed with MCC for running out of beers at the bar rather quickly.

This was a great extension to what I already knew about xdebug. Now I know so much more!

Mind-blowing bunch of ideas which seem unconventional here in Europe. The whole cultural difference in mindset was something to take home and rethink.
I think some parts may have been lost in translation, I wasn't always able to follow the thought process. And slides with code examples had much content but only small fraction of it was explained (what it is supposed to do and why).

Great talk, good highlights of why now is the good time to have a look at Drupal 8 for the experienced PHP developers and likely make it a CMS of choice.

Good talk, gave new insights/ideas even on a topic which isn't all that new. I loved how the disadvantages were fairly stressed and the cart example was a perfect illustration for the whole idea.

Superb - the practical example made it so much less of a promo and so much more of real-life situation analysis + coverage of key differences from ordinary LAMP stacks