PHPNW12
5 - 7 Oct 2012 at Mecure Manchester Piccadilly

This was a really confident and polished talk by someone who is clearly very knowledgeable and passionate about his subject. It was very interesting, but was let down by a lack of real world examples.

For someone who hasn't had time to dig into 5.4 much myself this was a valuable source of information. I think I now know that the built in webserver is not for production! The only bad point for me was that code samples were too small to be seen properly from the back, which was mostly the fault of the projector contrast.

This was a great mix of inspirational talk and humour with a lot of common sense thrown in. A really good keynote topic.

This was an excellent tutorial that gave me a lot more confidence to dive into ZF2. Overall I think Rob and Evan did a great job. The one area that I did struggle with was the drop into exercise 2, and I think this could have benefited from more attention to the bootstrapping sequence and the timing of events. Thank you guys, this was a superb start to the weekend.

I'd echo Adam's comment in that it seemed like a basic tutorial and didn't really expand on the standard docs. As an introduction to Twig it works, but as a Symfony2 dev I probably picked the wrong talk.

I really liked the talk. Thijs is a great speaker!

First up, the good bits...
* The slides looked great - decent font with the right amount of content, it's surprising how many speakers struggle with this.
* Good advice on automating tasks, especially the process of gradually moving to auto for scary tasks.
* Was good to see you weren't afraid to introduce many different techs into one stack - too many people are fixated on PHP.
* Generally interesting and well presented talk.

The not so good bits...
* As mentioned in previous comments, you definitely needed a mic, although I'm not sure if this was a technical issue or a choice you made due to the size of the room? Initially we could hear clearly but your voice tailed off once you weren't concentrating on being heard.
* "Things I've learned" must've popped up about a dozen times. I realize this was probably an intentional style choice but it felt unnecessary. This could just be me being picky though :)
* Need to work on the timing a bit as you had to skip the logging part of your talk.

BTW, there's a typo on slide 27 "if you all have is a hammer..." should be "if all you have is a hammer".

Great finish to a great weekend.

Great intro to PHPDocumentor, but didn't really cover anything I didn't already know. I think it's an important topic, but felt I didn't get much new knowledge from the session. That said, the talk was well presented & engaging.

I found this talk a little bit too much to take in. Perhaps because of my lack of understanding of the subject, but that was part of my decision to attend this talk.

Also, felt that the audience participation was a little bit forced. Perhaps asking who knows about a subject, rather than who doesn't would get a better response, as people don't want to be the 1st to admit they don't know something.