PHPNW12
5 - 7 Oct 2012 at Mecure Manchester Piccadilly

A good introduction to the different types of noSQL database and I agree with the well presented and clear categorisation. It would have been nice to see some real-world deployment suggestions for categories other than the Graph type or some examples of how each of the types were queried to give more of a feel for how you interact with them - but there's a great follow-on talk for next year!

Rob's dry wit and obvious deep knowledge of ZF made for a great talk full of useful information presented clearly. Being able to explain and present the thinking behind a design decision really helps you to understand new features or redesigned old ones and this is where Rob's knowledge is invaluable and the talk is elevated beyond a set of slides or a wiki page on the subject. 9am on Sunday made this talk less well attended than it deserved and scheduling it opposite a talk by the BBC was also harsh but the resulting more intimate atmosphere was a pleasant change from other talks :)

Rowan is one of my fav. speakers from previous years and I attended this talk because it was by him, not because I had any great desire to learn about AWS. The quirky slide style was great fun (only let down by being in the worst of the three rooms) and I was pleasantly surprised to find myself actually interested in AWS through Rowan's superb presentation skills and clear instruction.

I'm not a Drupal person but I've never understood the whole 'Hater' thing. Drupal is one way of doing things and Marcus did a great job of reminding everyone of this and showing Drupal in a more fair light. Very well presented and I'd be happy to attend other talks by him.

A nice little update on Behat and your new work which I'll certainly be taking a look at. Well presented even in the more informal environment and a great little aside from the main talks.

I enjoyed much of this talk and I see others have already commented on minor issues such as the code example colours. I'd say the first two thirds of the talk went well but the last third dragged a little because you were repeating the same format of Array vs SPL for each different data type which prob. wasn't really needed. I'd have liked to see some real-world examples of where the data structures can be applied in code (you did a great job explaining the types of structures using real-world examples) and the benefits other than optimisation that you can gain through using them correctly (code readability? generalisation of a problem by thinking about it differently? etc.). A lot of work seems to have gone into the SPL but most developers maybe don't see how they can gain real benefits from it and I don't believe your talk tackled that issue.

Sorry Lorna but I felt the talk didn't really have any bite and could easily have been covered in 20 mins. I was hoping for more info and examples of Traits (practical use cases etc.) and maybe some details on the optimisations that have been made (it turns out from other talks that Objects are now often faster than Arrays for value storage) but was quite disappointed.

A superb keynote that I found inspiring, informative and interesting. Ade did a great job of starting the conference off with just the right mix of stimulating ideas and anecdotes and I'd love to hear him talk again in future.

I'll confess to being very disappointed with this talk. It felt like significant parts were taken up by slides of twitter reactions to React, community response, and how none of it mattered, rather than showing us all the cool things that can be done with this great project.

Some examples or even live demos of the tech in action would have been brilliant. I really wanted to see it in action. Unfortunately what we had was a brief display of code for a ChatRoulette-style app, and an example of how to pipe text from one file to another.

I think the project could have great potential, but as a first impression of it, I've been pushed away.

A cracking way to kick off the day - Ade was filled with energy and used that to get us buzzing as well. Provided a nice mix of inspiration and introspection that made you want to write even better. As a few people said at the time, candidate for best keynote ever from PHPNW!