php|tek 11
24 - 27 May 2011 at Sheraton Gateway Suites O’Hare

Well done indirectly telling me I'm doing it wrong!

Learned quite a bit in this one! Buckets? Who knew?

Learn't a lot about Design Patterns. Information presented was also good. We could just scrape the tip of the iceberg in 2.5 hrs, if this presentation is followed by another which cover may be a few hand picked patterns in further detail would be more helpful and informative.

Both the books recommended by Jason (Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software & Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture), seems to be worth reading for any programmer aiming towards a Designing or Architectural position

Great presentation! Informative with some refreshing entertainment. The examples used were easy to follow while illustrating the concept in simple terms. The list of resources was much appreciated.

Lots of food for thought. Time spent on device differences, native vs mobile web application and wurfl was especially appreciated. The demos were good.

It's obvious you know a lot about CouchDB and have hacked with it a lot, but I don't think you were able to communicate that in a way that was accessible to most of the audience. At the start of the talk you asked if anyone was using a variation of NoSQL databases in their apps. Of the 30-some people in the room, only a few raised their hands.

The latter part of the talk was you showing us stuff with Futon2, which seemed cool, but I don't think many of us know exactly what was going on half the time. Maybe it was just me, but it was hard to follow.

The code samples you displayed about using PHP to insert and get images was useful, and I would have liked to have seen more examples of code usage, or additional use cases for when CouchDB is a good choice.

Overall, the first part of the talk about the history of NoSQL and the differences between all the different types of NoSQL databases had good structure. But once we got to the second half of installing CouchDB, resty and Sag, it turned into more steam of consciousness and a demo of Futon2, which didn't really involve the audience doing anything with what we just installed.

This was a good talk. It moved pretty quickly through lots of stuff, but in general the information was applicable to most applications. I would have liked more details on some of the ways hardware can be optimized for MySQL, but that may have been too detailed or specific for a general audience.

I would recommend this talk to others looking to speed up MySQL.

She's very engaging and the information was great. enjoyed the code samples we were asked to write.

Great presentation/speaking, content was on-target and up to date.

i would have enjoyed a chance to write some code based on the different design patterns discussed, but otherwise it was a very good source of information.