Symfony Live London 2012
13 - 14 Sep 2012 at The Brewery

I found this talk useful, especially as Symfony 2.1 now uses Composer. A revelation to me (well, I might have known but had since forgot) is that @stable releases are, by default, installed from zipballs but @dev releases need the whole git repo to be downloaded... With Symfony 2.1.1 hitting 'stable' I'll clear out my vendors and reinstall! Also, I had never taken the time to look at the available commands in Composer - who knew there was 'composer search', for instance? Hope you're feeling better, Jordi.

A great talk by a great speaker. Nicely covered the upsides, downsides and technical details without ever getting bogged down by intricacies. You seem to have a knack for explaining what we need/want to know without any superfluous fluff; I think the pacing was perfect.

Best talk of the day.

A good introduction to the bundle, but I would've liked a couple of "and here's a really cool thing you can do" examples.

Informative, useful and engagingly presented; great talk.

I appreciated how the keynote started off with an appeal to help Kris Wallsmith. As much as we enjoy social events or Sensio Connect badges, that's truly a greater example of community where it matters most.

I think an essential component of Fabien's keynotes, for better or worse, is something new to unveil. The release cycle discussion was highly relevant, especially on the heals of 2.1 and leading into Drupal 8's feature freeze later this year.

Taking question was an excellent idea and I hope to see that again at future conferences (I assume we have Lorna or the Sensio UK guys to thank for that).

Early parts of the presentation were a bit remedial given Dries' morning keynote, but I appreciated the technical half of the presentation, which outlined how Drupal was applying Symfony2 components and discussed the release timeline. In particular, the timing notes would complement Fabien's later talk on his RFC for Symfony2 release cycles.

Slides were very well-composed and clear, as was Mike's delivery. That said, I felt the subject matter would have been better suited for a general PHP conference. I imagine that the audience at Symfony Live either has no need of the components alone (as framework users) or would otherwise already consider the components for stand-alone development needs.

I spent the first half of the presentation wondering when PHPSpec2 would show up, but was happily surprised when Konstantin and Marcello introduced it during the course of the demo. For a live demo, things worked out quite well, and it did a great job conveying the purpose of both tools.

Konstantin's Vim bindings were the star of the show, as it'd have been impossible to cover so much code (from scratch!) in so little time. As excellent as the content was, I think the speakers do need to work on coordination. There were several points where Marcello was pushing forward and/or Konstantin couldn't get a word in.

Great keynote to start off the day. Dries told an engaging story and certainly knows how to work a podium.

Another good talk from Fabien, as anyone 'involved' in the community knows, he clearly understands how to make things work from this point of view.
Transparency and discussion between everyone are really key and he gets that!