SymfonyDay 2011
20 - 21 Oct 2011 at KOMED

When presentation slides consist mainly of captioned photos, it really puts on the onus on the speaker to express the content - this can be disastrous or, as in this case, magnificent.

Stefan and Christian had great harmony in juggling the topics and I think this talk rivaled Fabien's keynote in capturing the audience's attention.

Kudo's to both speakers for inadvertently starting the #shitload meme.

Echoing the comments above: the presentation started out very clear and easy-to-follow, but began to fall apart with each full code example slide. An hour-long presentation would probably been more than enough time to give an overview of any bundle for Symfony2, but actually covering the integration of a bundle is something better done in a longer, interactive workshop session.

For future re-use of the slides, I would consider splitting them into a condensed presentation version and a longer set for training/workshop use. As the bundle progresses, I think you should definitely pursue doing a training session at an upcoming Symfony conference.

I've had the pleasure of taking a look at some previous training slides coming out of Sensio, but those were for the framework in general. I was very interested to see what Hugo would come up with for the Console component.

I thought the example application was a great choice and thoroughly covered the ins and outs of the component (e.g. input, output, container usage). Unit and functional testing examples were much appreciated.

Based on the audience questions, I think the best practice of how a console command should mimic a controller could have been touched upon in more detail. I think plenty of people weren't aware that controllers should also be lightweight methods that depend on services to do the heavy lifting.

One thing I think could have been included was handling of STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR streams. Granted, I don't think they'd have fit naturally with the hangman example, but the topics can be useful for actual projects.

Great slides on the significance of Symfony2 components (esp. for those that missed his framework-building workshop the day before). I suppose we could debate if it was *entirely* spontaneous, but kudos to git-pushing the Timeline component live during the keynote - great way to avoid the a "when will that be available" question during Q&A :)

I'm very much looking forward to the upcoming community initiatives. All in all, this was an ideal keynote to wrap up the event.

Very strong presentation. Slides were very slick and presented very well, with the content being bang on too. Talk flowed well, with plenty of well-detailed examples. Very good!

Even with some Silex apps under my belt, presentation kept my interest. I appreciated the focus given to explaining Pimple and closures in general, as those are vital to understanding Silex itself.

Entertaining, inspiring and informative. A key note as it is supossed to be. Some good announcements too.

Could be a little less hard on those who asked questions

Clear structure and good examples.

Hangman in console ftw! Good talk, learned a lot of new things.

The bundle looks amazing and it's clear that Thomas knows what he's talking about.
But this talk was hard to follow, to much information and unclear examples. English speaking skills could be improved too.