True North PHP 2013
7 - 9 Nov 2013 at Microsoft HQ

Great intro. Totally nailed the presentation and had excellent flow. Would love to have an advanced session, too.

Great overview of the history of PHP. It is interesting to see the subtle ways in which it changed that are hard to see if you're only a user of the language as opposed to actually writing the language. Also, you handled the heckling very well. :)

Nice practical overview of the new changes. All in all, great talk!

This was a great overview of how the PHP community has changed over the years. A lot of fun. :)

Source control with Git is a critical skill, and you knew it. It was clear from the beginning that you possessed a firm grasp of the topic and were able to field questions from pensive audience members. Furthermore, the session was polished, which is doubtless because of all of your experience. I learned some new, useful techniques which I plan on applying in the future.

Great, engaging talk.

Lot of focus on design patterns and other high-level concepts used by Doctrine and not much in the way of real world practical examples. Slides had a lot of text, few conceptually applicable visuals, and very little code. Speaker sometimes seemed disoriented when transitioning between slides and tended to stammer and ramble while speaking, but otherwise came across as relatively knowledgeable about the subject matter.

Larry is such an inspiring speaker, and the message he needed to get across came across really well. Excellent examples and situation to illustrate a problem, then giving the solution that already exists for that problem. What a fantastic talk. This can easily be a keynote. Hell, this *should be* a keynote.

Very entertaining talk

Highly engaging talk with great insights and updates on how to bring the entire PHP community together better, faster, and doing less work in the progress.

Great presentation Larry!