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

Very informative talk. Lots of useful and mind-opening information in a very good pace and beautiful slides.

wtf double submit

>>kaboom<< <-- my mind

probably the least *practical* of the talks I've attended, and certainly the most *academic*. The topics in this talk sparked interest in some concepts that I'll be reading up on when I get home and have time for some book learnin'.

Took some concepts I'm only familiar with from advanced JavaScript, and presented them in a PHP context - incl. pure functions, closures, anonymous functions, currying, map reduce. Showed how they are used in real practical applications, e.g. memoization.

A highly engaging speaker, too - enthusiastic presentation. Despite the advanced level of the concepts being discoursed, I had no problem following along all the examples and grasping all the material. A++

I don't usually give out 5's, but this one gets a 5

Good overview of mocking with PHPUnit. Lots of practical example. I like that you repeated the questions from the audience.

good combination of theory and practical application/code samples... and FINALLY someone explained the difference between mocks, dummies, stubs, and spies, which most testing people describe as "basically the same thing". now i've just gotta get my test on!

There were some really neat bits of information in this talk. Presentation style could use a little work, but that'll come with practice. Thanks for the presentation. :)

Lightning intro to Scrum. Wish I could spend a couple of weeks at Juice shadowing Jack and learning how they scale. =)

The story was good, BUT he never stopped to define what SOA is. Nor did he point out how the old version of the application was not service oriented, and by comparison how the new design was service oriented.

Very active, and engaging. For a talk at the end of the conference to keep the level of attention the attendees had is difficult and Larry did it nicely. Speaker was nicely loud, easy to understand, and was very well prepared for this talk. Nice job Larry!