True North PHP 2015
5 - 7 Nov 2015 at Microsoft Canada

Great talk. Lots of useful information and knowledgeable speaker.

I was fortunate to see this talk one of the first times you gave it at Tek, this is the first time I've seen it since then; awesome talk. You're a strong, courageous, compassionate guy and that came through in this talk. I'll never forget the encouragement and help that you gave me a year ago. Honored to know you and call you a friend.

A great refresher to have someone else support domain design, entity vs. DTO, repository usage etc. Sometimes feel discourage promoting these through thicket of "its over kill" and "why bother if we have associative arrays". Consequently, begin to lose my way and get "infected" with bad practices. In this talk, Marco "re-calibrated" my brain a bit, and I learned some new techniques, such as deleting practices, ID generation, and use of query functions. Good balance between theoretical examples and code snippets. I wonder if some UML diagrams could have helped to further illustrate how doctrine fits within the architecture, but not strictly necessary.

As a manager of both men and women, I found this topic very informative and helpful. The speaker made me reflect on how I approached certain scenarios and gave some helpful perspective/tips.

Very interesting presentation.

Please define acronyms.

This talk would have benefitted from having roughly half the slides, and more detail. Perhaps "4 or 5 things frequently done incorrectly while using Doctrine." In addition the speed of delivery was a bit fast, prompting some questions from attendees.

I would like to have seen a perspective other than "DDD is the only way that Doctrine makes sense" perspective. It does work in other development paradigms.

Good information, but the talk could use some polish

Very quick speaker, used a lot of acronyms that required explanation. Got the feeling of 'my way is the only way'