ZendCon 2014
27 - 30 Oct 2014 at Santa Clara, CA Convention Center

Very knowledgeable about the subject matter, clear and easy to understand speech. The presentation was quite well prepared, although it appears it was the first time being presented so several small mistakes.

The 3 hour time frame was to short for the amount of material, although this was not down to the speaker but rather the time possible for speaking.

Way too much information in way to little time, however it was very interesting and without a doubt important information when it comes to refactoring legacy code.

Very good session. Speaker was very knowledgeable, spoke well (so that I could hear, not too fast, all that stuff). Good interaction from audience was encouraged.

We knew we wanted to modernize our legacy app, but now we have a game plan. Thanks Paul!

-1 for going over time, but understandable considering the amount of content to cover.

This was a great introduction to MongoDB and Silex. I have renewed inspiration to play around with MongoDB, especially as it relates to GEO data.

The setup process took quite a while for some which was distracting, might be worth providing something like vagrant a VM or docker containers in the future.

Overall, great tutorial - sad it's over.

Spot check, commit, push, notify QA.

This talk was quite the whirlwind as it was covering a ton of material in a short amount time. Mr. Jones does a great job of summarizing his "Modernizing Legacy Applications In PHP" book in the time provided as well as answering and asking questions throughout the talk, which is a very difficult thing to do while staying on topic of the talk.

I felt that showing the code example throughout the talk also helped me personally to see the steps he recommends to moving forward and honestly feel that instead of this monolithic task of modernizing a legacy system, we as a team are able to take bite sized tasks and complete them as we are working on portions of the application.

Thanks for the talk!

Great talk, taking the test later and lot of helpful topics covered. Will be great when the study guide is released.

A very good talk going through practical means by which one can incrementally improve a legacy application. It was also a valiant effort to cover all the information in his book, though three hours was a little too short to go through every aspect. Still, it was definitely a LOT of good information from a dynamic speaker.

Excellent talk. Lots of invaluable information.

The only critique I'd make is to either consolidate some of the information, or consider splitting into a two part tutorial. Because there was so much to cover, a lot of useful information had to be skipped. I'd definitely consider adding the code samples to the slide deck. A lot of time is wasted switching between the slide deck and the code.

Overall though, excellent, excellent tutorial.

One of Alan's classic talks, updated with new information. Timely, useful, with pros and cons, caveats, and practical advice. Alan is very good about engaging the audience and encouraging questions and discussion, which everyone benefits from. Good management of time, in spite of the amount of information presented.