Five days of conferencing have passed in what felt like only a few hours. I had great fun, met a lot of cool people and old friends, learned a few cool things and had an amazing time.

I haven’t really taken part in the jsday which preceded the PHPDay conference but I spoke to a lot of js people which was cool.

So what do I think?

Well apart from all the interesting chats I went to a few sessions.

Most memorable have been two talks by David Zülke who is what in Germany we call a “Rampensau” (look it up ). He remined me about best practices in designing RESTful interfaces and introduced me to Hadoop. Thijs Feryn provided a nice introduction to Varnish and Stephan Hochdörfer presented the ugly but efficient ways how to test tightly coupled legacy code and finally I learned a lot in an amazingly detailed talk from Lorenzo Alberton about NoSQL and when to choose which implementation.

You can read my live blogging with those sessions included here.

• Almost live blogging – PHPDay 2011 in Verona – day 1
• Almost live blogging – PHPDay 2011 in Verona – day 2
• Almost live blogging – PHPDay 2011 in Verona – day 3

Apart from those and the other great talks I was giving a talk myself in which I tried to put Symfony2 into a business perspective to allow managers to decide on whether to use it or not but also to allow developers to find the right arguments to support their case.

I think it went rather well and as far as I was told has been well received by a quite big audience. If I ever do this session again (which I can only hope) I will definitely change a few things but all in all I am content with the result which you can see here.

• How your business can benefit from Symfony2 / PHPDay 2011 in Verona

A great thanks from my side to all organizers, sponsors, fellow speakers and audience! You were amazing!

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