Build your first Symfony 2 Application

Stefan did a great job of walking us through the key steps in installing, configuring and beginning to build a Symfony application. This was my first exposure to the nuts and bolts of Symfony, I found myself impressed at the level of configuration and customization available in architecting an application. This fact was also well presented by Stefan. Thank you for an enjoyable afternoon.

That was very ambitious presentation explaining and live coding something of this complexity. Well done! Very detailed, good selection fundamental topics and even going around to help the attendees. Good balance between live coding, code screenshots, and having the viewers do the work themselves. Speed is just about right. Helpful walkthrough of basic directory and file structure. Good to have some files created manually instead of completely CLI to get understanding of what the console actually does and how to take over when needed.

Improvements:
(1) commands that we are expected to enter should not be covered up so quickly by a different program. Try to have CLI on a side, not behind, the IDE or browser. Difficult to quickly type the commands while trying to take in the information.

(2) prior to the tutorial post minimum system requriements that the viewers are expected to have. Tutorial next door earlier did not has as good content but had loads of time before the presentation to get the testing dev. environment ready before the presented went into guiding. Too much time was wasted going around fixing "basic" things such as php executable in path or pdo extension not loaded etc.
(3) (maybe, probably overkill for a simple demo but personally helps me understand better) use breakpoints to show how the request travels through the codebase and what the internal state of the object looks like.