Spring Symfony2 training in Slovenia

In our previous blog post we announced the upcoming Spring Symfony2 trainings. First in this series happened April 3 - 5 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The event was organized by D-Labs, an agile software development company from Ljubljana. They welcomed us to their very cool office. We are impressed with the  atmosphere and very friendly people. They even had a dog named Ruby in the office :). It just felt like home.

They provided an awesome conference room for each group of 9 developers, most of them working for D-Labs. The trainees were very interested in the subject and asked a ton of smart questions. We were amazed by the skill level of the trainees, they all had a lot of PHP knowledge at their fingertips and most of them already used Symfony2 in real life projects. It was just amazing how they always wanted to know more and experiment with the real project we were building during the training. On Last day David jumped in to help everyone master Symfony forms and my group was doing advanced Doctrine training.

During these three days we did not limit ourselves to just Symfony and Doctrine. We explained and used many third party components and bundles, played with TDD, and one of the biggest surprises for me was their interest in the Sylius project!

The end of each day was reserved for chillin' in a local bar. Everyone was so great but a special thanks goes out to Mitja and Jure who took us to the Bled lake the day after the training.

All in all, our visit to Slovenia was a success, we had a great time and the trainees were happy. Mitja wasn't shy to share his impressions:

David and Saša from KNP were fantastic! They managed to cover all the important basics of Symfony2 while giving numerous tips and tricks along the way, then in the advanced part they got under the hood and showed us how the complex parts of the framework work. We were especially impressed with the way they manage to dig into the Symfony2 core to find answers to our more advanced questions.

I would like to thank the guys from D-Labs for their hospitality, Slovenia rocks! :)