php|tek '12
22 - 25 May 2012 at Sheraton Gateway Suites O’Hare

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Good info, great pacing and delivery by the speaker. Definitely a good primer for taking a site mobile. One of the best talks at the conference.

Good info, great pacing and delivery by the speaker. Definitely a good primer for taking a site mobile. One of the best talks at the conference.

Michelangelo is a magnet for the PHP Community, awesome coverage of getting involved, and how everyone benefits! thank you Michelangelo!

I learned quite a bit in this presentation, very easy to understand and well delivered by both presenters. Awesome job guys!

Cal is an awesome speaker, it was early and yet he made it very entertaining and motivating. Awesome job cal!

It was great to meet Ryan at this conference, and he is a very energetic speaker. He covered a lot of material in a short time, but I think he could pull it off with the examples available from github to follow along.

The use of bad examples and bad rules were pretty funny and engaging. The slides were pretty humorous and I felt it kept me engaged in the talk really well.

The only one thing I can think of to point out. There were a few times where I did get confused for a little bit when Ryan would say something and I wasn't sure if he was being serious or joking about a bad practices. Within a few minutes of showing an example, it was clear whether he was joking or not. My suggestion would be to make sure each character only said bad or good things, and consider Ryan a character. So if ever making a "bad rule" statement Ryan could say "Mario thinks..." or "Peach says..." just so its always clear if a statement is a sarcastic bad rule, or is a good rule. If that makes sense. :P

Once again, thats me being very picky, it was a really great talk, my only suggestion on improving an already great talk. :)

I'm a big fan of show and then explain talks, and Ed does them really well. He was able to show a working example, open up his IDE and Developer tools and showed how the tools work under the hood. For me, personally, this type of demonstration really helps me "get" newer topics better.

Perhaps maybe the presentation abstract could have stated more clearly that a previous intro to Backbone.js would have been useful, but that is the only fault I really could find. I didn't really notice anyone struggling to keep up with the presentation, so maybe people new to Backbone.js would be fine.

Paul is a very clear, energetic speaker, and covered his topic really well. I was able to follow along with his thought process and picked up quite a few examples on how to have better decoupled packages.

But the real winner is that at the end, I did have a more in-depth question, and at the hack-a-thon Paul spent a solid 45 minutes with me walking through some of the more advanced methods of Dependency Injection and when to use things like Factories and Builders. I'd give this talk and presenter a 6 if I could. Talk about going the extra mile. :)

I think Phar is (going to be) an increasingly popular format. Talk was good overall, great information and code examples, perhaps needs focus on the structure to make it flow better + a full working example of how to build one (live demo?)

I admit I got to this presentation late, so I missed likely was the most difficult thing I've had in the past which is setting up puppet correctly on my master server as well as the slaves on all my machines. But the parts I did catch were very informative and pretty good. I was surprised people skipped the live demo and chose the other option, but it was all good none the less. :)

Perhaps in the future this could be a 3 hour tutorial, since Puppet is one of those technologies that really can use some hands on learning, and would be easy to spend 3 hours covering how to use it.