2017 Madison PHP Monthly Meetings
11 Jan - 31 Dec 2017 at Madison College

Great talk Derek. I really like the similarities and application for the lessons you learned parenting and how it applies to project management.

I also liked some of the images you used. I would consider creating slides for competing images from what you learned parenting and an image to contrast it with for project management.

Great talk!

I really enjoyed the talk a lot. I thought it was an interesting topic and you presented the psychological perspective pretty well! You were right when you said it contained a lot of material and you did go through it pretty fast, but in a pretty cohesive manner.

A couple things that I thought could use a little improvement. As Clinton mentioned, you were fidgeting with the water bottle a little bit and that was a little distracting at times and pulled my attention from focusing on the fast paced facts at the beginning. It appeared that you knew you had a lot to say and you were afraid to stop talking (maybe for risk of running out of time?) and take that drink of water you really wanted and catch your breath a little bit. At points you were trying to get so much information out in one breath that it seemed like you were gasping for a breath after a sentence. It seemed that you built in some really good points to do that too (i.e. When you asked if people knew what Dunning-Kruger effect was, feel free to ask someone who raises their hand to give a short definition while you catch your breath and take a drink of water in those 10 seconds. Or when you had short comics on the screen, feel free to let the audience read it on their own and take a drink while they are distracted reading it anyways, then just summarize why you chose it.) These natural break points can help you continue to present your information and have the breath to do so with a little less pressure to keep feeding us more data the entire time.

The other thing I was going to comment on was the transition from Imposter Syndrome to minorities in the tech industry. I can totally see how these two topics are related, but I did feel that I couldn't quite derive that from the presentation. How you presented the material almost felt like two separate presentations to me. Maybe finding ways to tie this topic in more directly at the end or possibly sprinkling in some of these cases as you go through could be a more natural association? I did feel that this was an important thing to have in this presentation, because it is very important and can play a big role in a large amount of people's lives.

Thank you for coming and giving this talk! I didn't know that imposter syndrome was a thing prior to this talk and I'm glad that I have an awareness and a greater understanding now. Good luck at That Conference!

Really enjoyed this talk! Great slides and interesting information about psychology, imposter syndrome, and promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Great job!

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Interesting subject matter
Good use of comics / visuals / slide design
Good championing of being an ally
Made it personal

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Lots of narrative during the Hello slide - maybe condense this some.
Watch fidgeting with water bottle - find something fixed to keep hands on.
Comics - "search for answer" comic, some panels too small to actually read.
Misspelling of "advocacy" on section slide

This meeting answered my questions about Laravel's Homestead plus some added bonus info. A nicely paced presentation from Andrew, punctuated with intermittent questions made this a pleasant and informative meetup. Being able to review the presentation online is quite helpful & appreciated!

been using homestead for awhile. good talk, learned some interesting stuff about per site installations.

not sure how long the talk was supposed to last, but would have liked a little deeper dive into everything it can do, like Apache sites, and auto SSL sites.

Thanks for giving the talk!

I liked how you pointed out ways to keep code modular (e.g. keeping html out of the code) - You could highlight this idea some more in order to further strengthen your argument that one can stay in PHP on the backend while still taking advantage of the benefits of JavaScript on the front end. I also liked using JS as a quick prototyping tool - having a working prototype saved in browser storage (also a cool tip!) that you could should would be great. Good job!

Good use of examples to highlight some differences between JavaScript and PHP and discussion of how the two languages can compliment each other.

I really enjoyed this talk. I had no idea about Swagger but now think it will be very useful for documenting and troubleshooting our APIs.

Great understanding of material, level of information and handling and encouraging questions.
Nice original slides to help frame the context and references familiar to the audience. Also memorable for visual learners :)