Cascadia PHP
19 - 21 Sep 2019 at University Place hotel

This talk really connected some dots for me about docker organization, and how to perform introspection into running instances/environments. Very excited to give Docker another try where it won't be so opaque to me. Thanks for a great talk!

Great introduction to different types of machine learning, how to apply them, and how to ensure that the data being trained against is properly prepared and analyzed. I especially liked the point about how city names shouldn't be mapped to "1, 2, 3, 4", because the ML algorithms would tend to think that the value was significant. Using columns containing 0/1 stood out for me as a solution that I wouldn't have thought of without a decent amount of research. I'm looking forward to JIT and other PHP tech that will enable this sort of tooling to be built up inside the PHP ecosystem (until then, I guess there's always cloud ML platforms ... :) ).

Excellent introduction to mentor/mentee concepts and how to steer the relationship toward success for both sides.

Really like Matt's open style of sharing, making his approachable by the audience which earned a 4 rating. Though the talk was good, I felt it was more of an intro, or who's who, versus focusing on how a terrible situation unfolded and how Matt rebounded. Based on the abstract I was anticipating hearing an emptional blow-by-blow of what happened, how it was remedied, and what the speaker has done since then. Since I know the speaker, I think his story is amazing. But it was not "really" shared with the audience, therefore the talk without Matt's awesome delivery was really a 3.

Certainly, the who's who was nice, but was not what the talk promised.

Really enjoyed Merline speaking. Great content, examples, and open sharing. I also liked the ideas shared on how to improve things and felt motivated to help make things better.

Turned out to be great discussion once things warmed up. Though I was disappointed the start was not better organized. As one of the panelists, we should have had a clearer idea of how to get things rolling.

Really like Jason's speaking style. Very informative content, and approachable how-to. I think the talk would benefit from more apples to apples comparison with Tailwind competitors versus marketing hype. The great example turned out to get to the same place as the competition, and on the surface "looked" the same. But for functionality, it is very appealing.

Great presentation! Eric clearly demonstrated our need to be aware of our users’ limitations concerning low-speed connections and older/less-powerful devices.

Incredibly well constructed introduction to automated testing in WordPress and building confidence in software/application quality.

Engaging and inspiring.