Laracon NYC
15 - 16 May 2014 at Scholastic Event Center

Loved the practical examples given in the talk, would definitely consider them when I make my own business or an agency. With so many open source technologies used every day by so many developers/companies for profit, it would be a shame not to give back.

Enjoyed the talk and the practical solutions given for a particular set of problems. Looking forward for the slides and more insight on the topics covered in the presentation.

Very cool overview of some of the services that I could use for my PHP applications. Also, loved the faces :)

I almost skipped this talk, and yet by the end it had me (and the person next to me!) in tears. Jeff Way's assessment that it's "TED-quality" is spot on. One tiny thing to add to Greg's presentation: Laravel is largely about Developer Happiness, and by extension developer *wellness* - so really this talk was directly related to the conference topic. 6 thumbs up!

Lucky for me Patrick Noonan @devopat wrote out my exact feelings about this talk. I think it was little overly ambitious for the timeframe available. Chris did a good job tackling the topic, and he clearly presented a case for keeping application layers separate, but maybe get a longer time slot or pare down the information included. Btw, I kept thinking of The Octagon, a Chuck Norris B-grade movie from when I was a kid, which popularized ninja. Seems like a possible humorous tie-in.

Having read Code Bright I was a little worried this would be quite basic. But far from it, this talk was filled with exactly the kind of stuff I like to see at a conference. A new approach to code organization, new concepts directly relevant to my professional work, and a guy with an interesting accent. That snarling doge/red panda photoshop was shocking. :)

I love how excited Taylor clearly was about this project, and how he occasionally would ask in this understated way "What do you guys think? Is this cool?" Once we started to grok what the whole thing is, I was blown away, especially by Forge. Taylor has a great stage presence, and is quiet enthusiasm is infectious.

Kayla did a great job of highlighting one of the elephants in the room - the extreme gender disparity. Out of 250 or so developers in the room, I heard a count of 7 of them were women. It's an industry problem and it's education problem, but those of in the industry already can start by paying attention to articulate, intelligent developers like Kayla.

Ian is a guy who walks his talk, and then some. This talk was more editorial than lesson, but that's a good thing. And I was truly inspired by the level of support that Userscape has given to Laravel and open source software. That was true before Ian's talk, but even more so after the talk. I hope to get our company to take up his call to action of devoting developer time to Laravel and other FOSS projects.

Shawn really nailed it with this talk. He turned me the concept of "commands" in a way that I don't think would come across in a book or blog post. I was also kinda blown away with the level of professionalism he shows - which was only enhanced by his humble qualifiers. I'm really looking forward to watching it again when the conference video comes out.