Laracon NYC
15 - 16 May 2014 at Scholastic Event Center

Great talk, super informative, good style, much wow. Loved the Commodore Vic-20 style headings.

So yeah, it was a little bit AWS infomercial, but it was a good one! Jeremy has a solid style and good pacing. The only strike against it is that he managed to make an extremely simple "upload funny faces" app seem extremely complex by pulling as many AWS products as possible. Still, it was extremely informative.

Great talk and a great way to start the conference. Thanks!

Blew my mind. I like that. Thanks Igor!

Great talk, and excellent as an intro to the conference. That said, it seemed kind of unfocused. It seemed like Jeffrey, who is so concise and organized in his videos, wasn't quite sure what to say (!) so he scattershot a bunch of cool stuff in Laravel. I definitely learned about some new things from that scattershot, but I was wishing he would have just chosen 3 or so of those cool things and focused on those.

I came into the conference really looking forward to this one and overall I thought it was a really valuable talk! It's a tough, dry, abstract subject and I thought you did a good job navigating all that and getting the message across. I know that whenever I'm trying to tell someone why interfaces are good (for example) I find myself rambling and soon their eyes glaze.

So the main takeaway for me was the idea of keeping the app organization clear: Core Domain => Application => Framework => "Outside", and using interfaces to delineate the boundaries between those three things. It was a bit unclear how the CommandBus stuff ties into this directly, other than being one of potentially many methods for achieving that separation.

I'd still like to know what is meant by "hexagonal." Not joking here - there were pictures of hexagons but I just don't get why that particular shape is invoked.

Room for improvement? It's an abstract subject, so maybe it would be good to see more real-world, concrete examples / case studies. It's also a pretty dry subject, so more jokes would help bring people along! That's about it.

Thanks for the talk!

A very great inspirational talk.

I learned that I know a lone wolf. And I also learned I'm not the best team player. Much to think about.

Great delivery on an important issue that doesn't get enough attention.