Lone Star PHP 2015
16 - 18 Apr 2015 at Addison Conference Center

Just a fantastic talk. This may have been the highlight of the conference for me. Not heavy on technical information but really drives home the importance of community and mentor/apprentice relationship as a part of our evolution as developers. For me it really helped reinforce the idea that teaching/helping other devs is a benefit for both parties.

I hope youtube was watching.

Excellent job. Well delivered and did an excellent job of escalating a simple concept to show the utility of interfaces and traits.

At a high level this talk was ultra helpful. I was already familiar with code katas and had previously worked through a few simpler examples in the past. The concepts of time boxing while purposefully scrapping work after that time limit and freeing yourself from the constraints of business expectation (shipping code), allowing yourself to focus on the quality of your solution, were my biggest take aways. The only criticism I could offer would be that perhaps, for a training talk, the given kata was a bit difficult. The barrier of entry seemed high for those of us at a lower level of understanding. Regardless though, the concepts and purposes exposed are the real gems here. Well done.

Thanks, I'm going to join a user group and start making an online presence (blog/twitter) so I can start submitting my own talks.


and thanks for the t-shirts.

I felt too much time was spent on the alert levels.

Good presentation. I could have used a little more detail in some areas but time was limited so it's understandable.

Thank you!

So, I must repeat the concern for cursing that others have mentioned but I think this talk suffered much more from a lack of organization and preparation. When your talk goes less than half of the allotted time it speaks to preparation and lack of run-throughs/practice. That said, there was some good ideas and content buried inside.

Twitter handles or your names at the bottom of each slide would have been helpful.