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

Although this was focused on beginners to PHP, I was able to get some useful information out of this. Very good presentation.

Second or third time I've seen this talk, but I still find that there are tons of great tidbits sprinkled throughout the talk. Cal is a great speaker with an engaging tone and friendly presence. He uses humor well to drive home points and change topics. If I had any recommendations it would be to break up the black-text-bullet-points-on-white-background monotony of the slides themselves. Add some color, maybe a couple pictures of that stuffed elephpant herd!

Although I have not done any API programming, I know at one point I will be. Although at this point your presentation was a little over my head, I was able to pick out quite a few very interesting points.

You are a very skilled developer and I have considered you a hero and innovator in the PHP industry. The be able to hear you speak was amazing.

I use drupal 7 almost exclusively at work, and learning that Drupal 8 improves on a lot of the drupal 7 downfalls was very settling. I will definitely be making the switch to drupal 8 as soon as it's production ready.

Thank you for an awesome presentation. I have always struggled with the benefits of OOP, and this presentation made it very clear.

Beth presents this (and other) material quite well, moving at a good pace and clearly identifying what she wants to cover and what is important for the attendee to take away. While I might not have been the target audience, I did get a lot out of the material and the discussion in the room. That said, I feel that she could have wrangled in some of the audience comments a little better, either in a moderation role or even just to move the talk along.

You were able to give me very useful tools that I will use from here on out for development, and I thank you for that. You can tell from your talk that you are very knowledgeable in the field and know what you are doing.

Very good presentation, I really enjoyed it. Very informative.

Thanks for the feedback anonymous (both of you)! Perhaps I need to do a better job at identifying the target audience in the abstract and what might be good to know beforehand.

To your confusion: you're right, coming from a classical inheritance model can cause confusion when one tries to draw parallels. Instead, I would recommend trying to ignore what you know about OOP in classical systems and instead try to learn prototypical inheritance with "fresh" eyes! In others words, don't try to understand that a "class" is in JavaScript, but rather, try to understand what a "prototype" is.

Excellent presentation.