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

Perhaps I was not quite the target audience for this talk. I found the pace pretty quickly outdistanced my foundation of JS. As a result, at least I was introduced to concepts that may help improve my JSing, but I found myself struggling to understand the before and after picture of object literal vs ... what ... function as class?

This talk left me with another set of tools for use in my class writing. Interfaces and traits just might be my new friends. Tied in nicely with a later talk on dependency.

Strongly recommend revisiting visibility on the code samples.

Was expecting this to be essentially basic, was not surprised. Instructors were ready to help, and information presented was indeed foundational as it says on the tin. Despite the introductory nature of the content, I learned another set of tools for validation and came away with action items on PDO. A one liner for enabling error display would be meaningful.

Pro: hands on do it yourself approach, breadth of information, instructors' involvement
Con: venue could benefit from better wifi, or bring prepped USB keys, and "PHP will whine at you"

I really did love this presentation and it is filled with the exact information you'd need to get into giving conference talks but i did have one complaint, but not about the presenter or the content of the presentation - it's some people in the audience.

Beth told people they'd be allowed to ask questions as she presents, which i have no problem with. The issue is that this eventually turned into people interjecting every 30 seconds with comments like "well i do this.." and "you should go about this like that". The people in the audience started becoming the presenters.

This format may very well work for some people, but i was quite annoyed with these interjectors when i really wanted to listen to Beth's content and not to random people in in audience.

My 2 cents is that Beth might want to tell people to hold their questions until the end. But i know personally i am less nervous when the audience is actively engaged in the talk.

This was absolutely fantastic. I believe this was my favorite so far. It was great motivation to stay on improving my skills. Yitzchok is a pleasure to listen to and had excellent slides. Amazing presentation - 6 stars.

Wow, I really enjoyed aspects of this talk. I do like the idea of using WP as a dependency. I think the biggest thing was it seemed to apply mostly to either large WP sites or large(r) companies developing many WP sites. It seemed like all of the details would take awhile to initially set up and would be unneeded overhead for many of the small(er) websites running WP.

However, clearly the ideas in it were some great food for thought and I would love to consider a different approach for developing a WP site.

The presentation was excellent with good slides and speaking. If your company does much WP, I would recommend listening and considering the ideas presented.

This was a talk about a non-profit school program. It was the worst session that I attended of the two days that I have been here (I have either enjoyed or loved the rest as they all were technical and largely practical). More surprisingly, though, there were quite a number of things that were implied throughout the session that I, at the very least, don't agree with: specifically ideologies and viewpoints on issues that are quite, or perhaps entirely, political.

There was probably up to 10 minutes of information (but more like 5) that actually reflected the session description. The rest was about the non-profit school program.

There was no actionable content that was applicable to me as a developer.

Great talk!

This was an amazing talk. Thanks Rabbi!

Great talk!