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

Andrew was a great speaker and I came away from this eager to put some work into Capistrano. He answered all the questions pretty well and he was eager to help me with any questions I had outside of the session.

I enjoyed this session very much. Speaker knew the content extremely well and I was pleased to come away learning some new content.

Really fun! Was so nice to hang out and talk with people after such a great conference.

This was a lot of fun! I liked that quite a few people could be involved on stage. I wish there had been a bit more time devoted to explaining the answers. A lot of people didn't know a few of the podcasts, mentioned, for example, and it would be neat to be able to use the answer moment as a time to teach the rest of the crowd about the answer (not a lot, just something really quick) so they are learning and not just feeling lost with the answers. Might also be fun that if no one on stage knows the answers to ask the audience to yell out answers to keep everyone a engaged.

May have just been my angle, but the tools slide was a bit blurry. Perhaps using larger versions of the logo files. I agree that the pacing seemed different at the end of the talk. I think this was because the beginning was very passionate story-telling whereas the end seemed more like a tools tutorial. In a keynote setting, I think the latter could be skipped as it's not necessary for the inspirational message of the former. All in all, though, I loved hearing this talk and getting a glimpse into the lifeblood of a solidly successful product. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks building a business takes years of hard work, not just a magical idea.

Loved the wide variety of board games available to play. Omni's brews were all fantastic!

So much fun, and really great to watch the faces behind the voices behind the podcast. Also, loved hearing so many people involved in the discussion.

This was super-timely for me as we are just about to get started integration testing, so knowing that PhantomJS works well with Behat was helpful. It was difficult to follow the presentation because there weren't a lot of slides of code or screenshots—I think those would have made it easier for me to understand. Also, maybe a bit more explanation of how these tools were hooked together: what's built-in, what's custom-written, etc. Like, is the image-comparison feature something the presenter set up herself? How can I do the same? etc.

Very helpful info. We open-source a lot of small packages, and although I'm not sure we'll follow all of these principles for all of them (sorry, Phil!) it's great to have an easy place to go to see what would be the best we could do to support them. Our team really wants to get into open-sourcing.

Love it. For the first time, I can understand what functional programming means at a high level, and why some people are so excited about it. I love it from a theoretical standpoint, but I think it may be too much of a conceptual leap for our team right now. But even so, the principle of separating the "what" from the "how" by passing in an anonymous function is something I'm going to see if we can integrate into our practices.