Lone Star PHP 2016
7 - 9 Apr 2016 at Addison Conference Center

I've worked with UX designers and other developers. This presentation, coming from a fellow developer, was good. We should care about the interfaces we build, and should not design the UX at the same time that we code.

A lot of this talk could be summed up with: Don't be forced into providing an estimate for a spec you don't understand. This point is crucial for relatively accurate estimates. I appreciated the examples and the resource list.

The emphasis on choosing when to uncouple the code and when not to was great. The examples that were provided were very simple and we needed some more discussion on how to scale this in practice.

Lots of material in a short time slot. Kind of rushed but a good high-level discussion around both types of databases.

The tools were useful. I wish there had been some commands to help recover from the 'mistakes' that were shown in the demo.

Well presented the material provided more theory than I was expecting going in.

Fast paced, good tips and energetic speaker. Got the day off to a good start.

This was a very useful introduction to the evolution of HTTP2. As someone who has not spent any time reading about SPDY or HTTP2 up to this point, I think it has given me the necessary information to start using the new features now.

Code exercise was useful as it progressed from static website to a roll your own simple framework. The only reason why I did not give it five stars is that the break after the first hour to help troubleshoot VM issues was about 15 minutes too long which could have been used towards the last two sections of the presentation that were somewhat rushed. While it was a noble goal to have attendees follow along on their own laptops, it wasn't necessary, speaking as someone who just followed along with the presenter.

I loved the concept, and was very amused by the slides (How could I not like the Wordpress Admin recreated in HyperCard?). While I understood the talk, I don't think the points were made as clearly as they could have been. Several of the people I spoke with afterward had tuned out the talk because they couldn't get a fix on what was being said.