Lone Star PHP 2017
20 - 22 Apr 2017
at Addison Conference Center
Talk comments
Nice overview of the basics of REST, with practical tips for how to structure your endpoints and responses. I appreciated Ben's slide about the various methods for implementing rate limiting, as well as the recommended resources provided at the end. Good talk!
Very straightforward with clear readable slides including example commands and code. Easy to take and apply to your own app.
Ben gave good technical details on good and bad things when working with APIs. He covered the basics and built up from there, ensuring the audience understood what was covered. The pace was a little too fast, which led to the talk ending a bit early, but that gave time for asking questions and discussions at the tables about the talk. Good talk Ben!
Solid overview of the different types of the established standards developers can use to structure their HTML markup so it can be more easily understood by machines. To improve this presentation, consider giving more emphasis on why choosing one particular standard over another matters and compare/contrast the pros and cons of each. In addition to the main takeaway (Data structures are all about providing context to our content), think about including a call-to-action so your audiences can leave with a clear idea of what they should do and why they should care about making data structures a part of their workflow.
Overall, great job for a first-time talk!
Although I would have liked more audience engagement, I felt Heather's talk was informative and gave great examples that I, as a software engineer, could relate to. She gave good details, had a good pace, and highlighted pros and cons of each communication medium. Overall it was a great talk that I would recommend attending to improve how one communicates with others, especially when working on a technical team.
Emily did a good job walking through her experience with upgrading an existing application to include a better architecture. I liked the code examples that were included and the tools discussed.
Good summary/breakdown of basics of communication, well designed slides, easy-going presentation. Helped me kind of recall some basic stuff that I often tend to forget or overlook in a conversation. Good talk for any technical person that has to communicate with non-technical people on a frequent basis.
Maybe even more exact examples of how we should and how we should not ask and respond to questions would be great. Like do and do not kind of examples of sentences.
The talk gave me some good overlook of the major steps and tools that were used in the showcased scenario to refactor a legacy app. I would be even happier if there was some before/after code examples. That'd be my only suggestion.
In roles as a senior engineer, a lead, and a manager, I've found a lot of tactics to improve communication. I felt like this session had a lot of promise but the content of this talk was remedial and unengaging and the presentation style was dry.
@Heather: For a session on communication, I expected something a lot more prepared, polished and engaging.
I interface with clients all the time on web projects. This talk exposed me for relying too much on emails! (text communication). I got three things from the talk that I can put into practice immediately for stretching myself in better communication with clients. Thank you!