Lone Star PHP 2017
20 - 22 Apr 2017 at Addison Conference Center

bob m. is a ruthless card shark and Sentry is cool

Thanks for the inspiration, don't change anything! (except maybe some code comments :-P)

Thank you for explaining the misnomers in EXPLAIN.

*drool*

I don't feel as bad about my api now.

Great work, Thank you.

Good work! Sorry to hear the project was replaced.
It would be great if you could draw example from multiple project to show different approaches to each 'phase' of the refactoring or the 'Bootstrap' process.

I have very little experience with regex, so I was looking forward to attending Brett's talk. It was fun, informative, and got me excited to dive deeper and learn more.

I wasn't entirely sure what to expect going into this talk, but wanted to hear what Ben had to say about learning and using other tools and languages. He gave examples from his experience where other languages were useful to complete projects and gave pros and cons for incorporating other languages in projects. His live demo didn't start off great but he was able to pull it off and get the node demo working. I actually really liked seeing how he worked through a problem and resolved it because that is exactly one thing to figure out when using other languages.

It would have been nice to see perhaps a comparison of other common languages and their strengths and weaknesses and when using them could be advantageous over php and javascript. That could extend out to a simple feature and how that may be implemented in a few different languages. Perhaps extending out into various databases like postgresql, mongo, and others would have been good too. Also the swearing was a little too much for a professional talk for me. I noticed there were quite a few slides that weren't covered so perhaps a change in the pace or the ordering to be able to cover all the highlights and points needed.

Overall a good talk that I'd recommend giving again at user groups and conferences to help developers expand their skillset and branch out into other languages. Good talk!

Jessica was well prepared, gave great examples, and hit on a topic useful for every developer. Her talk was very well prepared, she moved on when she saw the code was hard to read, and was helpful answering questions after her talk. Well done!