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

Pulled pork, beef brisket, chicken, and mac-n-cheese, what isn't there to love?

BBQ, BBQ, a nice demo of Twilio, & BBQ.

Eli walked through past job experiences where he first learned about and then pushed for best practices. His stories were entertaining and insightful in what went well and what didn't. He addressed a difficult topic since best practices are pushed and generally always encouraged. He gave good justification for specific scenarios where some best practices may need to come later, and I thought the always should do list (source control, backups, and security) was an accurate list to never skip.

My regex-fu is very weak. However, after seeing this talk, I feel much better equipped to read and write it.

Excellent combination of teaching and humor.

Adam did a great job giving an introduction to Jenkins and showing how it works. He gave good examples and even succeeded in doing live demos on using Jenkins to deploy and rollback. Good presentation.

Despite having worked with regexes for over a decade now, I was still able to learn several new things that would be very beneficial to me in future. I would love to see Brett make a workshop on that topic and dive into the advanced stuff from the end of the talk. I would also appreciate some unicode related examples in such a workshop.

Really liked the insight into the event loop model. I also liked that he started with relating that the talk would have two parts, and then proceeded to transition between them and tie them together well. Speaking style is a bit understated, but still one of the better talks I've seen here at LSP this year.

Matt did a great job getting to the heart of testing, being descriptive and telling the stories behind the code. He had great examples and really did an awesome job explaining the examples since they were in JS and Ruby.

An interesting look into the Javascript event loop. Tons of great information and some good tips to avoid gotchas within the language. 10/10 will javascript more.

Grump and Funky definitely changed the world. And that hoodie is dope.