Lone Star PHP Conference
29 - 30 Jun 2012 at Addison Conference Center

This is a good talk. I wish it had been recorded because there was information that I missed and would love to go back and listen to it.

It was really clear and well put together, but Chris failed to keep my attention. It seemed really monotonic. He defiantly knows what he is talking about, but I found myself drifting off to other things and only paying a whole lot of attention when he would bring up a main point.

The code examples and content were great.

I really enjoyed Elizabeth's talk. This subject is a great contribution to the conference.

Was a great poker game.
Great booze.
Great friend building!

The talk had great content, and great suggestions, but Geoffrey is very soft spoken and requires everyone to be absolutly quiet to hear him. On that same note, his voice is very monotone, making the talk to seem devoid of excitement or anything that will draw people in besides the content itself. Aside from the occasional funny picture or quote, the presentation was really dry.

Due to the quality of the content I would call this an average talk.

The first half of the talk, the focus on SOLID (or rather, SOILD), was really well put together and delivered. Explanations were clear and all questions were answered in an understandable way. The second half of the presentation, focusing on DI, was less clear. Chris seems less confident about this half, and it really brought down the energy and engagement of the presentation, which up to that point had been very fun and energetic. Aside from that, I really enjoyed this talk, and learned a lot of useful principles and practices.

A very good presentation. The coverage of each principle was very clear, and his explanation of LSP was the best I've heard. I could have use a bit more on Dependency injection, but as he stated that could be an entire presentation on its' own. Please choose a brighter font for the code samples.

Good examples.

Would recommend that you change the background color of your slides from black to white or a lighter color. Basically, looking for a more visually-appealing contrast between the code examples trying to read (which were also multi-colored) and the background color they were presented on.

It left me with LOADS of questions, which was the way the presentation was designed. It didn't cover the topics I expected, but was still very insightful. A Logical mind is needed, and a "SH*T Load of Math" may be recommended to thoroughly enjoy the talk. Well presented though and very SNAZY slides!

I think this talk just made me a much better programmer. I was already aware of a few of these principles already, but now they're a lot more "solid".

As a side note, the syntax-highlighted code didn't work well on the dark background, *at all*. It was barely readable even for me, sitting up front, with glasses.