Longhorn PHP Conference 2018
19 - 21 Apr 2018 at Commons Learning Center

The slides with their delightful self-deprecating humor ensure complete credibility for the message. It's a brilliant concept to begin with, using the adventure of a lifetime to introduce and teach team-building skills.

I hope you keep the "Easter egg" in the slide deck. It was perfect, being in the section about accountability (i.e., mistakes) immediately after reefing and handing the sails.

I don't think Cal got to see [Amanda blushes] on the caption screen. Uncle Cal is all about encouraging us to be a community, and sure enough, that lesson snuck in as being the whole point of the talk. Well played.

Rebekah's was easily the most delightful presentation I experienced this week. She came at known material from a distinctly different direction. This encourages deeper thinking about what it is we do. Her anecdotes and personal history added to the experience and made the talk more relatable.

As I use events more and more, I appreciated Emily's coherent demonstration of the whole picture. Her telling of a story was great and definitely added to enjoyment of the session.

This talk was useful to me personally. Michael described choices I make myself (when and what to test and not test), but Michael explains WHY one choice is better than another.

I've never used Postman and was looking for an introduction. This was a great introduction, providing examples of moving beyond the basics when that time comes.

I appreciated having Stefany tell her own story, explain her own experience. I agree with the other comments - there is room for expansion, explaining more strategies for dealing with situations that don't go well.

I strongly suspect we'll be seeing the need for ethics in our profession in 2018. Samantha, by being something of a computing historian, ably describes where we've come from, showing what we can become.

Seeing tools in use was exactly what I needed. There are a number of things I've been doing the hard way that I can now simplify and streamline. In particular, the recently-upgraded PhpStorm client, and capturing responses to create Swagger definitions. I sure wish I'd come to Tim's Thursday tutorial.

Jessica's talk was precisely as advertised - that's a good thing which doesn't always happen! I don't use docker (yet) and wanted some orientation as to what I'd need to do. I got that, and some reasons why. Thank you.