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

Straight to the point with clear take-aways. Code examples made the talk a breeze to follow along.

I enjoyed Margaret's talk. There was a lot of material covered, but fortunately she's provided the slides for us to be able to go back and replicate what she demoed post-conference.

Concise, clear and uh, rapid. A big part of how we devs learn is by simply going through the experience, and Margaret's talk compressed what would otherwise be a dull multiple-hours process into an entertainingly humorous 40 minutes. It would have been nice to have time for questions inline with the talk (I had a couple during the talk, but Margaret apparently did not notice my hand up; maybe others did too?) instead of saving all questions for the end. Also, if this is "CD with Laravel" it might be worthwhile to address Forge and Envoyer, which are quite commonly used in the Land of Laravel.

Excellent talk. The energy exuded from the speaker kept the audience, including myself, engaged. Who doesn't like free books being tossed at them? Heh

In your second example, could it also be his way of saying hello, why assume the negative. Why assume he is totally gone. You assume to know exactly how life works.
Good points.

You don't need to be deploying an enterprise size application to use AWS and this presentation made that patently obvious. If you've never used AWS before this might help remove some of the mystery.

Material was presented well and in a manner that made it easy to follow. The slide deck in both of Michael's presentations were professional and uncluttered which was nice.

Difficult topic to cover in under an hour but I personally still got a lot out of the session, nuggets of insight for most of the different AWS services mentioned and the speaker clearly knew his stuff. Thanks!

This was a pretty linear presentation of how to install and configure a Jenkins solution on a Digital Ocean droplet. Margaret knew her subject matter well enough to answer most of the questions asked, she was also quick, clear, concise, and had a nice sense of humor.

Great overview, easy to follow.