Madison PHP Conference 2014
13 Sep 2014 at Alliant Energy Center

Ed is the bravest man I know for getting up there and telling us not how people who suffer mental illness feel, but how he, as someone who suffers, feels. This makes the talk hit home in a way that having a mental health professional speak never will.

I am quite fortunate with where I work, but the statistics Ed presents tell a story of an industry -- scratch that, culture! -- that stigmatizes mental health problems. I'm glad that Ed, OSMI, and Prompt are shining a light on this situation in our industry, and hope that talks like this will make a positive impact.

I really, really enjoyed this talk - it was a perfect mix of technical and anecdotal exposition, and as a result, very engaging. Please, however, drop the clown image.... I'm still having nightmares.... ;-)

Nice whirlwind overview of functional programming techniques. I did get a little distracted by errors in code samples (e.g., functions defined that were never used; imported variables that were never used; importing the wrong variable; etc.); some examples were also too long, which made listening and trying to visually interpret simultaneous difficult. Finally, I would have loved to have seen some usage of generators in some of the examples, as I think functional + generators is a natural combination in PHP.

Really enjoyed this take on the psychology of debugging. My only critique is that I'd not do the section on tools in the future -- it was kind of rushed, and distracted from what I felt was the primary focus: habits of a seasoned developer.

Good job with good presentation. Good way of explaining of reframing the problem.

Super demo with real examples!

Perfect job! Very interesting presentation with real examples.

Very poor presentation. Slides quality are low. It was impossible to read them. It was like the author was reading info from book. So the author couldn't explain me how to develop rapid application with Symfony2. I think it means fail.

Excellent presentation