Madison PHP Conference 2014
13 Sep 2014 at Alliant Energy Center

This was a unique take on a topic I've previously seen presented in other more technical albeit less-innovative ways. Ben's approach to debugging is akin to meditation before tackling a problem: find inner peace, have humility about the problem lying within your own code, and using your intuition to resolve the issue. He finished with talking about some of the various debugging tools available to PHP developers, which can easily be researched on one's own time. I appreciated hear Ben's insights and perspectives, and would recommend this talk to others in the future.

Great real world application!

I enjoyed your talk. It resonated with me.

If you need more slides I think this could have fit in a few spots. :)

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I like this kind of talk very much. No hard code. No step-by-step instructions. Just lots to think about, and some useful references.

Great talk. Definitely need to slow down when every one else is going crazy over issues.

Really appreciate the debugger info.

The talk was OK, but i think it failed at expectation management. It falls kind of in the middle between an introduction to symfony (not introducing it enough to understand as somebody not familiar with it at all) and an advanced talk on RAD specifically (missing concrete examples of how to do things, maybe an example application to follow along and see how the RAD plays out there, rather than naming the main bundles that people familiar with symfony should already know)

I enjoyed the topic.

This talk was excellent. Ben did a great job helping us understand the debugging mindset. Along the way he walked us through a couple of his own debugging "war stories" to put these guidelines into context. It was a great combination of ideas and guiding principles, along with some practical tools and techniques at the end. If you have an opportunity to see this talk, I highly recommend it.

Good talk, lots of Symfony info. Listening to this immediately after lunch made it tough to stay alert, even though the data was good.

Good description of various modules and how they are used, but it a higher overview of how Symfony2 works would be helpful. The talk assumed the participant was familiar with Symfony.