Madison PHP Conference
16 Nov 2013 at Warner Park Community Recreation Center

I thought this was a great talk! I enjoyed it a great deal. Even though I was not able to give it all of my attention it kept me interested throughout. I liked the broad overview of why you did it, how you chose your stack, and how it all came together. Nicely done!

The audience feedback was a nice touch to this presentation. Instead of just a dry checklist of features, it came alive and kept my interest despite being afternoon nap time for me :)

Great job!

I always enjoy a talk when it is obvious that the presenter has intimate knowledge of a topic, as well as extensive experience with it. It was clear that Beau had both. I use Composer quite a bit and I found several interesting new tidbits I had not come across before.

This talk was a bit different than I expected. I was expecting code techniques and tools instead of management and team-building techniques. Despite that, I found it a useful discussion and the presentation was organized, interesting and thorough.

+1 for audience feedback. I too like the lite slides approach. Maybe the next step for this is to have a more advanced discussion of frameworks with code examples and some pros/cons of their overall philosophy.

Great topic. As a long-time SVN guy and part-time Mercurial guy you've got me seriously thinking about moving.

Very good talk about git

Totally agree w/ Riley on the minimal slide and heavy discussion. The audience feedback was both helpful and a nice shift from the traditional one-way presentation.

While recognizing that picking a handful out of the dozens (hundreds) of frameworks must have been a difficult prospect I still think it would have been nice to see more variety. Laraval/Symfony/Silex all share some fairly similar concepts and could have been _almost_ compiled into one 'slide' with a brief point or two on the different use cases (IMO), while their are other ones (like Kohana and Phalcon) that seem different enough to pique some interesting discussions. Just a thought :P

An interesting and well-presented topic. A bit surprised at how focused the discussion was, could see how this would be helpful if you were debugging composer version issues or building your own packages. Never faced with either task, though, it was hard to see how practical the information was.

I liked some of the topics like cherry picking and rebasing that I wasn't particularly familiar with. Definitely a great speaker, kept me engaged the entire time.