Midwest PHP 2015
14 - 15 Mar 2015 at University of St Thomas

I came into this talk late because I spent the first of the two hours in a different talk, so unfortunately I think I missed the "actually quite easy" part. What I saw I clearly missed the context to understand. I am glad the slides where posted so I can catch at least some of what I missed. That being said Elizabeth was a very engaging speaker and it was very exciting to meet someone so directly involved with the PHP language development itself. I would definitely attend another talk with Elizabeth.

There were plenty of good points that even someone not freelancing can implement. Very interesting ideas about managing your work at home and how to keep your work and consumption separate.

I was planning on skipping out early but I'm glad I didn't. This was my favorite talk this year! Had the most practical applicable advice of any talk I went to, and these are things I plan on looking into and possibly implementing ideas from in the near future!

Like at least some of the other men in the room, my interest in this talk stemmed from the fact that I have a daughter who's future I care dearly about. Beth started the talk off with some great examples of where she has personally experienced this issue. Ofter the slides the panel began a discussion with the audience about the issue of sexism in the development community. It was a good discussion and I am glad some people are having it, unfortunately it is a much larger conversation than can be had in just a half hour. I hope to see more people carrying this flag throughout this and all other fields of work and walks of life. Gary raised a fantastic point that a very small thing that we can all do in support of this cause is the boycott any event that does not include a code of conduct. I would definitely attend another talk about this subject and found all three of the panel members compelling presenters.

Love it. This is why I LOVE open source software and the communities that it brings about. Everything about this rang so true to me and was very encouraging towards learning more and getting outside of your comfort zone. As someone who owes his livelihood to open source software and ideals, I feel very strongly about this topic and was glad to see it represented so well here.

There was a lot of information presented here and a certain degree of abstraction was required. Perhaps too abstract in some places, but definitely resonated with me as I've experienced working my way through multi-thousand-line procedural codebases.

As someone familiar with micro-frameworks in general I would have liked more information specifically about Silex's APIs. More structure would have helped communicate this better, I think.

A lot of the advice was not specific to Wordpress and could easily be applied to any (PHP or other) web application. Clearly Zack has experience with running a web application at scale and communicated clearly what he has learned in the process.

Quite a bit of information for people not knowing how to start scaling Magento. Q & A afterward was very useful.

One of the best soft talks I've ever been at. As a person with mentor/apprentice-like relationships this helped clarified some bits of the process that I've been missing and could use to improve my success both as a mentor and as a student.