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

Patrick gave great information for anyone looking to add CI to their dev workflow. Looking forward to putting this new knowledge to use!

In this talk "Container Coding", a term I have never heard before, is used as a way of describing a group of design patterns which are structural in nature and serve to create greater separation of concerns within your application. I was already familiar with most of these concepts but I think Patrick did a good job of summarizing them. Being familiar with the topics already I would have liked more PHP specific examples, but that is just me and wouldn't be for everyone. I would probably attend another talk by Patrick in the future.

This talk wasn't the most informative, but I did enjoy it as I work with Magento on a daily basis (development, maintain, server admin, etc...). We were able to pick Matt's brain at the end a bit and he seems open to future communications - so I will be keeping his card handy. He does seem to be a pro when it comes to Magento development and hosting.

I enjoyed the talk. I have zero direct experience with REST api, so I was hoping to learn a little more about it - but that is ok, the talk helped me appreciate what can be used for and the importance of following the standards (once I delve into it...)

Excellent talk, well spoken and very informative. Experience is speaking from high traffic site/s but useful for all levels of Wordpress sites.

Great talk. I really liked how you approached it from both sides, and laid out how it should work for both parties. To me that's made it better. I liked the addition of the resources slide so that we can go to some follow/homework.

Nice overview of Silex. I've used Silex before, but there were some really nice ideas in here on how to structure an application, and some examples of things that I had struggled with in the past. It's nice to have some code samples now!

Eryn was a fantastic speaker and humorous. The subject matter rings true to me as a developer and was incredibly well presented. Lots of takeaways for me to communicate to my colleagues at home.

Nice work. I though that the talk was a nice overview on ideas of how to deal with really bad stuff in an organized way. We definitely have a couple of takeaways, and will be working to implement them soon.

Based on the topic, I was expecting to hear more about ES6 features than I did. There was too much interjection of other libraries and language features to make that clear. I don't want to rate this poorly as a "JS talk at a PHP conf" because to be clear I'm infatuated with JS. But a poor presentation reflects negatively on the subject and reinforces the meme.

It was clear that Nate is very knowledgeable and I'm sure would have made a great presentation if there had been more structure and clarity.