Midwest PHP 2015
14 - 15 Mar 2015
at University of St Thomas
Talk comments
This was a great topic for promoting awareness for this increasingly important subject. I would have loved to see more action items for the attendees and even more stories. Keep up the good work.
Some gems but overall seemed rather vague and non-cohesive.
Fun, energetic presentation about how to improve your software by improving your team (communication, empathy, involvement, ownership).
My favorite 3 elements:
- Culture of "it's okay to break things, important and okay to tell people about it." - low blame.
- Triage plans, esp. communications - e.g. who to tell what when; what conditions to shut off Prod. Record the console commands. if-then's.
- Checklists full of yesterday's mistakes to not make again.
Very good broad application - language/platform agnostic, but still technical.
Not worth demoting by a star, (I would do 4.5 stars if it was available) but a drawback for me was when it took a while for the poo to actually start hitting this fan in the examples in the talk. The first portion seemed to be more about "how to plan well", "how to avoid having poo hit the fan in the first place" -- which is fine, but missed the emotional hook. The first 10-15 minutes I toyed with hopping talks to Services Architechture; whereas by 50 minutes in I was quite glad I had stayed, after you had gotten to the real "poo hitting the fan" portion. The 5 why's and client-politics stuff, fitting for when there's a "slower problem" was valuable, but perhaps wasn't well-represented by the intensity of the title/subtitle.
This is an important talk, well delivered, and the projector-screen tech failure at the outset was indeed fitting. :-)
Good coverage of how to get up & running with Silex, via live code / demo.
Looking forward to making use of Silex in a place or 2 where Symfony's opinionated approach made it a poor fit. Thank you!
Excellent and well-designed. Great practical advice.
Well done. Very positive message about making yourself a better developer by being a better member of the team.
Great talk on a great topic!
Amy is a great speaker, offers a great insight from her own experience as a developer, and nails a lot of points right on the head and opens up a lot of opportunity to think and discuss!
Thank you!!!
Mike took us on a pragmatic journey from procedural code, to OOP, to well-designed OOP, to SOA. It was comfortably paced and covered a lot of material in a way that was just deep enough to teach the concept without throwing people in the deep end. I did feel like it ended a little too abruptly—without tying things back together—and could have gone a little deeper into the web services topics, considering the name of the talk. Overall though, I found this enjoyable, engaging, and highly-informative.
This talk seemed very well-prepared and flowed very nicely. Beth's passion for the subject shined through, and she provided many good insights. There were great discussions at the end too. I would have liked to hear about more about specific success stories from the community related to mentoring.